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Constipation
Constipation in the Elderly
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What are natural protocols to create daily bowel movements in paralized elders without requiring bulking up stool or rushing transit time?
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Shane1124
Answered Dec 2018
Can a seizure be the result of constipation?
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Midkid58
Answered Apr 2020
Senna substitutions?
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AnnReid
Answered May 2020
What is best to give an elderly man for diarrhea? Pepto or Imodium?
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Rainmom
Answered Jan 2020
My mom with dementia has not had a BM for 3 days. Should I be concerned?
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Maryhse
Answered Mar 2018
Running out of ways to ease her constipation. Any suggestions as alternatives to powerful prescription laxatives?
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cwillie
Answered Mar 2018
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Does anyone have experience with their loved one not trying to have a BM?
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GAinPA
Answered Jun 2018
My grandma is obsessed with pooping. Should I somehow regulate her Imodium and laxative use?
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Ahmijoy
Answered Jul 2018
Dementia and bowel obsession; any suggestions on how to monitor Dad's poop a little better?
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Ahmijoy
Replied Jul 2018
My mom as I've written has this fixation that she is constipated, but she is not. She has a bowel movement and two hours later she forgets. Why is that?
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Worriedspouse
Answered Dec 2017
Is it normal for a middle to advanced stage dementia patient to not have a bowel movement in a week?
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Midkid58
Answered Aug 2017
Anybody ever see constipation with antibiotics?
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gladimhere
Answered Nov 2015
Graphic Bathroom Question. Help with great aunts weird bathroom habit?
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monateru
Answered May 2018
Mom hasn’t had a bowel movement for 8 days. What can I do to help her go?
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cwillie
Answered Feb 2018
Bowel motility, consistency and frequency of when it comes out?
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cwillie
Replied Feb 2020
MIL is up every hour during the night to try to move her bowels or force "tingle". Any advice?
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Sweetstuff
Answered Sep 2019
My 96 yr old mother is in an assisted living facility. She calls me daily complaining about her need to have a bowel movement.
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Bob14930
Replied Sep 2019
Constipation, Linzess, stomach pain, won’t eat! Any advice?
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RSmith1232
Replied Mar 2020
My mom is 96 yrs old and lives in an assisted living facility. All she talks about and concentrates on is her bathroom habits.
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Grandma1954
Answered Jul 2019
My father, 86, has stage 5 PD, is on hospice care, and adamantly wants to see a urologist for what he describes as "pee in his legs".
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JoAnn29
Answered Jun 2019
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