There ARE people who don’t poop. An adult who has never pooped is theoretically possible but would be very rare. There are numerous conditions which can effect a baby pooping- from being born without formed nerve cells in the digestive tract (such as Hirschsprung's disease) to having perforated bowels at birth and requiring colostomy, and more. While many of these are treatable or reversible- that’s not always the case. And it IS possible for a baby to be born with a condition preventing pooping, and to receive a lifelong stoma bag, and thusly never “poop” even though they do produce waste. But if you’ve ever met a newborn baby- you’ve probably met a person who hasn’t pooped. So we can dispel this one pretty easily.
Well I don't know, first of all a baby "poops" in the uterus, even though it hasn't the same compositon as regular poop -that's why I hesitated to mention babies and fetuses and settled for "people who haven't been born yet-.
Second of all, when the diseases you mention are treated, the patients end up taking shits. If they don't get treated... When my grandma and granpa moved in together (I swear I'm going somewhere with this), my grandma was too embarrassed to poop for 3 weeks, after which the pain and vomiting were so intense she went to see a physician who basically told her "congrats, you managed to poison your blood by not pooping".
Unless your adult is a clone and thus ages very rapidly, I think they either poop or die.
You make good points- but not if they have a stoma and collection bag. They would not need to “poop” as in the act of pooping- they would produce feces- but would not “poop” it out- it would be collected. Though I suppose that could be seen as semantics such as with our baby in the uterus. Babies in the uterus create meconium- medically they aren’t said to “poop” until after they are born, and in fact, it is possible for them to pass the meconium into the fluid in the uterus- but it is common for babies to not do so at all, instead only passing the meconium after they are born. So a baby which did not pass meconium in the uterus, and born with a condition preventing pooping, and then given a stoma which they keep for life- could be said to never have pooped even as an adult. But a newborn baby, or even babies between 12-48 hours old, might never have passed meconium in the uterus and might in fact not have taken their “first poop” yet- but WILL poop. So I would still say it is...
... possible that one could meet a baby that hasn’t “pooped.” But to your point- it certainly does depend on some factors (some of which we may not be able to readily and conclusively know or prove) and possibly some definitions such as what we mean by “poop.” For example- I’ve gone more than a year without “eating” in the sense that for that time I consumed no foods or liquids other than water by mouth. But I obviously was getting nutrition as I would have died otherwise. So if we ask the longest a person has gone without food and I say “over a year..” we’d have to define what we mean by “gone without food.”
"it is common for babies to not do so at all, instead only passing the meconium after they are born" I didn't know that! Thought they all happily meconiumed in the uterus. As for the semantics I reckon I was pushing it a bit, it is rather tricky. (also, whether it was by choice or necessity, your "not-really-eating" year sounds heavy, hope you're ok)
Second of all, when the diseases you mention are treated, the patients end up taking shits. If they don't get treated... When my grandma and granpa moved in together (I swear I'm going somewhere with this), my grandma was too embarrassed to poop for 3 weeks, after which the pain and vomiting were so intense she went to see a physician who basically told her "congrats, you managed to poison your blood by not pooping".
Unless your adult is a clone and thus ages very rapidly, I think they either poop or die.