Can Overuse Of Cocaine Lead To Bowel Incontinence?

Posted on Wed, 1 Jul 2015

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Wed, 1 Jul 2015 Answered on

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Question : Can doing too much cocaine, and not eating for a day cause anal leakage?

Answered by Dr. Divakara (1 hour later)

Brief Answer:
Yes Cocaine addiction can cause Anal leakage.

Detailed Answer:
Hi

Greetings from Dr Divakara P
Thanks for posting your query.

Yes Bowel incontinence is one of the side effects of long term cocaine use.

The best solution is to consult a psychiatrist and go for deaddiction. Till then for some relief one needs to avoid liquid food and eat more of meat .

Hope this information was useful to you.
Any clarification feel free to ask.

Regards.

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar

Follow up: Dr. Divakara (33 minutes later)

If I was a infrequent user, but did a lot one night, then in two days, after one day of not eating I had anal discharge of a yellow color, then five minutes later diarrhea is that due to cocaine use? Or common?

Answered by Dr. Divakara (5 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Could be due to gut infection.

Detailed Answer:
Hi

In that case it seems like Anal leakage is due to gut infection rather than Cocaine.

But still gut infection doesn't always cause anal leakage , so a contribution from cocaine use may be considered in causing anal leakage.

I would recommend a test called Stool routine to check for any gut infection if diarrhoea is still present.

Hope this information was useful to you.
Any clarification feel free to ask.

Regards.

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar