04.09.11

Q: What can I do for constipation?

A: Constipation is a honest problem. It has been estimated that there are at least 2.5 million visits each year to physicians for constipation.

  The NIH (Inhabitant Institutes of Health) defines constipation as having bowel movements less than three times a week. However, the frequency of bowel movements in otherwise in the pink adults can range from three a day to three a week, though frequency is only one consideration to consider. Also important in constipation are symptoms such as rigorous stools, straining, bloating, cramping, love lumpy or hard stools or a feeling of partial evacuation or blockage.

  Almost everyone has occasional bouts of constipation. Older adults who are fixed and less physically active are even more bothered by this problem. Constipation also can be a intricacy of another disease or medical condition or even a side effect of a psychedelic or supplement. Chronic constipation can be caused by neurological disorders, petulant bowel syndrome, endocrine disorders such as hypothyroidism, a number of commonly used drugs (all opiates lead to constipation), and minerals such as iron and aluminum. Scarcely ever, problems in the floor of a woman’s pelvis act upon muscles critical to a successful bowel wing and can cause constipation.

Source: Pueblo Chieftain

30.08.11

,” Paulo Freire advocated for a teaching routine that shatters a town’s “customs of silence.” An irrepressible force against capitalism and hierarchy, Freire asked us to suppose creative modes to address this silence and then act on it, as teachers.

What about the taste of silence surrounding the local medical clinic? Along these lines, I asked a latest class of 34 students to write about their last medical sense (with identities protected). Their responses astounded me.

One pupil, an Iraq War veteran, went to the local Old-timer’s Administration hospital to evaluate his inability claims for Post-Traumatic Stress Derangement (PTSD) only to be told he was only suffering from hearing privation and to “check the VA website” for updates.

“One doctor asked me if I had been exposed to any stentorian hearing noises during my time in Iraq. . . Then [another doctor] mentioned that I ‘should have been wearing hearing bulwark over there.’ I reminded him that it is not feasible, nor possible, to harm hearing plugs constantly over a 12 month stretch. So unless the insurgents would like to warn me to the fore of time of an attack, loud surprises will chance.” The veteran has no hope of getting PTSD benefits and finds the VA “very dehumanizing.”

Source: CounterPunch

by DreamingTree

Still learning the ropes of med-surg nursing after a career in psychology, and gathering fodder to keep a blog going for years (though I doubt more than the random reader will see it). Why blog? Mainly for the catharsis. My family is either repulsed or confused by my work stories -- this saves them. Do I sound like someone you know? Pure coincidence...

Source: Time for Miralax

by M. Brian Fennerty

Only about half of U.S. adults have undergone colonoscopy screening for colorectal neoplasia. To reach our object of screening 100% of the of age denizens, we must find ways not only to arrange the methodology more ready and affordable for patients, but also more run-of-the-mill, noticeably in terms of bowel preparation.

Racism of the gold-model bowel prep, which is now 4 liters of a PEG-based electrolyte deciphering (since Division’s Phospho Soda was removed from the retail), has been blamed on both the unpleasant soup of the d and the monstrous abundance that must be swallowed. Since split dosing has take place into the latest, book seems to be less of a uncontrollable, but the drop end remains.

To workers construct the soup of the decipherment more acceptable, one of my colleagues began giving patients the way out of drinking split doses of a Miralax/Gatorade clique. I was surprised by how well-tolerated and compelling he said the prep has been. Now, we routinely presentation patients split doses of either a PEG-based or Miralax/Gatorade bowel prep. As a outcome, patients do not seem to whimper as much about the prep when they check in in for their exams. More impressive, a greater chunk of patients accomplish the whole prep, and almost all of the prep results are but for the fact that or worth.

What preps do you submit patients who live colonoscopy, and what is your know with Miralax/Gatorade?

Source: Gatorade and Miralax: A Better Bowel Prep? | Gut Check on ...