I'm confused. This poor woman is 75, has had 10 kids, and can't push out a poop. Shouldn't she be more concerned about having it just fall out on its own? _______ Happy Crappin' Homegrown Media Network
According to WebMD
"Most acute fissures need some home treatment, including soaking in a shallow tub of warm water (sitz bath) several times a day, increasing fiber in the diet, and taking stool softeners or laxatives. Some people find relief within a day or two of home treatment. Although your pain may go away, it may take several weeks for the fissure to heal completely. Occasionally fissures heal without treatment.
Try to prevent constipation, which can keep a fissure from healing. The pain of a fissure may make you anxious about having bowel movements. However, trying not to have bowel movements will only increase constipation and create a cycle that keeps the fissure open and painful.
Drinking lots of water or other fluids also will make stools soft and easy to pass.
You may want to use a nonprescription ointment such as zinc oxide, Preparation H, Anusol, or 1% hydrocortisone to soothe anal tissues. However, some evidence suggests that anesthetic preparations such as Anusol may delay healing.1 Talk with your health professional about whether you should use these medications for a short period.
If a fissure lasts a long time (chronic), you probably will need a prescription medication such as nitroglycerin ointment or the high blood pressure medications nifedipine and diltiazem, which are taken as pills. Nifedipine is also available as an ointment, but diltiazem is not yet available as an ointment in the United States. These medications may decrease the resting pressure of the internal anal sphincter, which can allow the edges of the fissure to come together and heal.
Botulinum toxin (Botox) is gaining wider use as a treatment for chronic anal fissures. An injection of Botox temporarily paralyzes the internal anal sphincter, reducing resting pressure and allowing the fissure to heal.2
You may need to consider surgery if medications do not stop your symptoms. The most commonly used surgery is lateral internal sphincterotomy. In this procedure, a health professional cuts into part of the internal sphincter to relax the spasm that is causing the fissure."
There once was an Iowan named Shoff
who one night in the middle of a bloody good boff
heard the shrieks of the very youngest Shoff
“Daddy, Daddy the potty is broken the lid’s blown off”
With a shutter and a shake he donned his skivvies ran out to the trough
only to slip in headlong with bare feet kicking… oh yes his shoes were off
After an hour of wonder as to what had stopped her own bloody good boff
did the lady of the house, the lovely Mrs. Shoff
go to seek her suitor and find him still in said trough.
With quick and unyielding tug on his wood and a snicker and scoff
did the lovely Mrs. Shoff unearth her man, and got him off!!!
I'm confused. This poor woman is 75, has had 10 kids, and can't push out a poop. Shouldn't she be more concerned about having it just fall out on its own?
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Happy Crappin'
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