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   A British teenager's toilet phobia appears to have cost her her   
   life. The 16-year-old girl suffered a heart attack after going   
   without a bowel movement for eight weeks, reports the   
   Independent.   
      
   Authorities say her chronic constipation resulted in distended   
   organs and a compressed chest cavity, factors that contributed   
   to her cardiac arrest. An autopsy revealed a "massive extension   
   of the large bowel," says the pathologist who examined Emily   
   Titterington.   
      
   It was "like nothing I have seen before—it was dramatic." The   
   teen was mildly autistic and had a lifelong history of what   
   Medical Daily calls "stool withholding," a behavior that usually   
   passes after early childhood.   
      
   Emily's mother said she had been pleading with her daughter   
   before her death to have a thorough medical exam, but the teen   
   refused. The family doctor had prescribed laxatives but   
   acknowledges that he didn't examine the girl's abdomen.   
      
   A paramedic who responded to Emily's home the night of her   
   death—it was actually the second call by her parents that   
   night—found the teen's abdomen "grossly extended." One doctor   
   not involved with the case tells People that "there's more than   
   meets the eye here." The teen "probably had some electrolyte   
   abnormality, or a cardiac arrhythmia from something else." (An   
   author has advice on how the rest of us can poop better.)   
      
   http://www.foxnews.com/health/2015/07/06/teen-toilet-phobia-   
   apparently-kills-   
   her/?intcmp=ob_article_footer_text&intcmp=obnetwork   
      
        
      
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