A healthy colon is essential to living a good life, and that’s why it’s extremely important to cleanse your colon regularly. Everything we eat ends up in our bowels as toxins. As these toxins build up in our colon, negative effects start coming up, like being overweight or constipated. So, how do you cleanse your colon? There are two main ways, which are to buy colon cleansing products, or to see a doctor and have him clean it out for you. Either way can work, but it’s all about doing what you feel is best for your body.

 

The symptoms of someone needing a colon cleansing are fatigue, headache, weight gain, and low energy. Now, most of you are probably thinking that even with those symptoms, it’s simply not worth the suffering to, simply, get rid of a few minor symptoms. Many would agree with you, but having your colon cleansed, also, dramatically decreases your chances of getting colon cancer, that sounds nice doesn’t it?

If you wish to go about colon cleansing with certain products, then you should go about it with powdered or liquid supplements. You take some supplements by mouth, others, you take via the underside. Either way, the idea is to force the colon to discard all of the toxins in it, thus cleaning it. You can find these products on the internet, in health food stores, supermarkets, and in pharmacies. They include enemas, laxatives, strong herbal teas, enzymes, powders, and antiparasite capsules.

If you wish to go about colon cleansing with the help of a doctor, then here’s what you should expect. Colon irrigations, as they’re called by doctors, work similar to an enema, but they involve much more water and none of the odors or discomfort, that’s, obviously, why patients choose doing it this way. While you lie on a table, a machine or gravity-driven pump flushes up to 20 gallons of water through a tube inserted into your rectum. If you imagine it, it may not seem pleasant, but it really gets the job done and isn’t nearly as uncomfortable as the previous method.

After the water is in the colon, the doctor may massage your stomach. Then the doctor drains out the fluids and waste through another tube. The doctor may repeat the process, and a session may last for around an hour or so. The doctor, also, may use a variety of water pressures and temperatures and may or may not combine water with enzymes, herbs, coffee, or probiotics. It all depends on the seriousness of the cleansing.

As with all things, there are some side-effects to colon cleansing. The main things you can experience are vomiting, nausea, and cramps. Dehydration is a possible side-effect with all of the liquid that got drained out, which could cause mineral imbalances. If there are strings of mucus, that means that the body thinks that the cleanser is a toxin and is trying to destroy it. As always, there could be negative interactions with other medications, and possible infection.

You should avoid colon cleansing completely if you have diverticulitis, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, hemorrhoids (especially internally), tumors in your colon or underside area, recent bowel surgery, and heart or kidney disease. As a final thought, it’s a good idea to not let children undergo colon cleansing, as a mineral imbalance could spell trouble for them.