Risks of rectal feeding and rehydration include damage to the rectum and colon, triggering bowels to empty, food rotting inside the recipient's digestive tract, and an inflamed or prolapsed rectum from carless insertion of the feeding tube.
Mohammed was also subjected to rectal rehydration "without a determination of medical need".
The CIA administered rectal rehydration to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed "without a determination of medical need" and justified "rectal fluid resuscitation" of Abu Zubaydah because he "partially refus[ed] liquids".
Here are some of the techniques known to have been used, and the effects on detainees: The torture report contains new information on the CIA's use of rectal feeding and rehydration.
A milestone report by the Senate intelligence committee revealed that the use of torture in secret prisons run by the CIA was even more extreme than previously exposed, and included "rectal rehydration" and "rectal feeding", sleep deprivation lasting almost a week and threats to the families of the detainees.
The CIA's chief of interrogations characterized rectal rehydration as a method of "total control" over detainees, and an unnamed person said the procedure helped to "clear a person's head".
CIA operatives subjected at least five detainees to what they called "rectal rehydration and feeding".
They also provided generators for water pumps, hygiene kits, high-energy biscuits, rehydration kits and water purification tablets.
Farmers and fishermen in Grand'Anse, a verdant department that was hit badly by a recent hurricane, have seen sales plummet as customers spurn local foodstuffs.Potential investors are also being scared off by cholera, even though it can be easily prevented with good sanitation and clean drinking water (or treated by oral rehydration).
Health workers have distributed chlorine drops and rehydration salts in Granma province.
Simple oral rehydration salts keep children suffering from diarrhoea alive.
