No constipation can long withstand the suasion of a dose of pea soup, or baked beans, flavored with a modicum of brown butter, and glorified with a cup of cold spring water.
Constipation lies at the root of a host of chronic ailments, which seem especially to beset American women.
Constipation often may be relieved by drinking a glass of cold water upon rising, at intervals during the day, and upon retiring.
Then we need have no trouble with constipationnor take any horrid medicine to whip the bowels.
The constipation of pregnancy is not to be treated by strong cathartics like Epsom salt.
Physically there is loss of appetite, constipation and rapid heart action, a great increase in the number of the white blood corpuscles, particularly of the multinucleated cells which are frequently increased in bacterial infections.
The patient suffers from malaise, indigestion, constipation and irregular, rapid and forcible action of the heart.
Constipation is also another of its attendant ills; so also are bad breath and a red nose.
The treatment consists in removing the obstinate constipation by powerful purgatives, advantage being taken to gain their utmost efficacy by combining several together, and giving them along with plenty of fluid.
In some cases of obstinate constipation a cold-water dressing, placed over the pit of the stomach or the abdomen, will cause the bowels to act in the course of an hour or two.
Marked by severe griping pains and constipation of the bowels.
It has been assumed for long that the retention of fæcal matter tends to putrefactive changes in the intestines, and that the evil consequences of constipation are due to this.
In such patients an error of diet or constipation may bring about most serious consequences.
Some healers have loudly and repeatedly (and wrongly) proclaimed that constipation is the sole cause of disease, and thus, the only real cure for any illness is colon cleansing.
Usually constipation delays transit time, increasing the adsorption of toxins generated from misdigestion of food; by coating and locking up significant portions of colon it also reduces the adsorption of certain minerals and electrolytes.
A more accurate definition of constipation is "the retention of waste products in the large intestine beyond the time that is conducive to health.
The Development Of My Own Constipation The history of my own constipation, though it especially relates to a very rustic childhood, is typical of many people.
This type of constipation is not perceived as an uncomfortable or overly full feeling or a desire to have a bowel movement that won't pass.
The frequency or quantity of fecal elimination is not an indication of the lack of constipation in the bowel.
In how far the constipation is primary and in how far it is secondary is a question.
But the importance of the constipation habit lies chiefly in its effect upon mood and energy, in its relation to neurasthenia.
It is generally unadvisable to give it when there is constipationor hepatic congestion.
Hamilton, in his work on Purgative Medicines, states that when they are given in constipation he has found that they become more and more powerful, and may be taken in smaller and smaller doses the longer they are continued.
Neligan recommends Strychnia in Lead-colic, in which disorder constipationand distention of the bowel are produced by a paralysis of a portion of the large intestine.
We find that constipationis commonest in youth, when nutrition is most active; and diarrh[oe]a most frequent in old age, when waste and decay go on the fastest.
Constipation produces drowsiness, and torpor of the mental faculties.
It in frequently a cause of constipation and creates a necessity for continuing the use of enemas indefinitely.
If constipation exist, a little oil or syrup of rhubarb or some stewed prunes, or an enema, may be ordered.
The bowels are not so often constipated as in typhus, and it is not rare for diarrhoea and constipation to alternate, or for the bowels to be loose throughout the paroxysms.
Constipation is to be overcome by gentle purgatives, as the use of powerful cathartics is very apt to be followed by troublesome diarrhoea.
Although oftenest met with in mild cases, constipation has existed in cases in which perforation of the bowel or intestinal hemorrhage has occurred during life, or very extensive lesions been found after death.
Constipation would appear, however, to be more frequent than diarrhoea in this class of cases.
Constipation is an exceedingly frequent symptom under many and diverse circumstances.
Constipation is an occasional symptom, but it rarely calls for active interference.
Constipation has been, as a rule, present during the acute stages; later in the attack diarrhoea has occasionally occurred.
In case of constipation gentle purgation, ex indicatione symptomaticâ, is a necessary part of the proper management of the case.
When, on the contrary, constipation exists, it is still necessary to avoid the use of drastic cathartics; indeed, even mild laxatives should be given by the mouth only after enemata have failed to produce a movement of the bowel.
Constipation is present in some cases, or the bowels may be relaxed or remain in their natural state.
Constipation and menstrual troubles should be cured, worry, trouble and anxiety, if possible, be removed.
Again constipation is caused by the womb lying upon the rectum.
Piles will not usually give rise to much trouble unless constipation exists.
Cooked fruits for the constipation may also be given.
Orange juice is very good when constipation exists--strain it always, and it must be always fresh and sweet.
Constipation is perhaps the most frequent cause: when a movement of the bowels is put off for a considerable time the feces accumulate and become hard and lumpy and difficult to expel.
In some cases constipation is prominent, in others diarrhea is a prominent symptom.
There is usually obstinate constipation and loss of sexual power.
Is constipation likely to occur from such a weak food?
Constipation is frequently present and the diet must be chosen with reference to that also.
There may be pain or dragging sensation in the loins, or intercostal neuralgia; hysteria, nervousness, nervous dyspepsia and constipation are common.
Olive oil may safely be given for constipation to a baby,--from twenty drops to one teaspoonful one or two times daily, but castor oil should not be given for constipation, as after a time it leaves the baby more constipated than ever.
The most frequent cause of disease of the rectum is constipation and anyone of the following local diseases of the rectum and anus may be a symptom of constipation.
The tongue is coated; there is constipationor diarrhea; the abdomen is somewhat distended and a little tender to the touch in the lower right portion.
Suppose there is a tendency to constipation in the infant?
Sometimes to cure the constipation means an immediate cure of the eczema.
Constipation is the rule in appendicitis, but diarrhea occasionally accompanies it.
If constipation is the habit a laxative should be given; the aromatic fluid extract of cascara sagrada or magnesia are suitable.
Constipation must be avoided; if necessary, laxatives may be taken to keep the bowel open.
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.
If the eczema is accompanied with constipation and indigestion in infancy, very little can be done with the eczema until these conditions are removed.
I believe them superior to anything ever devised for the relief of constipation and hemorrhoids.
General weakness of the constitution or of the blood-vessels and habitual constipation may be predisposing causes of piles.
The symptoms are dysmenorrhoea, pain on defaecation and constipation from the pressure of the fundus on the rectum; the patient is often sterile.
When all other methods fail, constipation can oftentimes be relieved by taking a glass of milk every thirty minutes until four glasses have been consumed.
Under this regimen I have known the most severe cases of constipation to yield readily, and the patient to make a gain in weight of half a pound daily for a period of from twenty to thirty days.
The object to be obtained in relieving constipation is to increase the moisture and the peristaltic action.
In cases of severe constipationor alimentary congestion, milk should be given as follows: [Sidenote: Milk diet for constipation] Omit breakfast.
Constipation is at the root of most physical ailments and is caused by eating the wrong kind of food.
Much of the misconception about constipation arises from the mistaken idea that this is a disorder of the whole intestine or at least of the whole colon.
Constipation has nothing to do with food or with water, but solicitous care about either can hardly fail to create the trouble which it tries to avoid.
Her daughter had been a patient of mine and had been cured of the constipation with which she had been busy for many years.
Constipation is an inhibition or restraint of function, but is never a loss of function.
Since constipation is wholly due to the acceptance of a false suggestion, the only logical cure must be release from the power of that suggestion.
Constipation is a perfect example of the power of suggestion, and of the troublesome effect of a fear-idea in the realm of automatic functions.
Constipation was only one of this young woman's troubles.
We have seen infants, and also young children, in whom constipation was obstinate.
Habitual constipation produces many derangements, resulting from sympathy, irritation, or mechanical obstruction.
There are few persons who have not suffered at some period of their lives from constipation of the bowels.
The condition of the bowels varies from constipationto diarrhea, although sometimes they are quite regular.
The influence of constipation upon the functions of the liver, is indicated by the sympathy displayed between that organ and the mind.
If constipation or diarrhea be experienced, small doses of Dr.
It may proceed from gastric disturbance, constipation of the bowels, or derangement of the liver.
In this way, constipation may be the source of general derangement, but such disorder is seldom attributed to the torpid state of this intestine.
They are of a more liquid character than is natural, except when, as is sometimes the case, periods of constipationalternate with periods of unnatural looseness.
I have hardly ever seen, excepting in cases of mechanical obstruction, a severe and troublesome case of constipation that had not been caused by the use of cathartic remedies.
Constipation is relieved by injections of warm soapsuds, once in two days.
Constipation throughout the disease is, however, not uncommon in the more serious cases.
In this form, which follows more regularly all the periods, constipation is obstinate at the outset, evacuation of the bowels takes place with difficulty, the faeces are hard and the urine scanty, the belly is inflated and sensitive.
There is more constipation than diarrhoea, though, on examination, the mucous membranes are all found to be affected precisely in the manner so often observed in England during the present outbreak.
Individuals inclined to biliousness should endeavor to overcome the constipation which is one of the most prominent features.
Constipation in the mother reacts quickly and unfavorably upon the secretion of milk.
Constipation is generally an annoying symptom of the disease.
Constipation is an indication of the agreement of this diet and the patient's utilization of the milk.
Following its use such individuals have been known to develop renal colic or gallstones; constipation may be present and the entire system may become so deranged as to render the patient liable to disease.
Karell advocates boiling the milk and relieving the constipation with enemas or mild laxatives.
In some of these cases diarrhea is most prominent, while in others constipation is the most marked symptom.
With older children and adults, the question of diet for constipation is quite as important as it is for infants.
Constipation should be avoided, and the diet should be directed with this point in view.
It is often the ease that soliciting nature at a regular period, once a day, will remedy constipation without medicine, and induce a regular and healthy state of the bowels.
Whether constipation is chronic or occasional or whether it is hereditary or acquired, in any case, it should be corrected if possible through modification of the diet, and of daily habits.
If one then who is annoyed by a tendency to constipation wishes to correct it, a rational change of diet would be, to eat freely of cereals and coarse breads and of various fruits, particularly apples, figs and prunes.
