Fleet taken orally

I recently read that some enema aficionados will drink a Fleet as part of the cleansing process. I've also read on this site that you shouldn't put anything in your bowels that isn't safe to eat. Using that logic I would assume it's safe to take Fleets orally. Is it really? If so, has anyone ever done it and what was the reaction? I can't imagine they taste very good but people ingest some pretty foul tasting stuff like castor oil.

It doesn't taste like castor oil, it tastes just like the fleet bowel prep that was taken off the market that you drank.

The enema is the same stuff only with more water than what you drank. If I recall correctly, there is the same amount of active ingredient in the enemas as the oral prep you drank.

Actually, there were 2 types of Fleet Phoso-Soda. Ginger- lemon flavor, (green box) and unflavored(blue box)

Despite what everybody said, and no matter how much you chilled it, the ginger-lemon flavor was just nasty.

It is arguably worse than the cherry flavored magnesium citrate, though the cherry citrate is harder to keep down.

The only way I ever found of getting the ginger-lemon flavor down was to hold a stadium cup of water in one hand, the phoso-soda in the other, kneel down in front of the toilet, start with a sip of water, then a small sip of Phoso-Soda then a large sip of water, then count to 10 and repeat. When the phoso soda is all down.continue to kneel there for 5 minutes to make sure it stays that way. When you get up, don't get dressed, don't do anything physically strenuous, drink plenty of water, and don't get too far from the toilet. It should start to have it's effect in 45-90 minutes.

The unflavored was just very salty. Go to the salt you cook with, lick your finger, and put a coating of salt on your finger, then lick it off. That gives you an idea what the unflavored tasted like. Sometimes I could not get the unflavored, but when I could, that was what I preferred. I had gotten in the habit of taking it as above by the time I discovered the unflavored.

Normally I used it as the last stage of a system cleanout. The unflavored was also the first oral laxative I ever used without an enema.The only other one has been Dulcolax.

Given that the unflavored stayed down OK, I might take a Fleet Enema orally, but given the difficulty keeping the ginger-lemon flavor down, plus the fact that the Fleet Enema is not buffered for oral use makes me skeptical. If the issue was how hard it is on the kidneys, then the buffering of the Phoso soda should slow things down enough to at least partially mitigate that issue

That said, it would be a tough call. Especially since Epsom Salt can be taken orally and tastes no worse than the ginger-lemon flavored Phoso Soda.

The Fleet enema solutions is not quite the same as the old PhosphoSoda. A detailed reading of the Fleet enema label reveals the Enema solutions contains small amounts of the preservatives/anti-microbials Benzalkonium Chloride, and Sodium EDTA. These were not needed in PhosphoSoda because the Concentration of Sodium Phosphate and Dibasic Sodium Phosphate in PhosphoSoda were so high that they inhibited microbial growth in the solution on their own.

EDTA and Benzalkonium Chloride are both on the FDA's Generally Regarded As Safe (GRAS) list, so ingestion of small amounts is very unlikely to cause harm.

Anyway the best way to take products like PhosphoSoda is to dilute them a lot more than the label suggests. While PhosphoSoda is no longer on the market, some of its generic competitors are still on the shelf. Add the dose to a liter of Gatorade® or similar beverage. This renders the solutions much closer to being isotonic, and greatly reduces the risks of kidney damage by providing extra fluids. The high dilution rendered the Sodium Phosphate/Dibasic Sodium Phosphate nearly tasteless.

I have also heard of adding the dose when making a batch of Lime flavored Jell-0®. Again, the point is substantial dilution, and increase fluid consumption with product.

The risk of Kidney damage from Fleet Enema's is substantially lower than it was from Oral Solution. The Colon just isn't very good at absorbing Phosphates,and it is hard to retain a Fleet enema long enough to get a lot of Phosphate absorbed.

Thanks for the replies, everyone. I'm continuously amazed at the wealth of knowledge some of you posses. I know my way around a machine shop pretty good but I haven't the vaguest idea what all these different substances you refer to are or what they do (never took chemistry). I understand that kidney damage is the main concern from taking this stuff orally and that's enough to keep me away from it. On the other hand, it all sounds like the stuff they give you to drink prior to a colonoscopy and that's about as far from being erotic as you can get in my opinion. I think I'll just stick to solutions that go in from the bottom. Thanks again.