Enemas for gas and diarrhea?

Have you taken, or been given, enemas for gas and diarrhea? Just water or something inside the solution?

As you probably have read me write that my mother was a nurse by training. During my childhood years, I used to read her nursing text books. I remember what the enema solution was for excess gas. It was a water and alum solution. There was one for diarrhea but I forget what it was. Probably the wildest one was for intestinal worms that actually included a little ternpintine.

For gas, I use a soapsuds solution. That seems to work well. I have tried saline enemas for diarrhea. Not much fun but sometimes helpful if the cause was some bad food.

When my siblings and I were growing up, if we had a lot of gas or got diarrhea. We received at least one, sometimes two, salt and baking soda enemas.

That "Minnesota Doctor" really advocated those bowel flushing enemas for many digestive issues. They work very well and are quite simple. Besides, there are some other beneficial effects!

Years ago while helping at a shelter, caught the norovirus, I didn't have the projectal vomiting like others but did have the diarrhea. I couldn't wait to get home and get a nice enema. The cleanout put a stop to the diarrhea. Speaking of, got filled 30 minutes ago, still emptying.

If I'm experiencing a lot of gas, it usually means that I need an enema. It seems that sometimes when I'm backed up or 'blocked' back there I can still get some gas to pass by some of the stool, and passing the gas does relieve some of the pressure. I always hope that when I'm constipated the gas will eventually push hard enough to move the stool too if I try, but that works maybe 50% of the time. When I was younger, passing the gas allowed me to hold it back a while longer. But trying to hold back a bm but allowing gas to pass would often cause some soiling of my underpants.

As for diarrhea, I so rarely get that that I almost welcome it. I don't recall ever getting an enema or giving myself one for diarrhea.

I have taken enemas for gas, I usually use a soap solution and it helps me feel much better. When I take an enema because of excessive gas it can be difficult to take due to the water pushing the gas higher up in my intestines. I have noticed that if I use a closed top bag and if the nozzle is in the right position I can feel and hear the gas exit through the enema tubing into the bag and I feel the gas pressure decreasing in my intestines, and after the gas stops going into the enema tube and bag, there is a sudden increase of water flowing into me. It feels like my intestines are sucking the water out of the bag and the water rapidly flows into me. I enjoy the sensation when it happens . Open top bags usually don’t have the same effect on me.

I have had small emollient enemas for diarrhea and herbal tea mint enemas are great for gas.I have tried alum enemas also.