The latest health trend to take over social media involves chugging salt water to release "toxins," but experts say the fad is dubious at best—and could even be dangerous. Proponents of the "salt ...

Neurogenic bowel dysfunction (NBD) profoundly affects psychological as well as physical aspects of quality of life in many patients with spinal cord injury (SCI), spina bifida, or multiple sclerosis.

The new transanal irrigation device is designed to help people facing defecation issues or stool leakage. It is estimated that 10-15% of the world’s population are affected by chronic constipation1 ...

Peristeen Plus (Coloplast) is a transanal irrigation system for managing bowel dysfunction. The company's instructions for use in this indication recommend that it should be used every other day to ...

I suffer from irritable bowel syndrome and reoccuring thrush. Conventional medicines and over-the-counter products do not seem to help. I was wondering if there was anything more permanent I could try ...

Christensen et al. (2006) was a randomised controlled trial in adults (n=87) that showed statistically significant improvements in bowel-related patient-reported outcomes for Peristeen compared with ...