This man who had been vomiting blood all day was kept alive by rectal rehydration until medical help came more than 24 hours later. Even better you can use makeshift equipment to do the job if need be. You can always make your equipment up with a little creativity.
As Mike Reed demonstrates below, your creativity can take you places. You can actually self-administer fluid on yourself if you find yourself alone and you are nauseous or you run out of water but you need water….
You will have to adapt and give yourself the only available fluid via your rectum your back passage. Camelbak rehydration kit is a very popular brand used and trusted by keen survivalists. Available here on Amazon. Here is a cheaper brand on Amazon. If you have oral rehydration solution all the better. The glucose and the sodium in oral rehydration solution are a perfect mix for optimum absorption.
Probably one of the simplest things you can perform on a victim or yourself to save a life until help professional help arrives. Step 1. Step 2. This helps fluid to stream into the bowel segment we call the sigmoid colon easily. That pooling of the fluid in the sigmoid colon will help the onward flow upstream. Step 3. Wash your hands and don a pair of gloves if available after drying your hands, otherwise you will struggle to get the gloves on properly.
Step 4. Add a lubricant to the end of the end of the tube that will be inserted into the bum hole. Try not use too much lubricant as this could be counter-productive. Step 5. If the mouth piece of the drinking tube is detachable, then go ahead and detach the mouth piece. You will now have to plug the end of the tube with your finger to avoid spilling and losing the fluid you intend to rehydrate the victim with.
Step 6. An insertion length of about 15cm is just good enough. Insert gently though. The tube will glide in easily. Step 7. This will prevent the tube slipping out accidentally. Step 9. Now hang the reservoir onto a tree branch or anything to give it some height. Having the fluid bag the reservoir in an elevated position helps the fluid to drip into the rectum aided by gravity.
Once you have hung the bag, just leave it alone and let it do its thing. Do not attempt to rush the rate of flow. Just let gravity take over. The victim will thank you for it. This is what the Robertson family did in to keep themselves alive while they drifted 38 days at sea after their sailboat sank miles West of the Galapagos Islands.
Their only source of water was from rain, which they collected using a rubber canopy and funneling it into containers. Fearing to waste even a drop, Lynn, the mother and a nurse, used her her medical training to come up with the idea of using the contaminated yellow water as a Murphy Drip. This worked because the rectal membrane, let the water pass into the body while keeping out the salt and rubber contaminates — Basically, this is just how food passes into the digestive system and is dried into feces.
Yes, in his defense, Grylls simply mirrored what Lynn Robertson did. In his survival scenarion, his water was supposedly contaminated by guano, not seawater.
However, because his medical explanation of what he was doing was so limited, he inadvertently left many viewers with the impression that a survivor could use purely seawater as an hydration enema. Based on what I have so far discussed, using a seawater enema at first blush would seem to make sense.
However, as Jake explained, introducing normally concentrated seawater into your rectum and colon as opposed to rainwater that is just contaminated by relatively trace amounts of dried salt from runoff would actually have the same effects as drinking it. And, he adds, would definitely be far less comfortable. To be fair, there has been peer reviewed scientific research which strongly suggests that seawater can, in fact, be safely used in a survival situation.
However, the research scenario was highly controlled, and, thus, not genuinely representative of an actual survival situation. Sure, Bear Grylls. In the desert. Anway, the clip of Bear Gyrlls giving himself an enema for hydration is a key marketing tool for the show apparently, so it is now available on-line and after the jump. This is it! What else is going to happen? It is all downhill after the enema. Enema after the jump. Why is Bear Grylls water so dirty?
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