OT-Bowel Blockage [was: Update, Dr. Lawrence]

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Bren wrote:

>Dr. Lawrence became quite ill before my Friday Bar-B-Q, he is currenly

>in a Nashville hospital with a bowel blockage. He may fly home

>today. ... People, eat more raw fruits, raw(not roasted) nuts and raw

veggies,

>preferrably organic.

This is good diet advice. But if you get a bowel blockage anyway, often

one high dose of Vitamin C will get the peristaltic action sufficiently

going.

It also may help to take a syringe or medicine dropper full of vitamin E

oil or

olive oil or what have you and squirt it up yourself, too, then lie down

in bed

on your side on a towel or something and relax until you feel the urge.

When you sit on the throne put your feet up on something so that your knees

are above your hips. It may hurt getting unblocked but if you can relax and

go with it you'll save yourself a trip to the hospital and I promise you'll

be fine.

A few weeks ago my husband embarrassedly told me he thought he was going

to have to see a doctor and finally told me why. I gave him a glass of

V8 with

6 grams of powdered vitamin C mixed in (this was in addition to the 2 grams

he takes every day, divided am and pm). We happened to have vitamin E oil,

and an extra needless syringe from when one of our cats was ill. At first

he balked at squirting himself up, but then decided to do it.

Afterward I gave him a towel to lie down on and it wasn't long before he was

able to be successful, despite the pain at passing something of that size.

He was sore for the rest of the night and even some next morning, but by

next

evening he was fine.

BTW, this also works with constipated cats. About a gram of vitamin C will

do the trick and you don't have to squirt them up with any oil.

Best health,

Jo