Intestinal lavage itself is a treatment
6%-7% of immune cells and immunoglobulins in human body are concentrated in the intestine, which is not only the most important digestive organ in our body, but also the main battlefield of human immunity. It determines people's physical condition.
"Intestinal lavage itself is a therapeutic means, but now it is hyped as a cosmetic means for commercial purposes." Xu Le, chief physician of the Department of Gastroenterology, Beijing Hospital, said that intestinal lavage has no so-called beauty, detoxification, weight loss and other effects, but it is a temporary behavior in medical practice. It is generally used for patients with long-term constipation and colonoscopy. Frequent intestinal lavage not only easily leads to electrolyte disorder, intestinal flora disorder, but also causes dangers and sequelae such as intestinal perforation if improperly used. "Intestinal lavage has no effect on skin color improvement, freckle removal and beauty." You Liping, chief physician of the dermatology department of China-Japan Friendship Hospital, said that it is unfounded to say that washing intestines can remove spots and beauty, and it is a psychological effect.
The principle of intestinal lavage is only to thoroughly relax the bowels
"Now most enemas are disposable bottles with tubular openings at the upper end; Some are disposable bags with anal canal. Because of the difficulty of disinfection, reusable enema equipment is now mainly limited to personal use. The temperature of the enema liquid should be as close as possible to the body temperature. " A seller who sells "home enema machines" online said. He said that his own enema machine has obtained the "production license of drug supervision machinery", and there are clear taboos-"severe anemia, hernia, patients less than one year after abdominal surgery, cardiopulmonary renal insufficiency, ulcerative colitis, Hirschsprung's disease, acute abdomen, intestinal bleeding, severe aortic hemangioma, patients with severe heart disease, pregnant women, patients with gastrointestinal bleeding, and patients undergoing anorectal surgery" are prohibited.
Intestinal lavage itself is to inject pure water or other liquids into the intestine in a large volume at one time through the anal canal for lavage, which is beneficial to the discharge of stool. In the final analysis, bowel washing is just a more thorough laxative similar to the effect of Kaisailu. Kaisailu-style bowel washing can relieve constipation and reduce the feeling of abdominal distension caused by constipation, but it can't prevent constipation. "When the stool is so dry that laxatives can't be excreted, you can relieve constipation by injecting normal saline into the intestine to induce intestinal peristalsis, but this is a one-time behavior and has no therapeutic effect." Li Shirong, deputy director of the Department of Gastroenterology, General Hospital of Beijing Military Region, said that intestinal lavage was originally used as an auxiliary means to treat stubborn constipation or colonoscopy, not for commercial purposes advocated without scientific basis.
Besides being used as a local laxative, intestinal lavage is also used to clean the intestine before surgery and examination (such as colonoscopy). Li Shirong said, "In the past, drugs were used to wash the intestines. Manual enema can reach the descending colon, and machine enema can reach the transverse colon. This method is mainly used for patients who have difficulty in taking medicine orally, or some drugs that need to be absorbed in the colon. When some drugs reach the colon by oral administration, they have no efficacy. In order to ensure the concentration of drugs reaching the affected area, drugs are usually added to the water and then enema is given to the patient. After the drugs stay in the intestine for a period of time, the liquid medicine is discharged from the body together with intestinal waste after the colon fully absorbs the drugs. However, clinical practice shows that this is not only inconvenient for patients, but also the effect of local treatment is not very good. I stopped using it like this later. Injecting drugs doesn't work, let alone washing the intestines for the so-called beauty effect. " Therefore, it is not very good to use intestinal lavage to expel toxins from the body.
There is very little stool for more than three days
"The normal metabolism of human beings is from 24 hours to 72 hours, and the intestinal mucosa is very smooth, so it is impossible to stick to things. Feces rarely exist in human intestines for more than three days, and even if there is stool for more than three days, the amount is very, very small. Moreover, 9% of the stool is water. If you want to lose weight through the so-called' clearing the stool', what you lose is just water. In fact, through normal diet and drinking water, the stool in the human body can be completely cleared. " Li Shirong explained the truth of the so-called "lodging".
For normal people, all nutrients, including fat, are absorbed in the small intestine, and the nutrients reaching the end of the small intestine are very small. In other words, there are no nutrients in the feces of the large intestine. The large intestine only participates in stool formation and absorbs water and electrolytes. Intestinal lavage only washes away the feces and other wastes in the large intestine, but also takes away a very small amount of nutrients in the small intestine. Basically, there is no "old residue", and what is discharged seems to clean up the dirty things hidden in the intestines, but it is actually just water. The so-called weight loss is also a temporary "water reduction". The so-called "detoxification", that is, normal defecation, can already excrete the "toxins" in time, without the help of physical pressure enema.
Harm of intestinal lavage
It is easy to cause intestinal perforation and destroy the balance of flora
"From the doctor's point of view, I don't advocate that people often wash their intestines. Normal people's intestinal flora is the balance of beneficial bacteria and harmful bacteria, and frequent intestinal lavage will inevitably destroy the balance of intestinal flora." Li Shirong said that the propaganda of commercial profit purpose often contains false and exaggerated elements, and doctors consider it from the perspective of ensuring people's health. Lan Ping, chief physician of the Department of Gastrointestinal and Anal Surgery, the Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, said, "If the staff who do the specific operation of bowel lavage have not received medical training, they can't deal with it effectively in case of unexpected situations, which may also cause harm to patients. For example, if you don't know what liquid to use and how much to use, it is easy to be dangerous, such as irrigation and perforation of the intestine. When washing intestines, a catheter should be inserted into the depth of the rectum about 6 cm through the anus. The operating rules are strict that one person should have one tube, that is, the inlet and outlet pipes must be used once. If the operation is illegal, it may not only destroy the acid-base balance in the patient's body, but even cause intestinal perforation and reverse infection in the patient. In addition, there is no guarantee that the liquid injected into the intestine will not flow out at all. If some people's anal sphincter is loose, pouring 1 ml, it may flow out 5 ml, especially for women. The anus is very close to the urethra and female private parts, and it is easy to pollute the urethra and female private parts when the stool in the lavage fluid flows out. " Frequent bowel washing can lead to more relaxation of anal sphincter and insensitivity to defecation.
"Intestinal lavage should be operated by medical personnel, who know how much water to infuse and how to observe the reaction during intestinal lavage. Because the amount of enema water is very particular, personal tolerance is also different. Especially for patients with diseases, including intestinal adhesion, volvulus, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, Meckel's diverticulum, and even tumor patients, careless bowel washing will lead to intestinal perforation. " Li Shirong stressed.
It is easy to get black bowel disease if you take drugs for expelling toxin and clearing intestines for a long time
Q Can you lose weight and clearing intestines if you drink slimming tea and clearing intestines on the market for a long time?
Some diet pills or health products contain senna, aloe, rhubarb and cassia seed. If you eat them often, your intestines will turn black. The popular Aloe Vera capsule, Changrun tea, and Changqing tea in the market are easy to cause this kind of melanosis coli, commonly known as melanosis coli, which means that macrophages in the inherent membrane of colon contain lipofuscin-like substances, that is, non-inflammatory lesions caused by mucosal pigmentation. The detection rate of melanosis coli in patients who take anthraquinone glycoside laxatives for a long time is getting higher and higher.
There are many patients in the outpatient department who buy their own medicines for beauty or weight loss. There are a large number of anthraquinone glycosides in pharmacies. Long-term use of laxative drugs will cause intestinal melasma, that is, the mucosa of the large intestine will turn black, which is a precancerous lesion. Moreover, taking such drugs for a long time will form drug dependence, and abdominal distension and constipation will be particularly serious.