Treat Severe Constipation Yourself With These Two Simple Tips

Severe constipation is caused by a hard stool which will not pass through the rectum, or you have an impacted stool. You will want to quickly relieve this terrible condition. When you have severe constipation, you are either suffering from fecal impaction, or you cannot pass stools or gas (which is termed "obstipation"). You will want to quickly relieve this terrible condition.

Fecal Impaction Causing Severe Constipation

A solid mass of feces which is immobile, generally in the rectum, is referred to as "fecal impaction.You may suffer from chronic constipation, overflow diarrhea, or other problems in this area. Bloating in the abdomen, or pain in that area may also occur.

Don't let the cause of the problem go unresolved. Once you have had one fecal impaction, you are at higher risk for having another. More movement and perhaps healthier eating habits are simple preventative steps you can take.

The immediate treatment to remove the impaction may be one or more of the following:

A) Taking Oral Laxatives;

B) Enemas or suppositories. These work quickly, which does not allow much time for the mass to soften. Mineral oil enemas help by lubricating the stool.

C) Removing it manually.

D) Surgery. Worst Case Scenario!

What Is The Cause of Severe Constipation

A) Lack of physical activity

B) Not enough fiber in your diet;

C) Being dehydrated;

D) Prescription medications, especially pain relievers.

Severe Constipation Help

The following two enemas can be done by yourself to assist in passing stool to relieve constipation. Always review these with your health care provider prior to doing them.

Gather your basic supplies: enema bag, lubricant, waterproof pad.

Mineral Oil Enema

You can easily find Fleet oil at the pharmacy. The oil softens and lubricates, making it easier to pass the impacted material. This type of enema works well when the fluid goes high up in the intestine, and you can hold it there for a while. To do this, squeeze the enema bag quickly with lots of pressure to force the liquid higher up.

When doing this enema, lie on your side on the floor (with the pad or bag under you) and hold the liquid as long as you can, to allow it to soften and lubricate. The general instructions below should help you with this process.

Old-fashioned Powdered Milk and Molasses Concoction You Can Use At Home

Use this enema up to four times a day. Review this with your health provider first. You can do this in conjunction with a mineral oil enema, just wait at least one hour before doing the Milk and Molasses enema.

Recipe for Powdered Milk and Molasses Enema

6 ounces hot water

3 ounces powdered milk (do not use cow milk)

4.5 ounces molasses

Mix together in a container the hot water, molasses and powdered milk.

Put the mixture into your enema bottle and perform the enema. For best effect hold this for 20 minutes before removing the tube and sitting on the toilet.

Enemas pull water from your body. Drink twice as much water as usual for the next 24 hours to ensure that you are staying hydrated. To prevent this from happening again, add at least 25 grams of fiber to your diet each day, and stay hydrated. Add in exercise (even walking helps).

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Are These Lip Ulcers, Canker Sores?

If you are suffering from lip ulcers you more than likely do not have canker sores. Canker sores are usually found on the inside of the mouth not on the lips. Canker sores do have symptom ulcers that break out when you are really stressed out like cold sores do, but the canker sores were inherited from your parents, and are just reacting to everyday environmental stressors, where the cold sores are caused by an incurable virus.

When you have a sore on the mouth, or on the outside edge of your nostril that forms a painful, swollen blister, you more than likely have a cold sore. Once you have one you will have them again, because the virus living inside you that is causing all the pain, and misery for you will never totally go away. It will become dormant, because it needs for your body to be in a slightly weakened state in order for it to emerge.

The best advice on how to prevent cold sores is advice that helps you maintain a healthy body, and thus, a healthy immune system. Your immune system is designed to fight off this virus, and anything else that is threatening your body. The immune system is our soldiers against disease. We need to keep the soldiers in perfect shape for fighting, because war can break out inside your body at any moment.

In order for your soldiers to fight you must keep their arsenal supplied with weapons, and the best weapons you can provide are good nutrition, adequate rest, and proper hydration. Your body has to have all three of these elements in place in order for your immune system to be able to do the job it is assigned to do.

You can also help your body by eating some things like licorice. Licorice helps to inhibit the virus. This does not mean the candy that is flavored with anise so that it tastes like licorice. You need to find some pure licorice candy.

Avoiding over exposure to harmful ultraviolet rays emitted from the sun. Protect your lips with a lip balm that contains a sun screen, and wear a big wide brimmed-hat. You will be protecting your face against future wrinkles while you prevent a herpes simplex 1 outbreak. If any portion of your body becomes sun burned your immune system will begin to focus all of its energy on combating the effects of the damage from the sun, and this will leave herpes an open doorway that it will take full advantage of.

When you do have an outbreak, as soon as you are cleared up throw away the toothbrush you were using and get a new one. The herpes simplex 1 virus is very contagious, so your toothbrush may harbor enough of it to re-infect you. If you treated the area with a lip balm, then get rid of that tube of balm and use a new one.

Avoid drinking after someone having an active outbreak, and never share lipsticks, lip glosses, or toothbrushes.

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