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Posted 8/6/2012 6:50 AM (GMT 0)
Does anybody know how effective doing a colon cleansing is on UC patients?

A friend of mine went to this colon cleansing place and had her's cleansed. She said they really just stick something in your bum and water or whatever kind of chemicals used just cleans out your system. She doesn't have any illnesses but she suggested that it may be good for me and my UC.

Does anybody know about this or has tried something like this?
Posted 8/6/2012 1:35 PM (GMT 0)
I personally think it's a bad idea. You never know what's going to irritate your colon and a cleanse might very well do so. I also think the colon is a self-cleansing organ.
Posted 8/6/2012 1:45 PM (GMT 0)
I do a partial cleanse using slippery elm powder enemas.

I've noticed lately that if I use a couple of enemas in the morning to "empty out", I don't have BMs during the day....sometimes not until the following morning.
Very convenient..not having to look for bathrooms.

I also find it helps to "ease things out" when having issues with hemorrhoids. Lessens the irritation and promotes healing.

I use a simple enema recipe:
Mix a couple of tsp of organic slippery elm powder with 2 cups of boiling water and strain. Can add a few drops of vitamin E oil.
Posted 8/6/2012 2:10 PM (GMT 0)
with UC -the last thing are colons need is a good cleaning :)
Posted 8/6/2012 7:52 PM (GMT 0)
Not recommended and definitely a bad idea.

What would you hope to help? You're on meds to help the inflammation,

Use fibre supplements and good probiotics, eat well balanced foods.

As fruitgirl says, the colon functions pretty good on its own to eliminate, you know that by how it reacts when there`s inflammation.

Your friend, while trying to be helpful, is not understanding what you have.

q
Posted 8/6/2012 8:25 PM (GMT 0)
what all the smart folks before me said - it's not like we have dirty pipes - they are inflamed - and it's not, in most cases, bad bacteria, just a shortage of good -

are you having specific issues or just exploring new ideas ?
Posted 8/9/2012 3:43 PM (GMT 0)
I'm pretty convinced it was my truing some retarded colon cleansing regime that led to my devloping UC to begin with. I was a moron. Well, I'm still a moron, but I digress...I was uneducated in the ways of the innards until it was too late.
Posted 8/9/2012 4:07 PM (GMT 0)
i have read colonics are a very bad idea for UCers
Posted 8/9/2012 6:08 PM (GMT 0)
I've also read that colonics are bad for UC'ers.

And just think - you are pushing a tube of some sort into an already inflamed area and probably irritating it. I know I hate cleaning out (enema) for a flex sig and hate to think how much I'm irritating my already poor irritated colon :(.
Posted 8/9/2012 6:22 PM (GMT 0)
Bad idea. Colon cleanses are about as good for IBD patients as prepping for a colonoscopy, ie, not very. And at least with a colonscopy prep you know what you are getting: who knows what kind of irritants may be in a commercial colon cleanser.

It's also a complete myth that colons are a hotbed of rotting red meat, etc. and need 'cleaning' in the first place. Rotten red meat most definitely does not accumlate in your bowels. It's also really quite arrogant of the quacks who peddle their remedies to assume that their products can detoxify the body better than the body itself - if that makes any sense. What I mean is your kidneys, liver, etc. all do an exquisitely more refined job of detoxing than any crude man-made product.
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