: Re: Re: Digest Number 1648

[Guest guest]

Hi Bill:

No! not expecting to much!!! Just would like to find something that does work. I'm glad that all those things worked for Charlotte, but we do have other here that nothing works, no matter what they do. Then there are those that one tablespoon of homebrew may help. They just have to try and see what works best for them. Geez ! sometimes even enemas, laxitives and suppositories won't work for Fred. His been known to live in the bathroom for day's trying to go and that's not good either. There is no one answer for everyone , each is different and they have to try what works for them.

Take Care

Vera

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Hi all,

Are you all expecting too much???? Remember that for a MSA patient - have

having a BM for 3-4 days is not a REAL problem. Charlotte needed liquid Colace

(about a tsp. per day once she got regulated) for the last three years. Colace

is a stool softener and seemed to help prevent the golf ball stools. She also

ate bran flakes, and I pushed blueberries and any other fruit I could. Beans

are also high in fiber and she loved green bean casserole.

It is best to work with the diet and things the patient likes. If they like

pudding add Metamucil to it. If they like prunes, by all means push them but

if they don't like them, try something else. There are a lot of foods with

fiber - I remember that Barbara fed Ken burritos - now there is a fiber

meal )

BUT at times the patient may get constipated and impacted and Colace can help

at that point - but it may take several days of Colace to do the job. Other

things like enimas, laxitives and suppositories may be needed at that point.

However one tablespoon of a homebrew per day is NOT going to do the job. It

take much more fiber than that. Sorry there is no single magical answer, just

lots of fiber. Note too that exercise is needed to move the stuff through the

system, so that is a part of the picture.

Take care, Bill Werre

[Guest guest]

All this talk about moving the bowels!

ken too used about everything that has been mentioned for this. BUT, four

days before he died, ha asked for and ate a big bean Burrito from our special

local Mexican Deli. It worked so well that the Saturday caregiver called the

Friday caregiver to ask what he had given Ken to eat the night before. It

seems that the burrito was more effective than all the laxatives, etc., we

had tried over the years.

Barbara