Every Solution Has A Problem Or Laxitaves And Chemicals

I am a klysmaphile and also take enemas!

I am a klysmaphyle and have been so since childhood. However, my main reason for using enemas is for health

reasons. I believe that a clean body is the beginning of a

clear clean, mind. I also believe that foreign, concocted

chemicals have no place in the body. That brings me to

a favorite subject, chemical laxatives. I have long wondered what damage, often called side effects,

these chemicals do to our bodies. That reluctance to use them extends to the little four ounce enemas and oral laxatives that are currently sold in drug stores. If you read the label, on these products,you might become

reluctant too.

On Dec. 12, the C. B. Fleet company issued a leter stating

that Phiso Soda (sodium phosphate) causes nephropathy.

Here is a product designed to make you poop but then it

destroys your kidneys and leaves you feeling miserable

for days. The following is a quote from that letter.

"The purpouse of this letter is to inform you that effective Dec. 12, 2008, C. B. Fleet Company, Inc. ("C.B.

Fleet") ceased distribution and initiated a voluntary

recall of the following oral sodium phosphates solution

products ("OSP products") which have been available over

the counter for bowel cleansing prior to colonoscopy and

other procedures:

Fleet Phospho-Soda Oral Saline Laxitive

Fleet Phospho-Soda EZ-PREP Bowel Cleansing System

Generally, I prefer not to take unnecessary risks with my health and have used plain tap water enemas for over 50

years. Oft times the older, simpler remedies are the best.

Please comment.

73

Bill/k2mmw

When I use fleet enema I usually suplement myself with well absorbable potassium and magnesium. It really soothes the “fleet afterglow”. To be honest I switched to adding glycerine to water as a very powerful enema, and that fulfills my carvings for good cramping session. Little health benefits, but I make it only on special occasions.

If you have trouble pooing, a simple bulb full of warm tap water is usually enough to get things moving within 15 minutes or so. An 8 Oz adult rectal syringe costs under $10 and will last for decades. If you need more poo power, add some soap or glycerin. And the longer you hold it, the greater the laxative effect.

Couldn't agree more about chemical laxatives. Always amazed at the selection in drugstores today, and can only imagine the profits they generate. Like many here I was raised on the bulb and the bag. You won't find any laxatives in my house.

@redbulb

While there is a vast array of laxatives on sale today, if you look at the ingredients there are really very few:

Stimulants:

Senna, Bisacodyl (Senokot, ExLax; Dulcolax)

Osmotics:

Magnesium hydroxide (MoM)

Poo Softeners:

Dioctylsodium, PEG (Colace; Miralax)

Fiber:

Psyllium, other (Metamucil; Benefiber)

Whit these in mind, you can choose if you want something that makes you push the poo out, softens and pushes, just softens, or bulks up your poo. If you want a combined effect, such as in pushing and softening, you can combine Senokot and Miralax.

There are prepared combinations also:

Senokot S is senna plus colace. It pushes and softens some.

Perdiem is senna plus fiber. It pushes and makes large poos.

My preference is senna and Miralax because the pushing and softening can be individually adjusted to the effect desired. The senna dosage controls the amount of push, from a very gentle reminder hint to gotta go… NOW! The Miralax dose controls the softening from a bit of softening to pooing soup.

In swallowing a good dose of castor oil you will never have a problem and you will have a good and a very effective bowel cleansing.

@complete_bowel_cleansing

My bad. I forgot to include Castor Oil in the Stimulant category. It obviously make a person push strongly and poo, big time.

@Sean

But don't forget to take your dose castor oil in a comfortable manner: Early in the morning, not having breakfasted, take 1 oz (= 30 ml) in your mouth and mix this there with your saliva before swallowing this one. In this manner castor oil will lose its bad taste and high viscosity and will no more irritate the mucosa of your stomach.

I totally agree with you k2mmw (Bill) in that ever since a small girl, I was given twice a week plain water enemas every Wednesday and Saturday even though not needed for constipation but rather for preventative health reasons. I found out the other benefits as I entered my teen years but to tell the truth I felt something special from them early on. Only on rare occasions was Ivory soap solution used. I was not aware of the Fleet issue brought up but did notice removal of the sodium phosphate type. Thank you for letting us know. The health benefits from enemas seem to have worked well for me, my husband, my mom and and dad as none of us have hardly ever not felt well and stay away from all types of meds. Denise

@Sean - Thanks for the nutshell rundown on laxatives. Isa and I use a variety, so that our bodies do not become resistant to any one laxative, requiring larger doses for results. Mom gave all for of us kids Fletcher's Castoria every night at bedtime to “keep us regular”. As a result, I think I could drink a bottle of the stuff and get nothing except a lingering horrible after taste. Nowadays, Isa and I DO depend on castor oil when we are starting a cleanout weekend. It is like the atomic bomb of laxatives! The timing varies from but both of us know that it works on us in 4-6 hours. We take 4 tbsp emulsified in orange juice at bedtime Friday before our cleanout weekend. We then diaper up, just in case. (Usually, our bodies hold until dawn, but sometimes we wake to messy diapers.) Nothing except enemas beats castor oil for for a fast, thorough BM. For our enemas, we usually dissolve Ivory soap in the water until it is milky. We also enjoy Dr. Bronner's peppermint for the cool tingle at our “exits” as we release, plus the pleasant fragrance masking the odor of our released poop.

@Soapy4me

Taking Castor Oil at bedtime just invites accidents. In fact, I've seen comments in old medical books that it should not be given at bedtime for the obvious reason… the time from first mild urge to accident can be seconds. It also works best, taken on an empty stomach first thing in the morning.

Fletcher's Castoria was simply senna syrup plus stuff to mask the flavor so kids would take it. Depending on dose and individual response, it would cause a mild hint to poo to a complete, very urgent cleanout.

When I got a large volume, soapy enema because of serious constipation, as I was sitting on the toilet, and it was certain the enema had “worked” and I'd passed the really hard poo, I'd get a spoonfull of Castoria “to keep me going”.