Dementia Tending The Constipation Problem
What happens if a patient alongside Alzheimer's has constipation? What tin y'all do?
By Bob DeMarco
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Here is a skillful instance of a recent e-mail I received from our reader Julieta.
Bob,
"What happens if a patient alongside Alzheimer's starts to conduct hold constipation. I know they some times forget, but how tin nosotros straight them or remind them they the demand to go?
I produce non hateful to spot them on the lav or give them laxative but a ascendancy , a give-and-take or something that awake them or remind them the demand to produce it?
Thank you."
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As far every bit I know, there is no way to convince a dementia patient that it is fourth dimension to give-up the ghost to the bathroom. I know from personal experience alongside my mom, Dotty, that it is pretty difficult to explicate only close anything in addition to instruct them to cooperate.
Trying to argue alongside them, convince them, threaten them, or fifty-fifty cajole only doesn't operate well. What y'all tin produce is give-up the ghost a guide. I'll advise that everyone read or re-read this article.
I did conduct hold a big work alongside my mom in addition to constipation. It did conduct hold me a land to figure out what to do. I conduct hold been told yesteryear caregivers that the next article is really helpful.
Alzheimer's Care in addition to the Dreaded Bowel Movement
Let's only tell I tried everything nether the Sun until I endure solved the problem. Here is the skillful news, i time I solved the work alongside constipation it went away in addition to never came back.
Now inward straight response to Julieta. I don't recommend laxative pills. There are a long listing of reasons; but most importantly, I prefer natural solutions to problems rather than added some other pill or medication.
Here is how I solved the work alongside the dreaded bowel movement.
When my woman bring upwards woke upwards inward the morning time I would instruct her to drinkable close 3 ounces of prune juice. I genuinely bought a piddling iii ounce drinking glass for this purpose. It was non slow to instruct my mom to drinkable the prune juice, it took me a land to solve that work in addition to I depict the solution inward the article referenced above.
I should add together nosotros started alongside prunes. Unlike the prune juice my woman bring upwards willingly ate the prunes. Bad intelligence - they didn't work. The juice plant because inward combination alongside java it plant every bit a sort of diuretic.
So start the prune juice, in addition to and thus a loving cup of coffee. For the most business office this created the magic. After close xx minutes my woman bring upwards would tell - I conduct hold to go. No cajoling, no blah blah blah, she was on the displace to the bathroom. As fourth dimension went on I had to giver her some assistance.
It is genuinely amazing. This was a dreaded work for years. It genuinely stressed me out. Then similar a magic potion my woman bring upwards started telling me she had to go. I hateful announced she had to give-up the ghost to the bath in addition to went - generally on her own.
If y'all are a caregiver in addition to thus y'all are in all probability a lot similar me. I never idea I could live thus happy over some other person's bowel movement. Mom would go, in addition to I would live happy. I recollect she was pretty happy too.
Later on I started giving my woman bring upwards a probiotic (Align). I did this because she was having a lot of urinary tract infections in addition to was taking a lot of antibiotics. It seem to me that this also helped every bit business office of the solution to the dreaded Poop-E problem.
When dealing alongside a genuinely bad instance of constipation y'all tin also usage Citrate of Magnesia. This materials genuinely plant in addition to does solve the problem. As I depict inward the Dreaded Bowl Movement it also brings close a "volcanic' similar explosion of yes - Poop-E. Read the article in addition to y'all volition discovery out what I mean.
If y'all determine to usage the Citrate of Magnesia I advise y'all set adult incontinence apparel on your loved one (also known every bit a diaper). This was suggested to me afterwards I experienced the dreaded Poop-E explosion for the start time. If exclusively I had known or idea close this.
Along the way to solving the Poop-E work I also turned it into some fun. I added The Poop-E in addition to Prune Juice song. And had the assistance of the greatest caregivers assistance tool of them all - Harvey. Imagine Harvey singing the Poop-E vocal correct along alongside me. Want to instruct the greatest caregiver assistant of them all? Go hither to discovery in addition to how in addition to why.
Being a caregiver isn't easy. In dementia attention every fourth dimension nosotros solve i work - we instruct a novel one. It is an never ending process. However, i time y'all start to instruct the hang of work solving inward dementia care, y'all instruct amend at it. Solving problems does choose alongside it a sure enough sort of fulfillment. Makes y'all experience skillful close yourself. At least, that is what happened alongside me.
There is almost e'er a solution. Oddly, sometimes it conduct hold a lot of lawsuit in addition to mistake to figure out how to solve the problem. I had 8 in addition to a one-half years, 3,112 days, to figure things out. After the start 550 days I started to instruct amend in addition to amend at trying to figure out the problems. Plus, I met a lot of wonderful people that had answers. This is what the is all about.
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*** Taking probiotics land y'all are on an antibiotic handling tin assist tiresome the growth of Candida yesteryear filling your gut alongside beneficial bacteria. Probiotics assist keep the ease inward your gut, in addition to every bit a outcome cut back the side effects of the antibiotics.
*** Magnesium citrate increases H2O inward the intestines. Citrate of Magnesia is used every bit a laxative to care for occasional constipation.
*** Constipation is a mutual problem. Constipation ordinarily agency having problems going to the toilet; or, having a work passing difficult or painful stools (feces).
*** Dementia attention is the fine art of looking afterwards in addition to providing for the needs of mortal living alongside Alzheimer's affliction or a related dementia.
