Can Colon Irrigation Help You Win the Brawl with the Bowl?

Japanese children's author Tarō Gomi was right, "Everyone Poops." Unfortunately, that particular bodily function is easier said than done sometimes. "Constipation can have a dramatic impact on the patient's overall well-being, including anxiety, depression, and time lost off work," Gavriel Meron, chairman and CEO of HyGIeaCare Inc., told MD+DI. Constipation about 60 million people in the United States alone, Meron said, which is why there is no shortage of over-the-counter constipation products on pharmacy shelves. But for a lot of people, Meron said, those products simply don't help.  "And their life, it's really not a life because they take very, very strong laxatives and the thing with the laxatives is they don't work, they don't work, and then all of a sudden they have an explosive event and it's an urgent explosive event," Meron said. "What happens is when they start taking these strong laxatives they don't want to go out. They don't want to go to a wedding, they don't want to go to a movie, they don't want to go to a restaurant because they're waiting and wondering 'when is this explosion going to happen'?"    A study recently published in the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology suggests the HyGleaCare colon irrigation system could be a good solution for chronically constipated patients. Meron was the founding CEO of Given Imaging, the company that developed the PillCam, which Covidien bought for $860 million before its merger with Medtronic. He...
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