How long does it take for colon cleansers to start working? How do I know if its working?
I won’t start by wondering why this question is in the "Mental Health" section… my imagination is gonna work overtime!
The answer is usually within a couple of days. Colon cleansers are designed for people who suffer sluggish bowels or irritable bowel syndrome or who just want to rid their bowels of various toxins etc.
This part is probably not for anyone who has just eaten or of a weak disposition…
Quite often some of the food we eat and which isn’t digested doesn’t make it all the way through the bowel to be expelled as faeces. It sometimes gets "stuck" and becomes compacted inside us. There are cases of compacted faeces having to be surgically removed that are over 3 feet long! This compaction is mainly due to a combination of a modern low-fibre diet and lack of exercise but some people are just more prone to this than others.
This stuff just sits there festering with bacteria all over it and may release unpleasant toxins as a result. In the worst cases the bowel may become blocked with this stuff and in other cases the normal digestive "juice" has to force its way past - often causing stomach cramps and sometimes loose runny stools or sudden episodes of diarrhoea (irritable bowel syndrome). The toxins may even contribute to causing bowel cancer and other unpleasantness.
Colon cleansers swell in the gut to provide "bulk" which enables the natural muscular contractions of the gut to push the gut contents through (both the "good" stuff and any compacted nasty stuff). They are also slightly "rough" so that they cause a "scrubbing" action to clean the gut walls.
The first signs that it is working will usually be very dark lumps of compacted feaces in your stools - so you will have to inspect your stools to see (said this wasn’t for the faint hearted!).
You may continue passing these dark lumps for a considerable time as bits get broken off from the compacted mass. But stick with the colon cleansers even if you stop seeing them (or indeed if you never saw any) - it certainly won’t do you any harm and is highly likely to be beneficial.
February 01 2010 11:10 am | Colon Cleansers
February 1st, 2010 at 4:47 pm
I won’t start by wondering why this question is in the "Mental Health" section… my imagination is gonna work overtime!
The answer is usually within a couple of days. Colon cleansers are designed for people who suffer sluggish bowels or irritable bowel syndrome or who just want to rid their bowels of various toxins etc.
This part is probably not for anyone who has just eaten or of a weak disposition…
Quite often some of the food we eat and which isn’t digested doesn’t make it all the way through the bowel to be expelled as faeces. It sometimes gets "stuck" and becomes compacted inside us. There are cases of compacted faeces having to be surgically removed that are over 3 feet long! This compaction is mainly due to a combination of a modern low-fibre diet and lack of exercise but some people are just more prone to this than others.
This stuff just sits there festering with bacteria all over it and may release unpleasant toxins as a result. In the worst cases the bowel may become blocked with this stuff and in other cases the normal digestive "juice" has to force its way past - often causing stomach cramps and sometimes loose runny stools or sudden episodes of diarrhoea (irritable bowel syndrome). The toxins may even contribute to causing bowel cancer and other unpleasantness.
Colon cleansers swell in the gut to provide "bulk" which enables the natural muscular contractions of the gut to push the gut contents through (both the "good" stuff and any compacted nasty stuff). They are also slightly "rough" so that they cause a "scrubbing" action to clean the gut walls.
The first signs that it is working will usually be very dark lumps of compacted feaces in your stools - so you will have to inspect your stools to see (said this wasn’t for the faint hearted!).
You may continue passing these dark lumps for a considerable time as bits get broken off from the compacted mass. But stick with the colon cleansers even if you stop seeing them (or indeed if you never saw any) - it certainly won’t do you any harm and is highly likely to be beneficial.
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BSc Physiology and Biochemistry
Wife is a regular taker of colon cleansers and has cured her IBS that way
February 1st, 2010 at 5:34 pm
look at your colon, it should look cleaner
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February 1st, 2010 at 6:13 pm
usually within a day or two, you know that it is working when you have many bowel movements
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February 1st, 2010 at 6:51 pm
About 1-2 days. Basically the frequency and volume of your movements will quadruple.
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February 1st, 2010 at 7:33 pm
when you crap your pants
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February 1st, 2010 at 7:41 pm
I agree…
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