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What happens if by accident that you eat stool? what happens to the body or the body system? please help.
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Most likely nothing: Besides the psychological effect that eating stools can cause, unless they are infected, nothing will happen. If they are infected, you may contract hepatitis, cholera, and other gastrointestinal infections. Coprophagia is the consumption of feces, normally in certain animal species, not common in humans.
Answered 5/8/2016
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