Hi guys, lately constipation becoming common among us. And lots of us keep on ignoring it, which will lead to a numbers of sickness that poof out in our daily life. So far i do come across this problem. During work time when need to rush here n there, the timming to released the major stool also gone off track.. any1 come across with which high fiber consumption to ease out our stool. Hope to learn from forum-er. ty. Hope i didnt open another topic on the same issue, cause i search up and down cant find any tread leading to this.

This post has been edited by JXplod: Sep 18 2009, 09:31 AM

bananas and papayas.

prune juice works like wonder!
Try sunsweet prune juice. Instant effect for me

eat more fruits and fibers..

We need about 25-30 gms of fiber daily. Most of our Malaysian diets give us about 15 gms if you eat your quota of fruits and vegetables.

There should be both soluble and insoluble fiber.
Soluble fiber - oats, bran, nuts,fruits
Insoluble fiber - wholewheat products, root veg, veg skin, fruit skin.

Soluble fiber acts as a sponge while insoluble fiber acts like a brush to clean.

Of course drink plenty of water to wash away the dirt.

You also need calcium/magnesium to help move the "rubbish " along your small intestines.

If you are not able to get that amount of fiber in your diet you can also try fiber drinks.

PM me if you would like more info.

actually many ways can help

from our food intake, just eat more papayas.. drink more water..eat more fibre..

there r also some medicine for u to solve this problem too.

Thanks for the advice and info sharing, so far my friend introduce me one of the high fiber drink call ez out. Let see how it goes after 8 to 10 hours.

Besides fibers ,prune juice, papayas, laxative products, you can try out coffee, it will give you a mild diarrhea.

coffee can help relieving constipation? is that for real? any source/reference? because i drink coffee almost every morning (not decaf) and still having constipation?

Is there any long term constipation effect? I always have hard time pooing ><

If you are having constipation on a permanent basis try some of the earlier suggestions.

Chronic constipation can lead to piles when you strain too much during your bowel movement.
So it is always best to avoid that kind of situation.

Of course there are laxatives available but dependency on them will mean you will never do it on your own after a while.

I have not heard about caffeine as a way to relieve copnstipation. It in fact depletes your water and should be avoided.
So if you are a coffee drinker you need to drink more water to compensate for the loss.

Laxatives are not advisable. Well, a banana after meal would just do the trick.

Regards, Joey

Try doing some sit-ups before going to bed.

haha so how's it until now?

I don't get why I'd need a drink called ez-out sells fiber in a powder form, when I can get fiber in my fruits, beans, yams and stuff like that.

Just come bk from raya holiday, till now only can online reply. Ya try that out already can see the effect of it after 10 hours.can feel the stomach rumbling and rush for toilet after that.

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Added on September 22, 2009, 10:02 pmhi pizzaboy, ya is true can get fiber from fruits and vegetables, but sometime due to my hectic schedule sometime is not easy to pick up a fruit and eat it or get as much vegetable during meals, as u know tend to end up in fast food... That why need something extra to add in my eating habit to clear off the waste. As least have some other forums knowledge to share about.

This post has been edited by JXplod: Sep 22 2009, 10:02 PM

just bought a 8 bottles pack prune juice extract by BRANDS from Guardian just now...hope it works..
but kind of expensive at RM24 for 8 small bottles... any other recommended prune juice
brands ?? prefer those without sugar, added preservative and no colouring....thanks

haha.. good then.. just a simply method and get it solved d.. lol.

Prunes work very well from what I've heard.

But if all the things above doesn't work, you might wanna go for an X-Ray or those micro cameras from you bum. It might be complications like big intestines are tied up together causing blockage due to injury etc (no joke).

drink 2 glasses of warm warm water straight away after u wake up is a method i somehow find really work ! if u think 2 is not enough, 3 then. after few mins u'll feel the urge of doing ur 'business'!

Advocado said: '"But if all the things above doesn't work, you might wanna go for an X-Ray or those micro cameras from you bum. It might be complications like big intestines are tied up together causing blockage due to injury etc (no joke)."

The micro cameras u mentioned are actually fibre-optic scopes. The procedure is called colonoscopy. It is able to visualise the large intestine to look for any problems such as tumours or small polyps or bleeding. However, it is not recommended that everybody gets one cos it can be rather unpleasant. Unless the TS is >50 years old, or has a family history of colon cancer.

As mentioned by the forummers here, u can take all those high fibre food & fruits & also lots of water (>1.5 L per day). Also try this natural high fibre supplement: Psyllium husk. It can be found in most pharmacies.

This post has been edited by zee77: Sep 23 2009, 08:46 AM

bananas

Yup, but i prefer take prunes whole not juice, papaya works wonder and another is dragon fruit. Coffee doesn't help cos I'm immune to it as caffeine is my source of fat loss

Detox your body, get kinohimitsu 6 days detox. After six days your bowel movement will get normal. 2 lit of water pls

Ya consuming high fiber drinks need to drink lots of water, so only can see its effectiveness. Ya i do agree papaya works, but dragon fruit wise so far eat plenty of it also nothing happen. Tht my personal experience. Thanks for all the forums open minded sharing knowledge.

You can try do more physical exercise as this improve your bowel movement....

Besides, you can also try drink warm lemon water: Squeeze the juice of lemon into lukewarm water and drink it. This will provide you the necessary amount of fluids, which help in curing constipation.

IIve tried eating more vege but nothing works.prunes r useless as well,i ate half a box of sunsweet prunes n nothing.doctor gave me some herbal laxative oso doesnt work i'm not over 50 and i don't have family history of colon cancer,what should i do?
i poo like once every other week (1-4 weeks once) and each time i poo my shit gets d toilet stuckz haha,does that mean i have a large intestine and izzit related to this matter?

BTW does pumpping up vit C consumption e.g. taking vit C tablets really ease constipation?

Try to drink wintermelon soup (the yellow old timun one) or ABC vege soup if u know these 2 soups. It really helps me as i also have consipation often. Prunes, bananas and all sorts of fruits x workin for me but after drinking the soups...waseh....very fast can go toilet for 'business' dy..

no banana, it will only cause constipation. dun believe? google it. banana is a natural source of enterosorben which is modern med used to cure diarrhea.
my advise: any citrus fruit. orange works the best, but will cause sour throat if eat in large amount

oh..that old timun not wintermelon lah...it's lo won kua rite,wintermelon is dung kua..ABC soup with carrots,,tomatoes n potatoes?okk will try both soups.

ooohhh i alwiz tot banana is good for constipation...ok then what about increasing vit C consumption aiding constipation:?

is not about vit c, citrus has the most natural fibre. just dun peel off all the white layer on the orange before u eat.

i eat lots of bananas and drink lots of water.
or just eat lots of oranges.

when i was teen, the problem was bad, then my mum gave me laxatives, it works initially, but eventually i got "immune" to it....

dun overload urself with fruits or so forth, eat normally and drink water regularly...

This post has been edited by leongal: Dec 5 2009, 11:56 PM

hey, im interested in this detox kinohimitsu
are you sure after 6 days my bowel movement will be normal?
is it temporarily or permanently?
because i'm suffering from constipation for so many years now.
currently, im taking fibre shield on alternate days and its working =)

drinking a lot of water helps.. seriously.. it even beats eating more vege n fruits.. dere was once i was having really bad digestion problem for about 1 or 2 months but i was eating fruits n vege.. a lot.. i was almost vegetarian that time.. but later i got fed up n start drinking a lot of water.. sumthing i read sumwhere.. it helped. i try my best to keep to 8 glesses a day.. but i think, wat really helped was d fact dat now i drink 1 big glass of warm water every morning. 2 if i have room for more . n of course watch for ur fibre intake.. it doesnt cost u anything nor does it take time to follow that.

nono i was asking if pumping up vit C in you body decreases constipation.this friend of mine told me everytime constipated,,she'll take a tablet of vit C n then she goes to the loo..n why muz we keep the white part on oranges?isnt that part bitter?but usually i juz eat oranges by cutting them open not peeling them open

natural way: eat lots and lots of fruits and vegetable...

medication: lactulose 10mls 3 times a day, get one from the pharmacy.

I learnt one thing about our guts is that it's not only the type of food you take in, it's the quantity of food.

I used to think it was the stomach acid pH that was the problem as well as fibre so used to eat more veggie and fruits. Didn't work.

The surprising thing that finally work was a cleaned diet (stir fry, not deep fry, less oil, less chilli, less creamy stuff) and controlling the portions of protein, fat and carbs as well as taking more omega 3 tablets and vitamin C.

I'm stilll amazed at how well that turned out.

becoz the bitter-whity part is the fibre. i think what your friend took is not only vit c, most probably is vit complex with high concentration of vit C.
So unintentionally, she took in also electrolyte which will keep fluid balance in your body. as you know electrolyte imbalance also one of the causes of constipation.
This is why sometime ppl said drink isotonic drink(100plus) will ease defecation, coz it restore fluid and electrolyte balance.

Wah..my bad. Yeap..its old timun. But wintermelon soup boil with barley seed and wolfberries (kei zhi) also can help in detoxicfication n lost some weight too. Yes. ABC soup with carrots,,tomatoes n potatoes.

Bran doesn't taste good but works well. Hence, I mix muesli with bran and serve with milk. That is my breakfast. Else, you can try high-fibre biscuits.

Always check the nutritional information for the fibre value. I usually get something above 30 per 100g for the bran. Haven try out biscuits though, should works too.

Last but not least, papaya before dinner. (I own half of the papaya and the other half to the rest of my family members)

For my case, the breakfast itself is enough to free me from constipation.

i used to be constipated for years. i tried many laxatives, many types of fruits but none work. Finally i found out from a doctor that it's because of the water i drink everyday. i used to drink RO water. I stopped and changed to mineral water, and it solved my problem.

also try those yogurt drinks, vitagen, yakult. they help too..

Do u drink a lot of tea?
Tea has diuretic effect which leads to dry stool.
Try reducing the amount of tea taken. See if it works.

Is that normal for having no pass motion for 2 to 3 days once a week?
Would it be categorized as a constipation?

From what I heard, everyone is different. Some only pass motion once a week but their stool seem normal.
I'm not sure also. But to me, constipation is hard stool and painful passing motion.

Agree! my friends pass motion about 3 times a week, but try to think this way, if one only pass motion once a week, it is pretty abnormal as it may sound.
Where the hell the food go if you eat without defecate out daily? so sometimes, i think the condition of not passing motion daily may be abnormal as it may sound.

I dunno. But I do know a person that is quite fat and she only pass motion once a week. But it seems everything is fine with her.

interesting to be talking about other people's bowel movement.
As long as the bowel movement is regular and constant, i am sure it is ok.
However, it is important to see what comes out too as your poops can tell alot about your health

Agree but I still thinks that it's better to pass motion every single day.

I know that each morning wake up drink a glass of water immediately before you brush your teeth, after that go sit on the toilet bowl for some time, practice every day and make it as a habit, you will eventually pass motion every day.

Stress and time constrain could also be the factor in pass motion difficulties.

True. I agree with it being regular and constant. I have friends passing motion after every meal, and I have friends passing motion every alternate days. All of them seem healthy.

Sometimes just too busy to even go to the toilet to pass motion.

My gf needs to take off-the-counter medicine - Ducolex every single day in order to pass motion.

Its sad to see her taking 5-6 small little yellow pills everyday.

Any suggestions to improve her situation?

banana, fiber and lots lots of vege and fruits~~ and don't sleep late at night.

banana - tried

fiber - tried

vege n fruits - tried worst den fiber no effect at all

Has she ever tried probiotics supplement?

It supplies good bacteria to the gut, and most ppl who had gut problem benifitted from it.

You can try small size, buy at local pharm, see how it goes

If it works, later can try other strains of good probiotics, that are more potent (as far as I know, the strains sold in Malaysia are generic ones)

The link shown below, seems to say that if you use such medication too much, your gut would be come "lazy"? ie no more peristalsis.
Not sure of such truth, but seems that person said she got off it later.

CLICK LINK HERE

I am taking probiotics almost usually, by consuming yoghurt (yoghurt is made using probiotics) that I made on my own -- use yoghurt maker EASIYO (sold at Caring pharmacy, cost RM109)

I dont use EASIYO premix powder to make my yoghurt, I used instead, FullCreamMilk Powder (or skimmed milk powder) 220grams per EASIYO bottle.
To "seed" my yoghurt, I use 2 capsules of probiotics supplement into the milk and let it incubate overnight. Usually after 24-36hrs, your youghurt should set using such apparatus. If until 36hr youghurt do not set, sth is wrong with your preparation, and the milk u use should best be discarded (if your probiotics didnt grow and make the yoghurt, other harmful bacteria may grow in it and it is advisable to just discard the milk if yoghurt didnt solidify at 36hrs)


Once you are nearly finish with that one bottle of yoghurt, you can take one spoonful of that nearly finish yoghrut, as a "seeder" culture, when making your next batch of yoghurt (no need to use extra new capsule from your supplement bottle). This means, any yoghurt that you have, can be used as the starter seeder culture (just one spoon is enough). So, those who do not have supplement probiotics may also use seeder culture from small sized yoghurt sold at various supermarkets. I would remind though, your yoghurt loses its good bacteria over time, so best to consume within one month (and not use after 1.5month).


When using EASIYO mix powder, I think you can use tap water (it will still set up, ie yoghurt will work), as I think EASIYO put something to neutralise the chlorine

If you are using your own milk powder, you cant use tap water, your probiotics will die due to chlorine. One must use water from special filter that excludes chlorine from tap water, or just buy the bottled water from supermarket (rev. osmosis type one, not mineral water though). Even the (external) water that one boil to incubate the milk using EASIYO setup should be unchlorinated water, as the chlorine can seep pass through the plastic container which holds the milk you want to turn into yoghurt.

Additional note: probiotics capsules are best kept in the fridge. However, note that probiotics supplements would be killed if you keep it in some type of "modern fridges". My hybrid-plasma Toshiba fridge actually keeps my veggies so long, that even after 2 wks, it looks like 75% fresh. This is because it produces plasma to kill bacteria and destroy certain gaseous compund that promote decomposition of veggies. I once realised my probiotics were killed by it, if I keep it more than 6 mo. in that fridge. Many modern fridges can kill bugs it seems.

An apple a day keeps constipation away~

carrot juice.....4-5 carrots....one nice flush after 10-15 mins of drinking

just my personal suggestion...
u all shud try eating dragonfruit..
buy the red one,don buy the white one...
after u eat,can solve ur problem..
trust me ....

Make your own yoghurt with raw milk and a viable culture. This will reestablish a proper balance of your intestinal flora and resolve many cases of constipation.

The cheapest way to resolve constipation is still to drink plenty of plain, old-fashioned water, ie, boiled tap water.

An average sized person will need to drink about 1.5 litres (1,500 ml) a day, not all at one go of course, but spread evenly throughout the day. If he/she exercises a lot or does heavy physical work leading to much perspiration, then naturally he would need to drink more than the 1.5 litres to replace the water lost through sweating.