Warning! Finding Old Enema Equipment

Two days ago I took my dog for a run. We went down through a wooded park near downtown Seattle. Near the center of the park there are several blocked off old paved roads. Car traffic is no longer allowed, but lots of people walk, run and bike though the area. City park crews have been doing some maintenance in the area, cutting and removing brush that is not native, etc. So there were piles of brush and cut green matter along the road side. I almost stopped in my tracks when I noticed carefully placed on top of one of the piles a red open top douche bag. Obviously it had been thrown over the edge and had been hauled up with the cut brush. It was old and you could see signs of rotted leaves on the surface. The hoze and nozzle were missing.

So what is the story behind this find? Why was the hose missing? Who left it in the park? Did they go there to use it? My imagination runs.......

Ron

Was it in salvageable condition? If you went with rubber gloves and a plastic container, put it in there, and then, without taking it out of the container, start by rinsing it off, then work up gradually to hot water with enough bleach that you would need another set of rubber gloves to touch it. Let it set in that bleach-water mixture for several hours, then scrub it down with soap and water and rinse it thoroughly. Leak test it with cold water, and then see if it looks good enough to try, or sell on e-bay!!

If it is salvageable, don't ruin it with excessive bleach, which kills rubber. What pathogenic organisms, other than normal soil bacteria, etc. can it have on it after much time on the ground? Just rinse it off, then soak it for no longer than an hour in a gallon of water with an ounce of bleach. Do be sure there are no deposits sticking to it outside or in. Then dry it thoroughly and hope you have a real find.

IT had been out there for some time. You could see some cracks in the rubber. It's just fund to let your mind wander in think bout all the possibilities leading up to it being discarded in the woods. When I was a kid I could get aroused seeing an enema bag in the window of a drugstore. The feeling is still there.

If it is salvageable, don't ruin it with excessive bleach, which kills rubber. What pathogenic organisms, other than normal soil bacteria, etc. can it have on it after much time on the ground? Just rinse it off, then soak it for no longer than an hour in a gallon of water with an ounce of bleach. Do be sure there are no deposits sticking to it outside or in. Then dry it thoroughly and hope you have a real find.

NO NO NO NO NO!!!!

You DEFINITELY DO NOT want to use something like a enema/douche bag that has been laying around in soil for a time. There are extremely dangerous pathogenic spore and toxin forming bacteria and viruses in soil that bleach will not even begin to affect.

Read this very carefully:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12730707

and this

http://weblife.org/humanure/chapter7_8.html

One soil borne pathogen the previous articles don't mention is clostridium tetani:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clostridium_tetani

To use something that has been sitting out in the brush, for who knows how long, is like playing with fire. Soaking in bleach will kill some of the bacteria but not all. You could be asking for a lot of trouble down the road.

Switchablesuzie knows her stuff. What's the matter with some of you here???? Using an old soiled enama bag laying outside not knowing who or what used it last defies logic. 😮 Some of you are a stitch!

So I'm figuring the OP found this either near Green Lake or someplace similar.

Haven't been in Seattle for 2 years now and man oh man am I starting to miss the place.

Back on topic - the OP is just wondering HOW it got there - I would assume he left it right where he found it...I know I would have.

Considering all things Seattle, there are so many reasons it could have wound up where it was found.

It could have been left over from a fraternity/sorority prank played 20+ years ago...

It could have been some old lady's and when she passed her people went through her things and it got tossed in the trash - and somehow either picked up and tossed (what is it with people who rummage through trash?) or fell off the garbage truck... - so those are the 'normal-ish' possibilities...

Then there's the 'only in Seattle' possibilities - remains of a late night outdoor enema session between a nature loving dom and sub (you choose the sex of each and in Seattle, any combo is possible) - I had a friend who is a female dominatrix - she moved from Bellevue to Lynden about a year before I left the area - couldn't figure out why, but maybe them churchified folks up in Lynden enjoy a good whipping?

Oh let's see what other 'only in Seattle' things I could think up...you know, it is odd that it was left behind...had to have been done long before most of Seattle and surrounding area caught the 'save the Earth/recycling/green' bug...who knew I'd miss that?

While surfing Ebay a while ago, I found listings for used E-bags. That made me ask, "How can you clean and sanitize such a used device?"

The same way they sterilize any other medical equipment!

I don't think a person should use anyone else's enema bag.

Used bags can be easily chemically cleaned and sanitized.

GN

What is the best way to sterilize your equipment?

I wash mine is very warm water and anti bacterial soap.... have been doing it this way for 30 years and it seems to be ok

A 10:1 water/ bleach solution will clean everything right up for you. Totally disinfects.

Does GSE (Grape Seed Extract) actually work to sterilize enema equipment?

What do YOU use (if anything) on/in a bulb syringe?

Household bleach in a plastic pump bottle is good to clean up your enema equipment and around the bathroom. It's very important to kill the bacteria on the enema equipment, let it soak for a while in bleach water. sontimes enemas can get messy. :-\

I also have had good luck with a 10:1 bleach solution using hot water. An enema can is especially easy to clean and dry, though the tubing and nozzle take as much care as with a bag.

Nice to see Sue's comments. Seattle is pretty open to kink, so I agree, it could happen just about anywhere. The find happened on the old closed road in Interlaken (NE end of Capital Hill). The bag was there for about four days and then park crews picked it and the pile of brush it was on up and it was hauled away. Did the users bring in water in jugs? Did they expel there? Who knows. I prefer a bed or massage table or the tub but I do understand that there are those who get off being outside and there is a rush of the possibility of being discovered while outdoors. As for the green thing...there may be a shrub in the park that is just a bit greener this spring.

Ron

All your speculative ideas and wonderment about an old enema bag reminds me of an Alfred Hitchcock episode called, 'The Jar'. Someone finds a large sealed glass jar with strange objects floating in some kind of brine. The jar is on a shelf and folks from the small town would sit around it in the evening making up tales as to what might be inside. Guesses were anything from something magical to the devil himself.

In the spirit of such wild speculation, I'd say it was Marylin Monroe's personal enema bag, now just blowing in the wind, but worth thousands on ebay.

My oddest find was a disposable douche laying in the middle of the road, I had to back up to make sure I wasn't seeing things. The day before a highway patrol had left the road and hit a tree about a 100 yards away. I couldn't help wondering if this had something to do with the wreck.

Just order one online! That's a REALLY bad idea.

On the original thread on the 'odd find', playing with any 'used' equipment of unknown lineage, be it a bag, plug, needle, or anything else, is the most insane, inept, stupid, lame, irresponsible (you get the drift) thing I can think of. Anyone that does this, be they the druggies on the Street or the esteemed audience herewith, deserves the full extent of possible consequences.

Have fun but play safe.