| In one year, Louis XIII received 215 doses of purgatives, 212 enemas and 47 bleedings! |
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| No further deaths have been reported after procedures requiring barium enemas. |
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| In severe radiation proctitis, a short course of hydrocortisone foam enemas may be beneficial. |
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| There is no evidence that raw food, much less wheatgrass enemas, have ANY health effects positive or negative. |
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| Preparations requiring enemas may result in mechanical damage to bowel mucosa. |
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| Make sure the patient receives adequate fiber in their diet, but avoid laxatives and enemas. |
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| Do not use other laxatives, enemas, or suppositories unless your doctor tells you to. |
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| He scoffed at attempts to probe his mind, and was convinced that the medical staff had an unhealthy obsession about enemas. |
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| Dr. Haas suggests that enemas, colonics and cleansing diets with fiber supplements, under the guidance of a professional, can all be used to cleanse the colon. |
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| He advocated enemas, emetics, purgatives and sneezing powders. |
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| Exorcism, ointments, amulets and enemas were used as treatments in ancient Babylon, for example. |
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| There were no statistically significant differences between methylnaltrexone and placebo in the use of rescue therapies, enemas or disimpaction. |
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| Usually, oral laxatives should be increased when suppositories or enemas are needed. |
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| For instance, spinal radiography, computed tomography, barium enemas, and angiography expose our patients to higher doses of radiation than we might think. |
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| Depending on the part of your body being scanned, your doctor may ask you to take laxatives, enemas or suppositories, or temporarily modify your diet further. |
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| Patients waiting for non-urgent radiology examinations, such as CT scans, barium meals and enemas are now being assessed up to ten times quicker than two years ago. |
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| An example of this is in specialty guidelines for colon cancer screening, where radiologists recommend barium enemas while gastroenterologists recommend colonoscopy. |
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| If the problem persists, your doctor could recommend temporary measures such as medications, suppositories, laxatives or enemas. |
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| Do not give your baby enemas, laxatives or suppositories unless you are directed to do so by your doctor. |
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| Patients should be reminded that regular use of enemas is to be avoided since they can lead to dependency and increase constipation. |
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| Since the MES did not ask women to specify who carried out shaving or enemas in preparation for the birth, the percentages may include those that were self-administered. |
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| His addiction caused severe constipation, which required regular and humiliating enemas. |
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| Acupuncture, Bioresonance treatment, balneotherapy and cleansing of the colon with enemas fall into this group. |
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| I am taking seven juices, two enemas and liver capsules, acidol, and pancreatin. |
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| Each binge was followed by horrific sessions with aperients and enemas. |
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| Long-term medical intervention for these patients included cortisone enemas, 5-aminosalicylic acid suppositories and loperamide. |
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| Almost all hospitals have a policy not to do routine shaving or enemas. |
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| This theory, while conveniently explaining why ineffective alternative treatments, like laetrile and coffee enemas, fail, also allows a debilitating guilt to pervade the remaining days of a patient's life. |
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| Abominable practices stayed in place after 1989, treating birth as a medical emergency in which painful and humiliating procedures such as episiotomy, shaving and enemas were mandatory. |
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| Perhaps the most controversial recommendations are the guidelines for fasting and receiving enemas. |
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| At that time, Grigore was able to consume 6-8 juices and take 2-3 enemas a day. |
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| On the evening of the sixth day of hospitalization, 2 enemas were administrated 30 min apart to relieve prolonged constipation. |
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| It may also explain the benefits observed from 17th century tobacco smoke enemas. |
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| The disease is so debilitating that some turn to a treatment that is stomach-churning in its own right: enemas containing the faeces of a healthy donor, often a spouse. |
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| They may also use laxatives, diuretics, ipecac or enemas after eating. |
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| If you've used laxatives and enemas for a long time, your family doctor may suggest that you wean yourself off of them slowly to give your system a chance to return to normal. |
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| Mesalamine suppositories are used to treat proctitis and rectal symptoms, while mesalamine enemas are used to treat more extensive distal ulcerative colitis. |
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| The same can be said for treating asthma with hydrogen peroxide, infections with Goldenseal or cancer with coffee enemas. |
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| Before elective colorectal operations, in addition to intravenous preoperative antibiotic prophylaxis, the colon should be mechanically prepared by use of enemas and cathartic agents. |
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| The patient's physicians had always allowed him to indulge a gargantuan appetite, countering his intake and regulating his embonpoint by a heroic diet of purges and enemas. |
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