Reply to: Colonic Irrigation

[lamboman]

I have family history of Bowel cancer and have significantly changed my diet to use fresh juices / vegetables limiting meat and dairy to a minimum, trying to keep my colon in a good state. Check out this book, some info is outdated but mostly gives very good info on keeping the colon clean, so you may find it useful:

http://www.amazon.com/Fresh-Vegetabl...279967-9368617

[Moose423956]

Colonic Irrigation: a quack remedy and new age bollocks?

http://www.ebm-first.com/?cat=12

Food for thought:

"Significant dangers include: perforation of the colon, infection from improperly cleaned instruments, electrolyte imbalances, and fluid absorption and overload leading to heart failure. Deaths have been reported from both perforation and infection."

[realityhack]

Aye. Foolishness is not a modern thing.

So speaks the expert.

[sasguru]

It's not new at all. Although it's now considered a fashionable toxin removing treatment, privately given at alternative medicine clinics, the practice of colonic irrigation has been a around for a lot longer. It used to be practiced by ordinary GP clinics during the war and the practice of colonic flushing goes back much longer than that.

Aye. Foolishness is not a modern thing.

[DodgyAgent]

I had one a few months back. I found it a soothing experience, but I do eat healthily so the poo and gas came out easily and it wasn't at all painful. The worst thing for me was the tube bursting open at the start of the session when the water was being flushed through me, wetting the bed and having to have it reassembled. Luckily I wasn't expelling waste matter at that point. Therefore, I spent the entire session thinking I was going to poo all over the bed as it was being flushed out as I was never really convinced it was going to just go through the tube. Also, the practitioner had really long artificial fingernails, so when she was giving me reflexology during the session, her nails dug into my feet quite painfully, and during the stomach massage too. The other thing I wasn't overly keen on was leaking out on the way home. Only a bit, luckily, but enough to make me worried about embarassing leakage in a public place. Although you sit on the loo and allow your body to leak out the excess water at the end of the session in the clinic there is still some left in you that drips down when you start moving around.

I would go again but probably with some other clinic much closer to home and preferably carried out by someone with short fingernails.

You are at last earning some respect from your fellow contractors, though I am not sure that this will go down well with my lunch

[wobbegong]

Colonic Irrigation: a quack remedy and new age bollocks?

http://www.ebm-first.com/?cat=12

Exactly, the pactice of deviants and harlots!! (C'mon Chico, help me out here)

Medicine, my arse. Oh, wait . . . .

[Denny]

Colonic Irrigation: a quack remedy and new age bollocks?

http://www.ebm-first.com/?cat=12

It's not new at all. Although it's now considered a fashionable toxin removing treatment, privately given at alternative medicine clinics, the practice of colonic irrigation has been a around for a lot longer. It used to be practiced by ordinary GP clinics during the war and the practice of colonic flushing goes back much longer than that.

[ratewhore]

I had one a few months back. I found it a soothing experience, but I do eat healthily so the poo and gas came out easily and it wasn't at all painful. The worst thing for me was the tube bursting open at the start of the session when the water was being flushed through me, wetting the bed and having to have it reassembled. Luckily I wasn't expelling waste matter at that point. Therefore, I spent the entire session thinking I was going to poo all over the bed as it was being flushed out as I was never really convinced it was going to just go through the tube. Also, the practitioner had really long artificial fingernails, so when she was giving me reflexology during the session, her nails dug into my feet quite painfully, and during the stomach massage too. The other thing I wasn't overly keen on was leaking out on the way home. Only a bit, luckily, but enough to make me worried about embarassing leakage in a public place. Although you sit on the loo and allow your body to leak out the excess water at the end of the session in the clinic there is still some left in you that drips down when you start moving around.

I would go again but probably with some other clinic much closer to home and preferably carried out by someone with short fingernails.

I'm going to remove you from my ignore list Denny - what a great post...

[freakydancer]

Like really bad fart pains

fart pains? WTF???

[sasguru]

Colonic Irrigation: a quack remedy and new age bollocks?

http://www.ebm-first.com/?cat=12

[SallyAnne]

Well lets face it, one cannot expect normal bowel movements when one's diet consists almost exclusively of hotdog toasties... Hardly a great deal of roughage in one of those - granary bread might help I suppose...

Hhot dogs have all sorts of things in them - bones and eyes are probably a good source of fibre!

[SallyAnne]

I had one a few months back. I found it a soothing experience, but I do eat healthily so the poo and gas came out easily and it wasn't at all painful. The worst thing for me was the tube bursting open at the start of the session when the water was being flushed through me, wetting the bed and having to have it reassembled. Luckily I wasn't expelling waste matter at that point. Therefore, I spent the entire session thinking I was going to poo all over the bed as it was being flushed out as I was never really convinced it was going to just go through the tube. Also, the practitioner had really long artificial fingernails, so when she was giving me reflexology during the session, her nails dug into my feet quite painfully, and during the stomach massage too. The other thing I wasn't overly keen on was leaking out on the way home. Only a bit, luckily, but enough to make me worried about embarassing leakage in a public place. Although you sit on the loo and allow your body to leak out the excess water at the end of the session in the clinic there is still some left in you that drips down when you start moving around.

I would go again but probably with some other clinic much closer to home and preferably carried out by someone with short fingernails.

Ah thats classic

[Denny]

Colonic Irrigation - no proof at all that it is beneficial in any way. It may even be harmful if it flushes out necessary bacteria in the gut. Just eat lots of fruit and veg - much better in the long run.

That's true if it is done too often. But regular two monthly sessions are only advised for the first 2-3 sessions to get rid of toxins that have lived in your colon for years on end. After that twice a year maximum.

[Denny]

I had one a few months back. I found it a soothing experience, but I do eat healthily so the poo and gas came out easily and it wasn't at all painful. The worst thing for me was the tube bursting open at the start of the session when the water was being flushed through me, wetting the bed and having to have it reassembled. Luckily I wasn't expelling waste matter at that point. Therefore, I spent the entire session thinking I was going to poo all over the bed as it was being flushed out as I was never really convinced it was going to just go through the tube. Also, the practitioner had really long artificial fingernails, so when she was giving me reflexology during the session, her nails dug into my feet quite painfully, and during the stomach massage too. The other thing I wasn't overly keen on was leaking out on the way home. Only a bit, luckily, but enough to make me worried about embarassing leakage in a public place. Although you sit on the loo and allow your body to leak out the excess water at the end of the session in the clinic there is still some left in you that drips down when you start moving around.

I would go again but probably with some other clinic much closer to home and preferably carried out by someone with short fingernails.

[EqualOpportunities]

Why does that not suprise me?

Well lets face it, one cannot expect normal bowel movements when one's diet consists almost exclusively of hotdog toasties... Hardly a great deal of roughage in one of those - granary bread might help I suppose...