The Titanic didn’t sink the way you think.
The story isn’t just about an iceberg—it’s about human error, ignored warnings, and catastrophic decisions.
Here’s the truth about what really sank the ‘unsinkable’ ship:
QUICK MEDICAL EXPLANATION:
What this person in the video has is a medical condition called inflammatory bowel disease (broadly divided into crohns disease and ulcerative colitis).
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is when the inner parts and internal linings of your intestines get inflamed, swollen, painful and sometimes they could develop ulcers (internal wounds) and also bleed. The bleeding tend to come out as unexplained blood in your stools when you defecate.
Generally, the treatment is with medications to try and reduce the inflammation and hope that the bowels will heal and recover.
Crohn’s disease tends to affect more of the small intestine while ulcerative colitis tend to affect the large intestine especially the colon and rectum.
A little bit of biology:
When you eat, you chew in your mouth, swallow through your throat, it goes into your stomach, then goes into your small intestine for absorption and breakdown; then it goes into your large intestines for processing into waste products and expulsion from your body as feces. See the attached pictures I’ve put here. But pls note that this is very simplified explanation. It’s a bit more complicated.
Now your colon is the part of your large intestine where your feces are formed and moved into your rectum for temporary storage. The rectum is the last part of the large intestine before the feces is expelled through the anus. This is why any inflammation or bleeding in the colon or rectum will tend to show as blood in your feces when you go to toilet.
Now sometimes the damage done to the bowels (or intestine) by the IBD condition can be so severe and extreme that the only way to save the persons life and stop them from bleeding to death is to cut out the diseased intestines and attach an artificial exit for that person to pass out their poo and feces. That artificial exit for the person to be able to defecate and pass out feces is called a “stoma bag” and the surgery to do this opening is called a “colostomy” (meaning an opening into the colon). If the opening is in the small intestine, it is sometimes called an “ileostomy” (meaning an opening into the ileum of the small intestine)). The word “-stomy” means opening.
The stoma bag is the white detachable bag the man applies on himself in the video. The red bulging tissue on his abdomen/tummy which you see is the remaining cut end of his intestine which has been surgically removed.
So why do people have IBD?
Frankly we don’t know for sure.
Medical research suggests that it could be because of genetics, smoking, autoimmune problems (where your body immune system fights itself and destroys itself for no reason), or an imbalance of natural bacteria in the intestines.
Who can get IBD?
It affects men and women equally.
IBD can develop at any age, but is most often diagnosed in people between 15 and 30 years old.
It's more common in black people, white people of European descent and Ashkenazi Jews. For unclear reasons, it is rarer in Asians.
What are the symptoms of IBD?
Recurring persistent diarrhea, weight loss, bloody feces, tiredness, abdominal pain. The symptoms keep coming and going over few weeks and months.
If you know anyone with these symptoms, please kindly get them to see a doctor immediately.
IBD is known to be a risk factor for bowel cancer. So pls don’t ignore the signs and symptoms if you have it. The earlier the detection and medical intervention, the better the quality of life that the person can live afterwards.
I hope you have learnt something very helpful and beneficial tonight from reading this post.
And if you have, please kindly repost and retweet this once you finish reading to help someone else and also to help save someone’s life. You never know who needs to see this.
Thank you.