Recent ileostomy question?
The dietician will usually give her a diet before she leaves hospital. If not, low fibre, easily digestible foods are best for the first 4 - 6 weeks, then she can slowly start introducing new foods back into her diet. Add them one at a time, so if it does cause a problem, she can identify the culprit and CHEW, CHEW, CHEW! As for pain killers, her surgeon would be the best person to ask as certain meds can cause the gut to slow down (which she doesn't want). Again, I would have thought the hospital would have advised her on this before she came home.
Has anyone used celevac for slimming?
Hi, i saw mentioned on TV that this bulking agent can be used for slimming. have you used it and does it work. and how do u take it, is it like u take 1 b4 each meal or something?
Why don't drugs get destroyed by our stomach acid?
Some of them are. Example: Duloxetine is a strong antidepressant indicated for use in treating major depressive disorder. It is broken down by stomach conditions and must be absorbed through the intestine. It is supplied with a coating that resists acid conditions but breaks down as the surrounding pH rises.Other drugs constructed like this may be specifically required to release in the intestine because that’s where they need to work on, or because they irritate the stomach.Many drugs simply don’t react with stomach acid and irritation notwithstanding these can simply be swallowed as they are.Anecdotal, but for patients with bowel disorders, a stoma from colostomy/ileostomy or other misfortunes of the lower GI tract, gastro-resistant medicines may be a poor choice. They may not be absorbed as intended, particularly if they are slow release types that depend on a long transit time - conditions which will obviously not be well met in a set of intestines that has been greatly shortened.(This is not medical advice: I’m not a doctor, I’m certainly not your doctor, but if you think that this affects you then have the conversation with whoever is your doctor. Here endeth the disclaimer)
What causes a person to not pass a stool? I know of a person who says that he has not passed a stool in 4 months. Can this be true?
It can’t be true.If someone didn’t eat, no feces in the bowels, no stools to pass. Not eating for 4 months would have long caused death by starvation, the Irish Hunger Strikers in 1981 lasted 46 to 73 days without eating before starving themselves to death, see 1981 Irish hunger strike - Wikipedia; unless the person had been fed intravenously, a serious undertaking fraught with potentially fatal dangers and side effects rarely seen outside a medical setting, see Home parenteral nutritionSome have mentioned blocked bowels (usually tumor, rarely worms, inflammatory bowel disease, adhesions) preventing stools from passing, but this wouldn’t go unnoticed: the bowels would distend, cause pain, if not relieved by e.g. an operation removing the blockage burst, causing fecal peritonitis, a potentially fatal infection on the inner lining of the belly, so impossible too.So what is left are people seriously constipated, where hard feces can’t be passed, maybe for up to two weeks.
How bad is it to take Vicodin with alcohol?
I was addicted to vicodin for years, I took it every day, all day, and I drank fairly frequently as well... So here's the deal. Drinking while you're taking vicodin has potential to cause damage to your liver, so you want to be cautious of that and keep that in mind. Realistically though, the chances of you doing serious damage drinking on vicodin a couple of times is not likely. The main thing that is going to happen is that the liquor is going to amplify the effects of the vicodin, and vice versa. You will feel more drunk, and more high than you normally would had you just done then seperately. I would recommend doing like you said, staying home and drinking, or if you go out, be sure you have somebody there to drive you, it hits worse than you realize, and you get affected a lot quicker than you think. Of course there are warnings all over the place about mixing them because yes, it's not a very healthy thing to do, but in the same sense, I'm telling you 110% you will be just fine, just take it slow with the alcohol, and be aware that it will impact you much more, and much quicker than if you weren't taking the pills. If it helps, I used to take a handful of Vicodin and wash it down with hard liquor and beer all night long because of the way they would amplify each other. I did this behaviour for years, and now I am as healthy as an olympic sprinter. But that is my body, so, know your limit, respect what your body is telling you, and go slow with it, and by all means, enjoy yourself! You're gonna have a good night with it, i promise! Hope this helped.
Do you change your diet when you need to heal?
Most Doctors will suggest you do change your diet while you need to heal wounds, surgery or any other kind of intervention/procedure (even tatooing)…Why?Well… certain types of foods, spices, oils (animal fats), processed or not, can and will either irritate or slow down the therapeutics of medication, sutures, healing aids, painkilling purposes of treatments, and even interfere in the natural healing means of your own metabolism, blood flow and muscle/organs function recovery.It is always optional… of course… but I’d definitely do some adjustments, be them temporarily or not.