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Enemas are also thrifty: they are self-administered and can prevent most doctor's visits seeking relief for acute conditions.
The difference between helpful and potentially harmful enemas lies in the amount of water injected and the frequency of use.
For a normal saline solution use one teaspoonful of ordinary salt to a quart of water, or four teaspoonfuls to a four-quart enema.
The cold enema does not produce or aggravate constipation; on the contrary, it often relieves and cures the sluggish bowels.
This enema is sometimes used for expulsion of worms from the rectum, and is considered very effective by physicians generally.
If you have in view the cleansing of the entire alimentary canal from stomach to rectum, the enema is often of indifferent value.
The remedy which I have learned to rely upon in the treatment of this troublesome complication is turpentine, administered preferably by enema.
At times, when the stomach and intestines have been over-loaded with irritating material, an enema is one of the quickest measures for relief.
Reports case of husband, who fasted seven days for constipation and deafness; had been obliged to take enema daily for several months.
The sixth objection is that the use of the enema will weaken the bowels, which are already too "weak" to expel their contents.
A turpentine enema to unload the rectum, and a full dose of castor oil to relieve the bowels, should be administered early in the disease.
It cost me only thirty cents to use your method, viz.: six feet of rubber tubing to make a siphon to take two enemas daily.
Certain physicians recommend an enema made with equal quantities of milk and molasses, with enough hot water added to make a thin, warm solution.
Probably for psychological reasons, some peoples' colons allow water to be injected one time but then "freeze up" and resist successive enemas.
The enema habit is a bad one and should not be encouraged; however, the enema is probably less harmful than the laxative-drug habit.
It is that in taking an enema the water escaping from the syringe point will injure the mucous membrane where the jet strikes.
If there is any doubt as to the effect of the laxative, a large stimulant enema should be administered on the morning of the operation.
I wish that I could induce you to try the experiment of fasting again with the use of the enema and the copious water drinking.
When all these measures fail, he gives in to the morning enema or the nightly pill, in imminent danger of succumbing to a life-long habit.
The logical course is to unload the bowels of feces and gases by a generous use of the enema and to treat the diseased tissues kindly.
It may require a few weeks of special care, during which cold water enemas at night, following evacuation by paraffin oil injection, may be needed.
There are some people whose bowels are so frightfully clogged that I have known the enema to bring results even in the second and third weeks.
In administering an enema, the rectum should be emptied out with the hand and the nozzle of the syringe carried as far forward as possible.
They are used in warm baths with much success to allay nervous irritability; or a strong infusion of them is administered by enema for the same purpose.
Enemas are better however, as a general rule, such as those of thin starch, or molasses and water, to which may be added a little castor oil.
An enema may be administered by allowing water to gravitate into the rectum from a height of two or three feet or by using an injection pump.
If the case is not acute, a large enema of soap and water with turpentine may be given, or, possibly, a dose of castor oil by the mouth.
In conjunction with the bleeding it is also usual to give enemas of starch and castor oil, or something similar, and to bathe the extremities in hot water.
The patient should be confined to a darkened room and protected from cold drafts of air; the bowels should be opened, if necessary by turpentine enemas.
Gradually, as the practice is established by the use of the enema twice or thrice daily, it will be easy to determine the proper amount of feces to pass.
After this, a mild cathartic or a low enema is given often enough to produce a daily movement when this is not accomplished by means of the diet.
The rectum should be first thoroughly washed out with soap and water and one-half pint of this infusion is given in enema to dogs; two quarts to horses.
I've imagined making an enema bag from a two gallon plastic bucket with a small plastic hose barb glued into a hole drilled in the bottom or lower edge.
The rectum should be cleared out by means of an enema (injection) of tepid water; the hand and arm should be well oiled and passed into the rectum.
If the constipation is pronounced, the fecal mass very hard, an enema of sweet oil, allowed to remain in for ten minutes, will soften it and permit a movement.
The nurse herself confers with the doctors, waits on the surgeons, changes and cleanses the patient, and administers poultices, blisters, leeches, enemas, and the like.
As soon as you have the premonition of regular pains, unless the bowels have moved freely already that day, they should be moved by a full enema or injection.
The tenth objection to using an enema is in being obliged to use it from the fact of having such a disease as chronic inflammation of the rectum and colon.
If the patient is very weak and anemic from the extended course of the disease, nutrient enemas are given from four to six times a day, alternating with saline enemas.
From the origin of the enema to the present day, the layman has not been unmindful of this valuable resource for removing morbid matter from his physiological sewer.
Hutchinson recommends that the patient be placed under an anesthetic, the abdomen kneaded, and a copious enema given with the hips placed high or patient in inverted position.
The mother, who believed her own bowel paralyzed, had been in the habit of lying on the bed and taking a copious enema every second day of her life.
Is the medical profession's disapproval of the enema related to the fact that once the initial purchase of an enema bag has been made there are no further expenses for laxatives?
She said that for many months she had been taking eight tablespoonfuls of mineral oil three times a day besides a cathartic at night, and an enema in the morning.
Nothing but good results can follow the proper use of the enema two or three times a day in all forms of local disease of the anus, rectum, and colon.
When there is abdominal distension, this may be relieved by the passage of a rectal tube at intervals of three hours, and if this fails a turpentine enema should be given.
The condition of the stomach and bowels should be inquired into, and if found overloaded they should at once be relieved, the one by an emetic and the other by enema.
Sometimes an enema is expelled with such violence that it soils the upper sheet; to protect the covers a rubber sheet may be spread over the patient's knees and legs.
Three or four pints of water to which the juice of one lemon has been added, injected into the bowel following a cleansing enema, will thoroughly destroy disease-producing bacteria in the colon.
First of all enemas are a lot cheaper because you give them to yourself; an enema bag usually costs about ten dollars, is available at any large drug store, and is indefinitely reusable.
Nutrient enemas should be given slowly at very low pressure, the level of the fluid in the can being not over eight to ten inches above the level of the rectum.
This enema will often be found to be a very valuable aid in curing an obstinate chronic diarrhea, which is kept up by particles of feces remaining in the folds of the large intestine.
When a physician, or trained nurse, is administering a high enema, it is a common practice to hold a folded towel against the rectum, to guard against this pressure and its possible results.
When it is necessary to keep up this enema for an hour or two, the cool water may cramp the bowels, but this may be entirely obviated by applying hot compresses to the abdomen.
Occasionally however the blood will pass into the intestines and occasion colic, and then it must be removed by administering an enema of starch and castor oil, or a little manna may be taken.
In some cases a few of these channels open into the rectum just above the internal sphincter muscles and become filled with water during the use of the enema taken to move and cleanse the bowels.
If there is lack of power in the bowel, it is well to increase it by a warm bran poultice, or hot bag on the back, and to brace the vessels and muscles within with the cold enema.
In most cases an enema of neutral temperature, or at about that of the body, may be suggested, though if one has been using this treatment very much it would be better to use either a cool or cold enema, if strong enough, in order to secure its contracting and tonic effect.