Two drachms of castor oil and an enema were given.
He remained at Orange River two days, and while there an enema was administered, producing a normal motion.
A soapsuds or salts and glycerin enema to flush the colon will often give quick relief by dispelling the gas.
One saline and one nutrient enema may be given during the night if the patient is very weak.
The rectum should be cleansed by flushing with a soapsuds enema one hour before the nutrient enema is given.
Certain physicians recommend an enema made with equal quantities of milk and molasses, with enough hot water added to make a thin, warm solution.
Care must be taken not to have the temperature of the nutrient enema too hot or too cold or it will be promptly rejected.
Care must be used in preparing this flatus enema on account of the danger of curdling the milk with the acid in the molasses and the hot water.
A flatus enema containing salts, glycerin, and a few drops of turpentine is also valuable in removing the gas formed by the action of the putrefactive bacteria upon the unabsorbed food mass.
The bowels should move every day, even if some gentle laxative or an enema has to be used to bring about the desired result.
The cleansingenema may be either soapsuds, a solution of bicarbonate of soda, or boric acid (1 teaspoonful to the pint), or a saline solution.
This enema must be given "high" so as to reach the spot in the colon where it may efficiently do its work.
A nutrient enema injected only into the lower bowel not only does no good, but may actually cause a good deal of unnecessary discomfort to the patient.
Cold water may be used as an enema and should also be showered upon the body of the horse from the hose or otherwise.
If the costiveness is not relieved by the laxative diet, give an enema of about a quart of warm water three or four times a day.
An enema may be given, if necessary, to empty the bowels well.
The enema should be used occasionally, however, rather than allow the bowels to continue costive, and to avoid severe straining at stool.
The use of the enemais an important means of aiding recovery, but it has been much abused, and must be employed with caution.
A small, cold enema taken just before retiring, and retained, will often do much to allay local irritation.
On several occasions it has yielded me marked results when given by stomach or by enema in cases of nervous and cardiac depression.
Tobacco has been used by enema to combat tetanus; Dr.
Opium may also be useful, administered in the form of anenema or suppository.
If objections are made to the use of the catheter, at an early period of retention, nitrous ether may be given internally, fomentations applied to the hypogastrium, and a turpentine enema administered.
The enema should be given in a warm room free from draughts, and the baby must be warmly covered throughout the process.
Sometimes an enema is expelled with such violence that it soils the upper sheet; to protect the covers a rubber sheet may be spread over the patient's knees and legs.
After the enema is finished give the bedpan immediately; the enema will, however, be more effective if retained a few minutes.
Unless otherwise ordered the temperature of the enema should be between 105 deg.
To give an enema to a baby one may use a small syringe having a soft rubber bulb with a nozzle directly attached, or the ordinary fountain syringe with the small, hard rubber tip designed for infants.
Since an enema sometimes causes nausea or faintness, a patient should be watched constantly during the process.
Babies may be given a few teaspoonfuls of warm water, or an enema of salt and water.
If there is a desire to expel the enema as soon as the injection has begun, shut off the current and wait a minute, meanwhile making gentle pressure upon the patient's abdomen with one hand; then lower the bag a little and begin again.
Show how to prepare and administer a salt and water enema to a grown person; to a baby.
Every night, just before retiring, take a light enemaand retain it over night; also, take an enema just after rising.
Sidenote: Treatment in severe cases] There should be injected into the rectum a tablespoonful of olive-oil, followed immediately by an enema of hot water at a temperature of about 115 degrees.
The enema should consist of about 8 ounces (half a pint) of cold or lukewarm water containing a pinch of salt, and should be retained about ten minutes.
Instead of water, we may advise an occasional enema of two to four drams of glycerin.
This form of instrument remained in use till the beginning of the nineteenth century, although the elaborate enema syringe, on the principle of the force pump, had been in use since the fifteenth century at least.
And it is much better to use an enema than to go to bed without a bowel movement.
The patient should have a full warm tub-bath, fresh night-clothes put on, and an enema should be at once given to unload the bowels, and this even though there may have been a bowel movement only a few hours previously.
If the woman is going around, so that she can give the enema to herself, the most effective way to take it is in the knee-chest position or an approximation to this.
An enema so taken will be very much more effective than one taken in the ordinary manner of sitting on the toilet.
For a chronic diarrhea anenema given in the knee-chest position, as already described, will often be found a most efficient remedy.
In the method just described more water can be used and it will be longer retained; it can be felt to go up along the course of the large bowel, and it will often be found very effective when the ordinary enema fails.
If this does not suffice, an enema of warm water, to which a little soap or two teaspoonfuls of glycerin have been added, may be given.
This enema will often be found to be a very valuable aid in curing an obstinate chronic diarrhea, which is kept up by particles of feces remaining in the folds of the large intestine.
The less noise or force attending the operation the less likely is the animal to be alarmed or excited, and the probability is the enema will be retained.
A full enema of the solution of soap should be thrown up; and the rectum having been emptied, an ounce or four ounces of the sulphuric ether and hyoscyamus mixture ought to be injected every hour.
For the treatment, in the first instance, a turpentine enemawill frequently cut short the attack.
A turpentine enema to unload the rectum, and a full dose of castor oil to relieve the bowels, should be administered early in the disease.
Either of these will relieve the bowel; but the condition of one part justifies an inference as to the state of another, and the enema probably will not unload the caecum, which there is reason to suppose is also clogged.
If at the time of the period the pain still continues, an enema or vaginal douche will usually give the necessary relief unless the patient should be exposed to cold by allowing the hands, arms, feet or legs to become chilled.
The hot bath, with a copious enema of warm water, has saved the lives of many babes.
If the patient cannot swallow, an enema of hot water, or hot, thin gruel, should be administered, and may be of use in addition to hot drinks.
When much chilliness is produced by the contact of water with the skin, the cold enema is a most admirably useful measure.
A fullenema of water, as hot as can be borne, will remove offending substances from the bowels.
A large hot enema should be given after each evacuation of the bowels.
Besides this the patient should have a large enema of water at a temperature of from 75° to 80° F.
A warm hip-bath taken at the beginning may give relief, or a large hot enema retained for half an hour or so.
Warm baths, the hot blanket pack when the surface is cold, and the hot enema are all useful.
An enema of warm soapsuds answers the purpose, or a half-tablespoonful of warm water, in which a half-tablespoonful of glycerine is dissolved, makes an excellent injection for constipation.
If the bowels are constipated anenema of warm water and a little castile soap should be administered.
If the patient lies on the left side while these injections are taken or given, the enema flows higher up, and it should be retained for a reasonable length of time.
Harsh cathartics must not be employed; and if a simple enema of warm water early every morning does not give the desired relief, I would recommend a daily dose of Femina laxative syrup.
If the pain and straining are very severe, one teaspoonful of either is not too much; by requesting the patient to retain the enema for ten or fifteen minutes, the medicine is directly absorbed, and the effect is both soothing and healing.
The bowels should be freely moved with castor oil or a dose of salts and senna, or by an enema of warm soapsuds.
If the ordinary dose fails to relieve the bowels, an additional treatment of glycerine enema at or about the time that the stool is to take place is to be employed.
As soon as possible, administer enemaor dose of castor oil.
Used as an enemain dysentery, diarrh[oe]a, and excoriations of the rectum.
An efficient enema in colic and obstinate constipation, in the absence of spasms and inflammatory symptoms.
This name has been applied to an enema of warm water, either with or without the addition of a little sugar, honey, or milk.
In irritation of the bladder, rectum, or uterus, an anodyne injection or enema often affords much relief.
At times, when the stomach and intestines have been over-loaded with irritating material, an enema is one of the quickest measures for relief.
For the first few days it is well to take an enema of warm, soapy water at this time.
No provision is made for defecation, and hence it is our custom in long experiments to empty the lower bowel with an enema and thus defer as long as possible the necessity for defecation.
If the enema has to be frequently employed, cold water should be used, for the repeated use of hot water is likely to enfeeble the constitution.
If those who suffer from rheumatic complaints or indigestion or pains caused by an unhealthy condition of the bowels take an enema of 2 lbs.
If there be constipation, a hot-water enema with borax should be applied in preference to purgatives, after which a diet of olive oil will serve to keep the bowels free.
My cure for a cold is to take an enema and a laxative, eat nothing for twenty-four hours, and drink plenty of water.
On the other hand, if there is no solid matter to be removed, a small enema every day will suffice.
There are some people whose bowels are so frightfully clogged that I have known the enema to bring results even in the second and third weeks.
You should take a full warm enema every day during the fast, so long as it brings any results.
Therefore take an enema daily, if necessary to a free movement.
We deplore the use of the water enema as a regular daily procedure; in its place we suggest the use of the enema of oil or the introduction into the rectum of a gluten suppository or in obstinate cases a glycerine suppository.
After each bowel movement, no matter how often they come, the colon should be washed out with the salt and soda enema as before mentioned.
OIL ENEMA The best way to administer an oil enema is by means of a special enema can which holds one pint, to which is attached a rubber tube.
One woman lost her life because the nurse placed two ounces of carbolic acid in the enema instead of two ounces of saline solution.
When it is necessary to keep up this enema for an hour or two, the cool water may cramp the bowels, but this may be entirely obviated by applying hot compresses to the abdomen.
Enema after enema should be given until the water comes back clear.
The enema habit is a bad one and should not be encouraged; however, the enema is probably less harmful than the laxative-drug habit.
To immediately flush out the bowel, a soapsuds enema or a plain water enema may be allowed to flow into the lower colon, or a glycerine suppository inserted into the rectum will quickly bring a bowel movement.
It may ofttimes be necessary, and it is far less harmful, to insert a glycerine suppository into the rectum, than to get into the enema habit.
In order to relieve the pain and spasm of the sphincters attending the evacuation, it is well to use a suppository about half an hour before the enema is employed, consisting of: ℞ Ext.
If the first enema should prove ineffective, it should be repeated in half an hour.
Should I use an enema when I feel like this, or wait for natural results?
I do not want to start with the enema again if I can possibly manage to do without, because I found that my bowels depended upon it.
The motion to theenema as offensive as before, but the breath is less offensive to me: not so fetid.
Do you consider it better to use the enema than to take a mild aperient?
Unless there is distinct evidence of fæcal retention in the colon it is better not to use the enema as a regular thing.
Usually the first symptom of proctitis is constipation, and for relief the enema habit should be formed and continued while the constipation remains.
When the proper means are found to remove the intestinal inflammation--proctitis and colitis--then the constipation will disappear, and with its disappearance the enema habit can be discontinued.
And then again, the enema may be used for quite a period, when all at once a large prolapse of sacculated mucous membrane occurs, and the enemais thought to be the cause of it.
The sixth objection is that the use of the enema will weaken the bowels, which are already too "weak" to expel their contents.
A fourth objection is that after taking the first enema the constipation is worse.
They wonder at themselves for being so rash and bold as to take an enema twice a week, and begin to feel that they have reached a point of positive danger.
Be sure to follow the counsel there given, and use the enema two or three times a day in moderate quantities as indicated.
Then this objection to the use of the enema will indeed be the most important of all.
The condition for which an enema is used is one of disturbance and poison to the system.
It is that in taking an enema the water escaping from the syringe point will injure the mucous membrane where the jet strikes.
The first plausible objection to the use of the enema is that it is not natural.
In cases in which the use of the cool enema is attended by chilliness, this uncomfortable symptom may usually be relieved by the application of a hot bag or fomentations to the spine or to the pit of the stomach.
On learning this fact, the attendants were instructed to employ the enema in this way.
