When Stool Turns to Stone: Manually Disimpact Again or Buy Coca Cola? Fecalomas, Risks, and Treatments

Fecalomas—rock‑hard impacted stool that cause obstruction, stercoral colitis, perforation, and even death—most often in immobile elderly patients or those on opioids. Standard treatments include aggressive bowel regimens, enemas, manual disimpaction, endoscopic fragmentation, and surgery.

There are also case reports of using Coca‑Cola enemas to soften and reduce fecalomas when conventional measures failed.