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In standard medicine, the most frequent uses of enemas are to relieve constipation and for bowel cleansing before a medical examination or procedure; also, they are employed as a lower gastrointestinal series (also called a barium enema), to treat traveler's diarrhea, as a vehicle for the administration of food, water or medicine, as a ...
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consider a saline enema in the six month to two year old group. Enemas Enemas are beneficial in the acute setting, though invasive. Trials have shown that enema disimpaction provides superior, immediate symptoms relief compared to oral laxatives3. Sodium phosphate enemas (Fleet brand) are contraindicated in patients with increased risk of ...
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Nov 20, 2023 · Enema. An enema involves inserting liquid directly into your rectum to help you poop. Most people use them to relieve constipation that hasn’t improved with other treatments and as a colon cleanse to prepare for a colonoscopy. You can buy enema kits, like Fleet® Saline Enema, over the counter.
2.1 Pathogenesis and risk factors. Functional constipation can have many different causes, ranging from changes in diet, physical activity, or lifestyle to primary motor dysfunctions due to colonic myopathy or neuropathy. Constipation can also be secondary to evacuation disorder.
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An uncontrolled study (106 patients with constipation and 24 patients with defecation disorders) assessed the usefulness of the balloon expulsion test in chronic constipation to identify defecation dyssynergia, showing a sensitivity and specificity of 87.5% and 89%, and positive and negative predictive values of 64% and 97%, respectively. 16 ...
- Jordi Serra, Juanjo Mascort-Roca, Mercè Marzo-Castillejo, Silvia Delgado Aros, Juan Ferrándiz Santos...
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Glycerin: 1 adult suppository PR, onset of action 15-30 min, then 1-2 doses per day. Enemas. Soap suds, saline, tap water enema (rectal distention, causing evacuation) [1] May add 50-100 mg of docusate liquid to saline or water enema. Fleet Phospho-soda: 118 ml single enema dose, with maximum of x2 doses at least 1 hr apart.
Nutrient enema. A nutrient enema, also known as feeding per rectum, rectal alimentation, or rectal feeding, is an enema administered to provide nutrition in cases where normal eating is not possible. This treatment is ancient, dating back at least to the second century AD when documented by Galen, [1] and commonly used in the Middle Ages, [2 ...
