Problem with constipation at 82.

[thaibeachlovers]

17 hours ago, giddyup said:

I do eat high fibre cereals like oat bran

Eat more bran. Buy the bran separately and add more to the porridge.

[klauskunkel]

I drink a teaspoon of olive oil every few days. Works well.

[Luuk Chaai]

Sounds like you might be lacking in proper nutrition

 you need more animal fat in your diet  not "sawdust" drinks and chemicals

 

Eat animal-based foods. This means no:

Fruits Vegetables Legumes grains Sugars Nuts Seeds And anything else that isn’t meat

[steven100]

I had the same problem years ago ...

I went to the doctor and he scribbled out a prescription and said '  go get suppository pills '  take 1 morning and night before sleep .....

 

anyway,  after a week I went back and told the doc ' .......   those pills you gave me were useless  !!     for all the good they did I might as well shoved them up my a_se   

[giddyup]

1 hour ago, scorecard said:

 

Emulax BISACODYL stimulant Laxative. 

2 small tabs when a build up. All softened, comes out easily, no pain about 6 - 8 hrs later. 80 years old, occasional problem.

100 tabs 45Baht at Pharma Choice

Milk of Magnesia, same thing.

[msbkk]

I highly recommend to eat a few dates every day. Prunes work as well. Or even better a few of both daily.

[iLuvThai]

I eat Oatmeal cereal every morning and it works for me. I'm in my 60's and I've had issues with this most of my life. If you make it a habit just to sit on the toilet for as long as it takes even if you don't feel the urge to go, chances are the urge will come if you can just relax and the other person that suggested the Squatty Potty, that also works. 

[Freddy42OZ]

18 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Eat two whole unpeeled kiwi fruit every day.  Guaranteed to work.

 

Swallowing them is hard, especially the first one.

[bignbad]

Big session on beer Chang, always works for me!

[Fishoholic]

Magnesium as a supplement is very important especially if you are sweating a lot.

Good diet with plenty fiber.

Also drink plenty fluids.

These methods are medically proven without the need for laxatives.

[sikishrory]

Overnight oats covered in fruit, prunes, almonds and flax each morning.

With a shot of pyslium husk water on the side. Or metamucil (same but with sugar).

The poo poos will be fallin out the bott bott no worries.

The fibre does suck moisture from the bowel so you should drink more water.

This everyday also rapidly lowers cholesterol

[deadbeat]

I was told by an old timer here that this problem has a simple and inexpensive fix without playing around with your diet.

When you want a number two put the bum gun up where the sun dont shine.

It'll all come out of you like a waterfall.

Leaves your aristotle as clean as a whistle too.

[newbee2022]

18 hours ago, sometime said:

senokot laxative , just Google it

Not good. It's a "senna" product with side effects

[john donson]

bum gun... aim well, let your colon fill with water... the urge will come

 

my a spray is set to  PAINT REMOVER strength

[easton]

Drink plenty of water and take a stool softener daily.

[Jaggg88]

One or two teaspoons of this in a glass of water every day stops you from getting constipation. It's all-natural and pure fibre. I buy it from Lazada

[KhunLA]

11 minutes ago, Jaggg88 said:

One or two teaspoons of this in a glass of water every day stops you from getting constipation. It's all-natural and pure fibre. I buy it from Lazada

 

that was my thought earlier 👍

 

12 hours ago, KhunLA said:

@giddyup I  I think the Psyllium husk powder, is the ingredient doing all the work.

 

Which I've actually thought about searching for that, when I run out of my stash of ... 

 

 A quick Google, and that's reassuring ...

 

Edited November 19 by KhunLA

[Yagoda]

Figs and Prunes, Dragon Fruit and Pineapple

[blazes]

3 hours ago, deadbeat said:

I was told by an old timer here that this problem has a simple and inexpensive fix without playing around with your diet.

When you want a number two put the bum gun up where the sun dont shine.

It'll all come out of you like a waterfall.

Leaves your aristotle as clean as a whistle too.

 

You mean, it comes out on a Plato???

[watgate]

My wifes sister has been using Coffee DENE  Detoks for more then 5 years and it cleans her out. I am using it and it takes awhile for it to kick in, but when it does, can you say exploding a--hole. The listed ingredients on the package are non- dairy creamer 48%,instant coffee 22%,fiber 14%, white kidney bean extract 4%,collagen 3.5%, psyllium husk 3.5%, garcinia 2%, Tamarind extract powder 2%, rosella extract powder 0.9 % and sucralose 0.1 %.

     I don't think it is a laxative but with my shi- luck .......?

[alanrchase]

Make sure you stay hydrated. My father was in and out of hospital due to constipation when he was in his eighties,  the cause was always due to not staying hydrated.

[sometime]

Bumped into a friend this morning, and it reminded me that he had the same problem, turned out to be stage one bowel cancer.

He is fine now after the OP. 

He is just turned 80

[indyo]

try drinking more water during the day and eat more mangoes.

[Rimmer]

Some off topic / troll posts removed also replies

[ericbj]

Look for potential causes of constipation, and they can be many.  And they tend to worsen with age because of such things as:

 

- digesting less well (and maybe eating less)

    ripe papaya flavoured with lime juice, or in a fruit salad, works well for me.  It contains a digestive enzyme.  In my carnivorous days in the bush, tough meat could be tenderised by leaving it wrapped in papaya.  Pineapple is also said to contain a digestive enzyme.  You can buy digestive enzymes as supplements, but they cost a fortune.

 

- taking less exercise

    walking helps, but a bicycle is an easier way of getting around, and more practical for carrying groceries etc.  At the height of the rainy season, standing for 10 minutes on a Vibrating Plate (available through on-line sources) can be a great help.  Best just before taking one's morning shower.

 

Other factors to consider:

 

Lack of adequate water intake.  Drink till satiated, especially in hotter weather when much is lost as sweat.  And consider consuming slightly salty soups

 

Using a high, western-style toilet-bowl of the type commonly attributed to Thomas Crapper.  Useful if you wish to sit and read the morning's newspaper, a ritual now largely relegated to the past.

The traditional Thai squat toilet is superior as regards voiding the colon, as squatting brings into play muscular activity.
Maintaining tone of abdominal muscles is of course also indicated.

 

Dysbiosis of the gut, caused mainly by unbalanced modern diets, preservatives and other chemicals in industrialised foods, and antibiotics in medicines and animal products.  Can cause a gamut of problems, some potentially leading to premature death.

Eat organic where possible.  Avoid ultra-processed foods.  Eat fermented foods such as yoghurts, sauerkraut, kimchi.  Full of healthy bacteria if unpasteurised.  Must be uncooked.  Failing which take prepared probiotics of the kind containing a minimum of about 15 billion bacteria per dose.  Expensive to produce, expensive to buy.  Not what you will find in your local pharmacy.

 

Avoid the consumption of sugars, except what is naturally present in foods.  And restrict consumption of all carbohydrates (especially the fast-digesting ones), as they digest to glucose.  Note there are ways to slow down their digestion.  The slowest-digesting carbs are found in the bean family where they are a single long-chain molecule composed of glucose groups.  Grain carbs are multi-branched, so can be digested (i.e. the glucose broken off) from multiple positions simultaneously.

 

A colonic cleanse once a year constitutes a useful 'spring-clean', and it can be instructive to see what comes out.  For years my colon was infested with unimaginable amounts of candida albicans, in its filarial fungal form.  But it always re-grew.  Nothing would deal with it.  Then one year, none was present.  Why? It may have been because I had incorporated cold-pressed coconut oil into my diet.  It contains caprylic acid.

 

Healthy bacteria need prebiotics to feed on.  This is provided by the soluble fibre in fruit and vegetables, and oats.  Excessive consumption of insoluble fibre found in most whole grains can, by its abrasive effect on the inner lining of the intestinal walls, cause damage to that lining which is only one cell thick.  The 'tight junctions' of the lining control what passes into the blood.  Its progressive destruction is a first step in overwhelming the body's immune system.

 

Those born at a time of close conjunction Moon-Neptune are said to be naturally prone to chronic constipation.  When I heard this, nearly fifty years ago, my ears pricked up.  It helped to explain my need for constant vigilance in combatting the tendency.

[Rampant Rabbit]

Please stop reminding us of whats to come down the line...........in 20+ years in my case

[giddyup]

43 minutes ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

Please stop reminding us of whats to come down the line...........in 20+ years in my case

You'll be there in the blink of an eye.

[Gecko123]

A factoid which may surprise you as much as it surprised me when I first heard it... meat contains zero fiber.

 

@Luuk Chaai

Edited November 19 by Gecko123

[placnx]

It seems that regular consumption of chili works for me. Of course, that comes with vegetables, and I drink water in the daytime, especially.

[dinsdale]

3 hours ago, Gecko123 said:

A factoid which may surprise you as much as it surprised me when I first heard it... meat contains zero fiber.

 

@Luuk Chaai

Why would it? It's meat.