Combination Bags

Back in the seventies into the eighties I had a number of the smooth red rubber combination “hot water bottle”, douche and enema kits😍Once I learned how to fill them to 4 quarts, sometimes I’d put the bag on my dresser and let gravity (and the pressure of the overstretched bag) do it’s fun😜How many of my fellow enemates would like to share their time with a combo bag??

I love a combo bag for that exact reason…the ability to overfill it!

I haven't seen a combo bag in a lot of years and I've never owned one (although my present bag could be one if the screw-in stopper had been included). I expect it's because applying warmth to an injury or ache is far more easily accomplished these days via heating pad or microwaved rice/buckwheat pad.

I have a heating pad on my back as we speak. My crime? Looking under the bed for my shoe.

You can overfill any bag that isn't open-top, of course. I don't do it often, but I have, many times, just by placing it below the source of water, like a full sink, and putting the nozzle into the water. Sometimes you have to jump-start it a little by raising the bag to drain a little into the sink before you lower it.

For me there is nothing magical about a combination bag. My wife bought one before we were married and it has provided decades of value, mostly for enemas but on occasion as a hot water bottle. Several years ago we got one of those silicone open top bags that I think is just marvelous. You can see the water level and it has a check valve to prevent back flow. If there any downsides to it I would have to say that a red rubber bag is far more nostalgic plus the silicone has not odor to it. Either way, both give very satisfactory enemas.

I like to see the soapsuds dripping down the sides of the red open top bag.

I have a combination bag. Long ago I tried open-top and it's too easy to topple and then you have a mess.

Lived and learned. I would use an open top bag to fill a closed top bag. Connect the two bags together to gravity fill. Clamp off the hose on the closed top, attach nozzle, done. One day I had not used all the closed top leaving it flat but still having liquid. Decided to have another. Connected two bags together, pitcher filled the open top. Opened clamp, left the bathroom. I heard a pop and then the sound of water splashing. The pressure was to much, splitting the seem on my favorite bag. Water soap and salt covered the apartment bath floor. It was such a mess to clean up. Two + quarts isn't a lot of water until you are using towels to soak it up. Wash clothes, bath sheets, everything to contain the flood! Had to carry the dripping mess of towels to the laundry room down a flight of stairs to wash. Still fill my closed top this way, just a lot more careful.

I've got a combination bag that was my grandmother's but I have to admit that even though it's nostalgic to hang that bag up and watch it go flat, I too like to see the suds cresting the top of the open top bags. I just purchased a new Rexall Kantleek open top 2qt bag and i'm LOVING it. I can't get enough of it. But also hanging up is a 4qt open top that I like to use when i'm mostly empty and 2 quarts just doesn't seem to be doing it. Step up to 2.5, then 3, then 3.5, and try to squeeze in 4. I've only gotten to 4qts. twice so far. Practice! 😉

Mymoms enemas was a two quart BF Goodrich open top enema. After that developed wrinkles and tears in the rubber I reluctantly had to purchase a new enema bag and bought a 2 quart Duvall combination enema. I discovered the"gravity fill" method where you fill the bag normally and close the clamp. Then I place the bag on the floor, place the nozzle in a container of soapy water on the counter and open the clamp. Gravity will dram more soapy water from the container down into the enema bag and I am able to add a little more than a quart of additional soapy water!

I have had a few combination bags. I still have an old red 2 quart combo. Once I purchased the two open top 4 quart bags I have only used them. For the last couple of years I only use the 4 quart open top silicone bag. I love it. Best bag I have ever owned. Wish I had gotten it 40 years ago.