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Nature scenes hang on the dimly lit walls, a slow flute melody fills the room, and a diaper pad lies on the operating bed. This was a bad idea. I can t go through with this.

Desperate to stall the procedure, I search the certificates on the wall for another interview question. License to perform colonics, massage therapy certification, ordained minister with the Universal Life Church. Really?

Yes, says Alain Menard, the specialist at Sarasota s Colon Therapy Clinic. The energy goes through me into you, that s all I do. ... God works through me.

I ll think back on this later as I lay on his table, connected by plastic tube to a pump on the wall. All that time I d spent in church as a teenager, wondering what it was that people were feeling when they said they were on fire for Christ and why I couldn t feel it. Maybe what I d really needed was for God s love to flow, all clear and glistening, up into my large intestine.

This practice, colonic irrigation, dates back in some form or another to ancient times. It lost prominence in the age of modern science, but its popularity resurged with the rise of alternative medicine. And detoxification, which includes fasting, enemas and the leech therapy touted by Demi Moore, is now trendy in celebrity circles. Last month, England s Daily Mirror reported that Britney Spears gets regular colonics at a Beverly Hills clinic.

The idea behind detoxification is that the Standard American Diet, which detox texts refer to by its acronym, fills our bodies with toxins like animal hormones, ethanol and harmful bacteria. These toxins get lodged in every cranny, especially the intestinal folds, where they suppress the human experience that nature intended. Unless you flush them out, you re bound to be groggy, pimple-faced, seated with a frightened sort of malaise in the monstrous shadow of 21st-century life.

Menard tells me that with regular colon cleansings, I ll think more clearly, sleep more soundly and see colors in brighter hues. I try to think about this as I lie on the table-bed, my colonic about to start.

Turn on the left side, he orders.

I do as he says, and he does what he needs to do. I try to keep cool, grit my teeth, but finally I can t help it and I drop an F-bomb on him. Then it s done. I m connected.

Got good muscles there, he says. Better to be tight than too loose at your age.

I turn over on my back, despite feeling that I can t possibly do so, and check out the equipment. Two tubes, one of them inflow and one of them outflow, lead away from a pump machine on the wall and converge at the accursed nozzle. To get things started, Menard pinches the outflow tube shut.

I feel very funny, I say.

It s not a massage, Menard reminds me later, but the thing is, neither is surgery.

He says cleansing the colon and purifying the diet can treat the majority of ailments, from bad skin to autism to cancer. Of doctors, he says, If everybody had a clean colon, they d be out of business.

They think that by getting everybody on insurance, they re going to get rid of cancer, he said. It s not going to happen. ... Get rid of all those chemicals and pharmaceutical companies and you re going to see the cancer going away.

Mucus and waste can build up in the colon over one s lifetime, he says, harboring carcinogens and other toxins. From the colon, they enter the bloodstream and disseminate throughout the body. The reverse is also true, he says. A clean colon will act as a sink for toxins elsewhere in the body.

The medical community does not entirely support these claims.

Those ideas are complete fantasies, says Stephen Barrett, a retired doctor of psychiatry who runs the website Quackwatch.org

It s well known that the colon does not cause poisons to be absorbed into the body.

Barrett says nutrient absorption takes place higher up the digestive tract, particularly in the small intestine. And if the colon were caked with old waste, doctors would see it during colonoscopies.

They don t see those crusts, he says. What they see, usually, is a glistening pink tube that is moist and that things normally pass through.

Menard says that if Barrett s right, and our colons aren t clogged, then why are there so many laxatives on the market?

Most laxatives work by liquefying waste or stimulating peristalsis, the pumping action of the digestive tract, and Menard did both when he pinched off the outflow tube connected to me.

Now warm water flows into my insides. Menard lets go, and peristalsis starts. He squeezes and releases the outflow tube to create suction.

My stomach feels like it would at the onset of diarrhea. Then it s like the sensation you get slurping through a straw, except here the motion is reversed.

Trying to relax, I study the flow back toward the pump on the wall, a parade of condemned criminals.

What kind of stuff have you seen come through that tube? I ask Menard.

Some food that people haven t eaten in 20 years comes out, like corn.

He goes on.

Worms. Parasites, he says. I had a friend who was doing colonics years ago, and he got a worm out of one guy, it was like 20 feet long. At night that worm used to go back up, all the way up (to the throat) to look for food. ... He could feel it.

According to Menard, one of his patient lost 45 pounds after his colonic.

To keep things moving along, Menard is prodding and massaging my abdomen. I m starting to feel more at ease. We get to chatting about current events in his native France, and I tell him about my travels with a Frenchman last fall. He tells me I need to eat less dairy because it s clogging me up with mucus. You got it, I say.

Then it s over. I feel a strange sense of loss when he disconnects me, strangely alone. I step on the scale, to see how much weight I ve lost, and then I approach Menard s desk.

So, what do you want to do now? I ask him.

He looks at me funny. I clarify for him that I didn t know if it was time for me to pay or take a post-colonic survey or what.

However, maybe on some unconscious level, I thought he might want to, you know, hang out or something. Certainly we ve formed a bond unlike any other.

But I just pay him the $70 and leave his office. It s almost unfair, I think, that I have nothing to remember things by, save a little waddle in my step, while I ve left him with 1.7 pounds of me.

Hirschsprung s disease treatment

Spasm Changduan short, light symptoms of constipation, could first adopt a comprehensive non-surgical therapy, including regular use isotonic saline Xichang (irrigation requirements of equal access, Jiyong hypertonic, salt water or soapy water permeability), extended Anus, glycerin suppository, ease laxative, and can be used acupuncture or Chinese medicine treatment, to avoid siltation in the stool in the colon. If the above method of treatment does not work, although the shorter of the giant colon should be operated on.

Where spasm Changduan long, constipation serious need for radical surgery, the most current

Soave s operation). If children with acute enterocolitis, or nutritional risk as obstacles to development, can not tolerate a radical surgery, intravenous fluid replacement blood transfusion should be held to improve the general situation after the radical surgery, such as colitis can not control, abdominal distention vomiting, In time for colostomy fistula, after further radical surgery.

The mechanism

Hirschsprung s basic pathological changes in the wall between the muscle and mucous membranes of nerve plexus in the absence of ganglion cells, no myelin of the increase in the number of sympathetic nerve fibers and Biancu, Hirschsprung s disease, also known as no - Ganglion cells of (aganglionosis), due to the absence of ganglion cells and reduced to promote the loss of disease-Changduan normal peristalsis, often in a spasm state, and formed functional obstruction and feces through the difficulties, spastic bowel proximal Siltation due to the long stool gradually expanding, while a giant hypertrophy colon. In fact the main Hirschsprung disease in the spasm Changduan, about 90% of cases without ganglion cells in the rectum and sigmoid Changduan remote, individual cases affect the entire colon, or only in the terminal ileum end of the rectum. Neonatal period due to cramps and intestinal lesions of the colon or small intestine in all the great expansion, repeated complete obstruction of symptoms, the greater the age of colon hypertrophy expansion of the more obvious, are becoming more limited.

Symptoms

1. Meconium from the delay, intractable constipation in children with abdominal distention due to differences in the length of intestinal diseases have different clinical manifestations. Spasm of the longer, the sooner the symptoms of constipation appears more serious. More than 48 hours after birth without meconium from or only from a small amount of meconium, to be 2 to 3 days or even a low part of obstruction symptoms, vomiting, abdominal distention not defecation. Spasm of the elderly do not, the rectal examination or warm saline enema can emit a lot of meconium and gas and ease the symptoms. Spasm of not elderly, obstruction and more difficult to ease the symptoms, and sometimes required emergency surgery. Obstruction symptoms eased after the abdominal distention and constipation, rectal enema needed to be expanded in order defecation, no serious development for the enema not defecation, abdominal distention gradually increase.

2. Malnutrition long-term growth retardation abdominal distention constipation, loss of appetite will enable children, and affected the absorption of nutrients. Fecal deposition hypertrophy expansion of the colon, abdominal intestinal type may appear generous, and sometimes reach the intestinal loop covered with feces and bezoar.

3. s Disease associated with enterocolitis is the most common and serious complications, especially the neonatal period. Its cause is not yet clear, is generally believed that long-term obstruction from a few days ago, the proximal colon secondary hypertrophy expansion, the wall is the fundamental cause of bad circulation, on the basis of a number of children with immune dysfunction or allergic allergic constitution and a The enterocolitis. It was also suggested that the bacteria and virus infection, but have no stool culture bacteria growth. Colon involvement as the main site, mucosal edema, ulcers, limitations of necrosis, inflammation of muscle after the performance of serous congestive edema thickened with abdominal exudative form exudative peritonitis. Children with systemic ask all of a sudden deterioration, abdominal distention serious, sometimes diarrhea and vomiting, diarrhoea because of the large intestine and the expansion of intestinal fluid accumulation, a high fever dehydration acid poisoning, environmental faster, blood pressure decreased, if not promptly treated, can cause high mortality rates.

Diagnosis

Newborn Hirschsprung with other causes of intestinal obstruction such as low atresia, colon atresia, meconium constipation, newborn peritonitis, and other identification.

The larger infants, children and anorectal narrow and oppression caused tumor cavity and outside the secondary s disease, colon weakness (such as hypothyroidism caused by children with constipation), constipation and children s habit of idiopathic megacolon (More than 2 years after the sudden onset, as the internal sphincter dysfunction, in an integrated with the main conservative treatment) of identification.

With enterocolitis with viruses, bacteria enteritis or sepsis identification of intestinal paralysis.

Prognosis

Hirschsprung the diagnosis and treatment of a great progress in recent years, children can get early diagnosis of early treatment, after the recent long-term effects than satisfied. However, some children with more frequency after the stool or incontinence, bowel require a longer time to practice. 2007-11-06 article from the China Health World Network channel of general surgery Hirschsprung treatment, symptoms http://www.39world.com

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