The food should be appetizing, nutritious, and of a laxative nature.
Of the laxative drugs which may be used at such a time, cascara sagrada and senna are among the least harmful.
The bowels should move at least once during each twenty-four hours; if they are obstinate, a simple laxative may be nightly administered.
The following list of foods are laxative in their action and will be found helpful in overcoming the constipation so often associated with pregnancy: 1.
It is also exceedingly useful in constipation, as its action is more laxative than any of the other sugars; but it should not be given to children who vomit habitually or have loose stools.
This comes next to wheaten bread: it is not so rich in gluten, but is said to keep fresh longer, and to have some laxative qualities.
It has been somewhat condemned for its laxative qualities, but this has possibly arisen from the fruit having been eaten unripe, or in too great excess.
But these are slightly laxative if partaken of largely.
The bowels should be kept in a laxative state, by taking occasionally a quarter of an ounce of the Cheltenham or Epsom salts.
Remedies of a laxative and cathartic nature soon lose their power and the dose must be repeated or a new remedy must be given.
It is a well-known fact that a little salt in warm water before breakfast is laxative and also cleanses the system and bowels on account of its purifying action.
Give baby a teaspoonful of juice from cooked dried prunes whenever a laxative is needed.
The bowels should be kept active by laxative fruit or purges.
Action: It is slightlylaxative and a pleasant article of food.
Give the child a laxative like magnesia or citrate of magnesia, or epsom salts and cream of tartar, of each two ounces.
The Compound Licorice Powder is a mild, simple laxativeand effective.
Cascara sagrada cordial is a good mild laxative to take, if necessary.
It is put in laxative pills to prevent griping and to disguise the taste of the salines.
If there is reason to believe that the bowels retain feces from before the attack, it is generally thought advisable to administer a laxative dose of castor oil, to procure the discharge of matters which would act as irritants.
The warm infusion of eupatorium perfoliatum answers well as an emetic, producing also a laxative effect.
For this purpose the laxative mineral waters, as Friederichshalle, Hunyadi, Pullna, are excellent.
Footnote 8: A small red bean called adzuke, possessing both laxative and diuretic properties, is a favorite remedy with the Japanese for beriberi.
After the use oflaxative agents the kidneys, being less congested on account of the diversion that has occurred, often begin to excrete urine more freely.
This little laxative pills business I took over from a concern that didn't have the capital to advertise it.
A few doses of a saline laxative should be given to render the contents of the bowels more fluid, and the enemata repeated until a sufficient evacuation has been effected.
It usually comes on during the first few days after labour, before the patient has taken the laxative medicine which is customary at this time, and seems to be excited to an outbreak by any little source of mental annoyance or irritation.
A mild laxative may be given, when an empty state of the bowels is desirable, or when they, by acting too soon afterwards, might put the patient to inconvenience or pain, or interrupt the curative process.
No more valuable laxative is known to the medical world to-day, and every year great quantities of it are exported from our shores.
A tincture made of the bark is used by physicians as a tonic and laxative and as a remedy for fevers and coughs.
Feed dry food after giving a laxative of half a pint of raw linseed oil.
When fruit is taken for its laxative effect and the irritation of the cellulose needs no consideration, the skins of the fruits may be eaten instead of being rejected.
They are also valuable in the diet because of their slightly laxative effect.
Usually, it is necessary to increase the laxative food in the diet at this time of life, but this matter is one of the abnormalities of diet and therefore belongs properly to medical dietetics rather than to a lesson on normal diet.
They are also valuable as a laxative and in adding variety to the diet if they are well cooked before they are served.
This dish is more nutritious than meat, and one of the finest laxative foods in existence.
Prunes or figs, stewed or raw, are served at every meal to those who require a specially laxative diet.
It is the favoritelaxative and cathartic of allopathy.
There had never been a taint of specific disease in her system, but four different times in her life she had been salivated by calomel (a common laxative containing mercury).
A slice or two of pineapple taken at the close of a meal gives a marked laxative effect.
They are sedative, narcotic, and powerfully diuretic; also mildly laxative and diaphoretic.
Keep the animal perfectly quiet, and let it have soft laxative food.
Oysters are nutritious and easy of digestion when fresh, but are apt to prove laxative to those unaccustomed to their use.
Dose, 2, night and morning, with an occasional dose of laxative medicine.
Like almond oil, it is occasionally employed as a laxative and vermifuge, and is, perhaps, one of the mildest known.
Upon the commencement of the attack give a few doses of calomel or laudanum, or of tincture of aconite, and if the bowels are costive two or three drachms of aloes, afterwards keeping up the laxative effect by mild clysters and mashes.
Treacle is more laxative than sugar, and always contains more or less free acid.
An admirable stomachic, dinner, or laxative pill, according to the quantity taken.
These salts cause a large amount of watery mucus to be excreted from the mucous membrane of the intestines, the physiological purpose of which is to wash the offending substances from the body, thus producing a laxative effect.
Many poisons which react directly upon the mucous membrane of the alimentary canal have a laxative effect.
It matters not whether this condition comes from the use of poisonous drugs calledlaxative remedies, or from foods containing foreign or non-nutritive substances, the result is the same.
Sidenote: Milk may be laxative or constipating] Whether or not milk is constipating depends entirely upon how it is taken, and the articles with which it is combined.
Croton-oil is the most powerful laxative known to medicine, owing to the fact that Nature abhors a poison.
Foods containing both ash and cellulose have a laxative effect.
For very young children the juice of orange or the pulp of cooked prunes should be given daily, because they contain valuable nutrients and possess laxative properties.
Very young children are fed prune juice because of its laxative effect.
A saline laxative may be administered every three or four hours for a day or two, each dose containing a drop or two of the tincture of aconite, with the addition of morphine if indicated by pain.
A cup of cafe au lait at breakfast or before breakfast is the best morning drink;[47] it has a laxative influence.
Free use of alkaline and laxative mineral waters is desirable, for a double purpose--to act on the liver and on intestinal digestion, and to promote the excretion of biliary matters by the kidneys.
The former is an alkaline water with a slight laxative tendency, and the latter a decided aperient alkaline-saline water; and it is not unlikely that they owe a part of their good effects to an action upon the liver and upper bowel.
From three to five grains are taken at the bed-hour, and a mildlaxative in the morning.
Hot water, laxative salines, combined with restricted diet and healthful regimen, accomplish much in correcting morbid conditions of primary assimilation; and by accomplishing this many secondary ailments promptly disappear.
A mild antacid, or even an emetic, may be indicated when there is gastric derangement or disturbance; or a mild laxative when the patient is costive.
In atonic constipation, the form now under consideration, the laxative chalybeate waters are indicated where there is anaemia or debility.
In feebler subjects minute doses of strychnia or some of the simple vegetable bitters may be used in conjunction with the laxative salines.
Great good is accomplished by a simple diet and a course of the Saratoga saline laxative waters--the Congress, Hathorn, Geyser, etc.
A gentle laxative or, if the patient be of costive habit, a saline purge is indicated to facilitate the passage of matters already in the intestinal canal.
Before the Blood Builder pills were taken, all their users were advised to have their bowels thoroughly cleansed by a laxative medicine and, happily, the company also made an excellent preparation for this purpose--Dr.
The juice Aloes is extracted from the leaves of this plant and since antiquity has been regarded as a valuable drug, particularly for its laxative and vermifuge properties.
Packaging and directions are now modern, the pills being described as "The Overnight Laxativewith the Tonic Action," but a reproduction of the old label and the facsimile signature of William Henry Comstock, Sr.
But Clysters must be forborn on these Occasions, especially when one of the thick Guts is wounded, making use rather of a Suppository or laxative Diet-Drinks, to avoid dilation and straining.
The volatile Salt of Human Bones is also very efficacious; but it is necessary to begin first with the taking of Laxative and Sudorifick Medicines, appropriated according to the respective Circumstances.
Owing to its acidity, combined with its laxative properties, it is believed to exercise a general impression on the liver.
It is a decided laxative to the bowels, a fact which must be borne in mind in the treatment of typhoid fever, and which may be turned to advantage in the treatment of habitual constipation.
It produces no definite systemic effects, except as a mildlaxative and possibly diuretic.
This may be administered notwithstanding the fact that a baby has a tendency to looseness of the bowels, as orange juice, as recently pointed out by Gerstenberger, has practically nolaxative action.
Furthermore, in cases of latent or subacute infantile scurvy, it was of no moment whether a laxative was given or whether constipation was induced by means of opium.
The surgeon ordered the application of a dozen leeches to the chest and belly; laxative medicines were given, and embrocations applied to the spine and back.
The syrup is an even stronger laxative than the prunes.
A glass of water on going to bed or on getting up has a laxative effect; and there are other dietary measures which may be employed with advantage.
Its laxative effect is most pronounced when it is eaten alone, as, for example, in the morning before breakfast or at night upon going to bed; cooked fruit taken with the meals acts much less effectively.
She should also take a gentlelaxative each day, as a little Hunyadi Water, or laxative mineral water of any kind.
To correct this, the girl should take laxative doses of Lydia E.
In this case she should stop eating meat of all kinds, and live largely upon milk, keeping the bowels in laxative condition by using Lydia E.
For this special purpose the mineral laxative waters are best.
If the person is conscious of having eaten something indigestible, as unripe or overripe fruit, then it is best to aid nature by taking some gentle laxative, as a laxative dose of Lydia E.
They do not purge, gripe or weaken, but are a gentle effective laxative which stimulates the natural action of the bowels.
Whatever outward means may be employed, laxative medicines ought never to be neglected.
When out of danger supply it with moderate quantities of laxative provender, and keep it for ten days apart from its fellows, by which time it will, in all likelihood, be well recruited.
These, from their laxative effects, will serve as antidotes to the dry sapless grasses, which have led to the disease.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "laxative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cathartic; diuretic; laxative; physic; purgative; purge
