Sometimes I suppose it can, but I wouldn't try it unsupervised because if it gets worse instead of better because there is infection or the wall is weakened and intestinal
can be catastrophic. I ended up having surgery to remove part of my sigmoid colon because all of the episodes scarred it so bad I was starting to stricture. God bless and hope this helps. We had a friend who was not so lucky. Not trying to scare you but being real.