Sometimes, it may still go back. The most dangerous complications are when there is a pile-up of too much faeces in the rectum and anus, what is termed faecal impaction. Both prolapse and faecal ...

Constipation is no joke, at least not when it develops into faecal impaction as mine did early on, despite a regime of laxatives. I’ll spare you the details, but agonising, foul and without ...

MOLAXOLE also works in very bad constipation (called faecal impaction), as determined by your doctor. Macrogol 3350 increases the volume of faeces by binding water leading to a normalisation of ...

(On his own illness) I saw a specialist who asked me 'Are you familiar with the phrase faecal impaction?' I said I think I saw that one with Glenn Close and Michael Douglas. When the inventor of ...

Nausea, headache. Increase in faecal content of water with distension of intestinal walls and activation of peristalsis and acceleration of intestinal transit. Linaclotide Plecanatide Guanylate ...

Dog owners need to be aware that while playing fetch on the beach is certainly a blast, it can quickly lead to sand impaction. According to the Animal Emergency & Referral Center of Minnesota ...

The faecal transplant, also known as trans-poo-sion, surely has the title of medicine's most disgusting procedure. It is pretty much what you are imagining - part of a faecal stool is taken from ...

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Surgeon Gabriel Weston travelled to Rhode Island in the US to watch Dr Colleen Kelly perform a faecal transplant — a procedure that has a 90% success rate when used to treat the life-threatening ...

A post-mortem examination found her large bowel was "grossly distended" and her cause of death was a large bowel obstruction due to faecal impaction. As it was classed as natural causes ...

Thank you to everyone who has provided a faecal sample from their cat for our study. As you know, we have been looking at the intestinal flora of cats and whether certain factors affect the kind of ...