What helps constipation?

Question

Help!

Answer 1

Eat two cups of raw, fibrous vegetables (like carrots, celery, and cauliflower) daily, and drink plenty of filtered water.  The raw veggies pass through your system incredibly quickly, and sweep out your intestines as they travel.  It's safe, cheap, effective, and you should notice a significant difference in about 24 hours.

Answer 2

Aloe juice and magnesium.

Answer 3

constipation can be caused by the lack of exercise and the foods that you eat and the drinks that you take in. so to beat constipation, have a healthy balanced diet like eating food rich in fiber, drinking adequate amount of water each day, getting some healthy exercise to have a regular bowel movement. fruits like prunes, apples, apricot, papaya are great foods to eat for constipation.

Answer 4

Drink lots of water. Bran muffins, or cereals. Walk as much and often as you can. Laxatives if necessary. Avoid straining when you finally get to the bowel movement. Better to have to make a couple of low-strain movements than risk a hemorrhoid to add to your troubles!

Answer 5

A ripe banana

Answer 6

Try Life cereal every other day (not cinnamon type). It works well. If you've been constipate for a few days, try a laxative.

Answer 7

depends what kind of constipation or how severe it is.  If you just aren't regular enough, then eating more fiber, fruits, etc will help.  Make sure you're drinking plenty of water (you should be drinking 1/2 your body weight in oz per day).

There are products out there that can help you too.  Some people use laxatives which will help you immediately, but they probably wont solve the problem.

There are Colon cleanses out there that help you out a lot.  You end up healthier and it usually makes you more regular even after you stop taking them.  I personally use Oxypowder, but people rave about getting colonics as well.

However, if you're impacted you may need an e***a or even doctors attention.

Answer 8

Eat an apple or drink some hot coffee (black, no cream.)

Answer 9

Eat fruit. Like strawberry's. And then when you feel like it go to the bathroom.

Answer 10

As refined sugar causes constipation reducing your intake of white sugar or table sugar (sucrose) might perhaps help.  See item 134 in http://rheumatic.org/sugar.htm .

Answer 11

Well, you don't want to blow a hole in the toilet, so I suggest you start out slow and work your way up.  

Start out trying to drink a full glass of warm (almost hot) water.  Often, this is the easiest way to "move things along."

If that doesn't work, the add one tablespoon of epsom salt to another glass of warm water.  This will work in most cases.

If you find that you're still clogged up, you can drink two tablespoons of castor oil....  but hang on to your hiney!  You'll be going in no time at all and it won't be pleasant.

Answer 12

senna lax and now a generic at wal mart can be used everyday.Certain medications will cause hard dry stools.

Answer 13

Basically, lots of fiberous foods like oats, bananas, konyaku jelly.

Answer 14

Mulberry can be consumed as a juice, which provides excellent effects against gut diseases. It is mainly used in old people to relieve constipation. When half cup of blackberries is mixed with half cup of water, what you get is nothing short of an effective notion for constipation. For best results, have it first thing in the morning. Other cherries like Elderberry, Boysenberry etc can also be consumed in their juice forms. Rich in nutrients, they facilitate the peristaltic wave-like motion, thereby enhancing bowel movements.

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Answer 15

Take a 16oz. glass, fill 1/2 with lt. cranberry juice, add 1tablespoon of baking soda. I guarantee that within a hour you will go. Good way to cleanse the inner body without harsh chemicals of laxatives.

Answer 16

laxatives of any kind.

Answer 17

Prunes will do the trick.  The SunKist ones (dried) aren't that bad tasting either.

Answer 18

Fiber

Answer 19

Laxatives just make your system lazy. Try OTC stuff like Metamucil or Benifiber.

A doctor told me to eat an apple a day for that too.

Probotics  (sp) seem to make things easier too. Try Kefir, or a probotic yogurt.

Answer 20

rice

salad

prune juice

cereal (whole grain stuff)

bread (wheat, whole grain, seven grain, along those lines)

popcorn

vegetables

fruit

crutons

mashed potatoes

Pirate's Booty (i love that stuff!)

Laxitives (can buy them at longs and grocery stores)

Rich foods (Fudge, Prime rib, ect. However, if you eat too much, u can get diarhea and that sucks)

Good Luck!

Popcorn works the best for me