Ex lax story from the past

I came across this ex lax story (). It brings back memories of the urgency you felt when phenolphthalein was the main ingredient. Hope you like it.

https://forum.songfacts.com/index.php?/topic/749-ex-lax-how-was-i-to-know/

Simply too funny!

Weird odd crazy funny. I bet he learned. The l lax did it's "job". I am laughing like crazy. Good story.

Laxatives with phenolphthalein like chocolate Ex-Lax or Feen-a-mint gum were widely used by many mothers when I was growing up in the late 1940's through 70's. They were easy to get kids to take and were much more powerful than the Senna laxatives used today. My mother had been giving me Castoria Children's Laxative until I turned 8 and I balked at taking what I considered a "little kid's laxative", and I asked her to give me Feen-a-mint gum instead which is what she used herself and a lot of my friends' mothers gave to them. I got dosed fairly often with Feen-a-mint whenever I missed a daily bowel movement, was acting cranky or irritable, didn't eat all the food on my plate at suppertime or had eaten a lot of candy or "junk food". That continued until I turned 13 and she increased the dose from 1 piece to 2 which gave me severe cramps before it worked. My aunt had had the same problem with my older cousin when she started giving him the adult dose of Feen-a-mint at 13 and she suggested my mother try 2 pieces of Ex-Lax instead which seemed to work just as well on my cousin without causing as much cramping, so Ex-Lax is what my mother gave me during my teens and 20's.