Otis Boykin. An ink drawing of Otis Boykin from a U.S. DEPARTMENT of Energy biographical sketch of 1979. Otis Bobby Boykin (August 29, 1920, Dallas, Texas â March 13, 1982, Chicago, Illinois) was an American inventor and engineer.
Without any fluids (either as sips, ice chips or intravenously) people with a complete bowel obstruction most often survive a week or two. Sometimes itâs only a few days, sometimes as long as three weeks. With fluids, survival time may be extended by a few weeks or even a month or two. With a bowel obstruction, things may go better than expected, but itâs important to prepare for sudden, unexpected changes.
The human body can go for an extended period of time without food (but not without water), especially if you have some body fat. People have gone for two weeks or more. Note that is not safe, and it is not an effective method of dieting.here's a thing called the rule of three. Three minutes without air, three days without water and/or three weeks without food. That's an approximation for how long it takes fo â¦ r your body to shut down.