Comments on: Cleaning Out Your Colon With Dietary Fiber http://reliefforconstipation.net/cleaning-out-your-colon-with-dietary-fiber How To Stop Constipation Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:05:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: bellabimba http://reliefforconstipation.net/cleaning-out-your-colon-with-dietary-fiber/comment-page-1#comment-50 bellabimba Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:09:03 +0000 http://reliefforconstipation.net/cleaning-out-your-colon-with-dietary-fiber#comment-50 My mother, now 77 and living with me because she is unable to live by herself, included with severe chronic pain with the only explainable osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis managed by hydromorphone and other pain relievers, is also plagued with constipation. I try to make her drink a lot of water, but I don't know if she is drinking enough. I also am worried that if she drinks TOO MUCH water, the sodium in her body would be diluted causing other problems. I have several cereals in the house including full bran flakes which is has been eating a relatively big bowl every morning. She has also been given a prescription of 12mg Sennosides, 2 at bedtime if required which she takes if she thinks she needs them. She told me she passes large stool which she remarked that they were hard to pass. I dismissed the remark as she is always complaining of something. Well, this morning, she said that she passed such a big stool that plugged the toilet! I went up to investigate and found that it was true - although the stool was very large (believe me, it was) compared to mine, it had been sitting in water and had not broken up. I removed the large stool out of the toilet so that the plunger would not break it up and make a big mess, but I did not touch it either to see how hard it was. When I used the plunger, other shorter pieces came up, but as she said she had passed a large long stool, perhaps it was broken up and could not be flushed. The plunger did "free" things in there and did flush. I think that if my mom is going to eat a large bowl of bran flakes each morning, she must drink more water and if she cannot or will not drink enough water, then perhaps the bran can be mixed up with other cereals. What is your suggestion? Thank you From the above article "The type of dietary fiber can greatly affect bowels. A diet high in rougher fiber (such as bran) in a person with limited fluid intake, can increase the risk of larger, harder stool that is difficult to pass." My mother, now 77 and living with me because she is unable to live by herself, included with severe chronic pain with the only explainable osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis managed by hydromorphone and other pain relievers, is also plagued with constipation. I try to make her drink a lot of water, but I don’t know if she is drinking enough. I also am worried that if she drinks TOO MUCH water, the sodium in her body would be diluted causing other problems. I have several cereals in the house including full bran flakes which is has been eating a relatively big bowl every morning. She has also been given a prescription of 12mg Sennosides, 2 at bedtime if required which she takes if she thinks she needs them. She told me she passes large stool which she remarked that they were hard to pass. I dismissed the remark as she is always complaining of something. Well, this morning, she said that she passed such a big stool that plugged the toilet! I went up to investigate and found that it was true – although the stool was very large (believe me, it was) compared to mine, it had been sitting in water and had not broken up. I removed the large stool out of the toilet so that the plunger would not break it up and make a big mess, but I did not touch it either to see how hard it was. When I used the plunger, other shorter pieces came up, but as she said she had passed a large long stool, perhaps it was broken up and could not be flushed. The plunger did “free” things in there and did flush.

I think that if my mom is going to eat a large bowl of bran flakes each morning, she must drink more water and if she cannot or will not drink enough water, then perhaps the bran can be mixed up with other cereals.

What is your suggestion?

Thank you

From the above article

“The type of dietary fiber can greatly affect bowels. A diet high in rougher fiber (such as bran) in a person with limited fluid intake, can increase the risk of larger, harder stool that is difficult to pass.”

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