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Right - is there such a phenomenon, and what is it due to?
Flamin' kids and their random questions!
Google is not my friend tonight
PS can bile in the stomach lead to death - Can find anything reliable that says yes.
By "water on the heart", do you mean pericardial effusion? It's where the bag that srrounds the heart (the pericardium), fills with fluid rather like a blister. It can cause very severe problems, but can also easily be drained & dealt with.
As for bile ... no idea!
No idea about water on the heart but I do know that bile is produced in the bile duct which connects the liver and if these ducts become clogged up with bile then it can cause liver failure.
At least I thought that was how it works.
But they can put medical balloons of sorts in the ducts to keep them open.
'Water on the heart' is probably a pericardial effusion, as eveina has said.
And bile in the stomach is ok - most of us will have had the charming experience of vomiting it up at some point during a bug.The only reason I can think of that it would kill you is if it were there because of obstruction of the bowel that wasn't treated.
Thanks all! I can always rely on the knowledge of hitched