How do you sanitise the area to prevent infection? If you get surgery on the rusty sheriff’s badge, how does it not get infected the next time you lay an otter egg? Do they connect a colostomy bag in that case, to give it time to heal?

You can get a lethal infection from a paper cut if the right (see: wrong) bacteria get into it. Short of piledriving a snooker cue coated with hand sanitiser, I don’t know how a filthy corridor of doom like the excretory system can be kept free of bacteria after Dr. Bussy Torn MD has been rooting around in there with his weed whacker.

Surely antibiotics aren’t enough on their own to prevent infection? Anywhere else in the body, sure, but the chucklet waterpark is like ground zero for biological malevolence. It would be like wearing nothing but a steel showercap to keep mosquitos from biting you.

What dark arts are surgeons invoking here?

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    You get antibiotics and they wash you quite thoroughly during surgery. I think it’s a combo of 3 antibiotics? You’re also not going to eat for a day or two and you’ll drink something to empty your colon. It’s not exactly a pleasant lead up

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      Movieprep or kleenprep I’m guessing. Basically it’s a powder you mix with water and then you take it every hour during the night. It’s like a heavy duty laxative, I’ve had to use it for endoscopies as I’ve ulcerative colitis. And it does totally clean you out.