Remembering Irrfan Khan on his Birth anniversary...
Through cinema, he used to bring films among people on subjects on which hardly any actor today would like to talk wholeheartedly. Irfan Khan's passing away at the age of 53 was not a coincidence, he was suffering from a colon infection.
What is a colon?Before understanding colon infection, let us understand what is 'colon'? Actually, the colon is the largest part of the large intestine. That's why it is sometimes called the large intestine. The colon is the most important part of the digestive system which looks like a tube of a bicycle wheel. One part of it is attached to the small intestine and the other to the rectum. The function of this colon is to remove partially digested food, nutrients and electrolytes.What is a colon infection?Colon infection is a problem of infection in the rectum. If understood in simple language, the infection in the colon is caused by eating such food which the digestion system has to work very hard to digest. In such a situation, the food which is not digested properly in our body starts accumulating in the waste food colon. Due to the accumulation of waste food in the colon for a long time, it also starts rotting and swelling starts in the inner layer of the colon.