Best "Long-Term Solution"

Just wondering if anyone has a tried-and-true recommendation for an enema solution that can be held for an extended period. Some solutions (soap, bisacodyl, peppermint oil) are actually stimulants and initiate peristalsis very quickly. Others (water, coffee) are more-or-less benign and just sit there without causing any particular unpleasantness. What I'm searching for is something that has a calming or even a numbing/anesthetic effect so that two or three quarts can be held for at least a couple of hours, without a plug, while one goes about their daily routine. All suggestions welcome... thanks.

If HOLDING the full volume is what you want, an isotonic saline solution would be best.

If you want some of the solution to be absorbed, plain water will do fine.

Catnip tea and camomile tea are said to be calming.

You do not want anything that actually numbs because you don't want your anal sphincter deciding to let loose while you are out doing your daily routine.

Listen to Switchablesusie, put some salt into your water and have a blast! that doesn't hurt and you never know...it may turn out to be your best enema session yet! 😃

With my IBS ravaged wife, I've found that tap water is actually a mild irritant. Just irritating enough to get the job done; soap causes her INTENSE cramping. We've Tried saline (too mild) and NaHCO3 which just sits inside for long periods of time.

I usually stay with tap water in my irradiated colon.

Try the baking soda, it's it mildest.

For a soothing and relaxing Enema, that I have found easy to hold for a longer period of time, two herbal ones come to mind. Slippery Elm Bark Powder seems to kind of 'thicken' the Enema, and is slippery going in, and easily held. Another would be to use Valerian Root; but you need to go light on this one. It is the herb that Valium is made from, so I never plan on driving or doing anything when I have used this. Before having back surgery in '89, I used this a few times to get releif when nothing else worked.

Dan

Thanks to all for the advice and recommendations. A plain saline solution sounds as if it might be the preferred, most benign 'solution.'

I know that a strong saline solution will draw water into the colon, actually increasing the volume held inside. Similarly, plain water will be absorbed and migrate into the system. At some concentration, the solution ought just to sit there. Does anyone know the mix for minimum transfer of liquid, in or out? Something on the order of one teaspoon per quart seems a good starting point, but it would be difficult to estimate this without some guideline.

Table or sea salt, 1 tsp per qt is roughly isotonic. Check the recipes section; this has been extensively discussed before.

9 of table salt grams per liter (or quart) will give an isotonic, phyiologic solution that should not result in a change of fluid volume in the colon.

Thanks again, all. In determining the volume of salt to make an isotonic solution, the coarseness must be factored-in. Susie's measure of 9 grams per liter is probably the most accurate figure, based on weight rather than volume measure. Kosher salt, which is frequently recommended here mainly because it lacks additives, is very coarse, and according to the packaging, as much as two teaspoons of this are required to equal one teaspoon of common US table salt. I've noticed that table salt in Europe is a bit coarser that ours over here, so maybe that would constitute a 1.5:1 equivalency. In actually weighing common supermarket table salt, I found that one teaspoon does indeed weigh-in at 8 grams, so the one teaspoon per quart advice is pretty close.

Not a recepi but just my story of today.

My Miss needed to go to a fair in neighbourhood country so she had to wake up around 5h in the morning.

I needed to assist her in making breakfast and finish her suitcase as a good sub husband needs to do. But I always have the bad habit when she is gone to get back into bad to sleep for another hour before my work starts. So today she ordered me to take an plain 3 liter cold water enema before she left. ( this I did in the shower (first taking an empty 1 liter bottle, open the tap and do some timing how long it takes the 1 lit bottle is full ( now it was 50 sec). then insert the shower end and wait for 150 sec before taking out.

I was looking like 6 months pregnant 😃

She just told me to keep it inside myself with no additional help till she reached the border of our country. THIS IS 150 KM from our house!!!

Finally after some minor leaking but major cramps she phoned me after 1.45 h she reached the border and I was allowed to get relief.

At least she was sure I did not went to bed when she was gone 😃😃