ADISC - View Single Post - People abusing laxatives for bowel incontinence or irregularity

daria7483 · 03-05-2008

I don't think there are many articles about it because I don't think anyone does it to become incontinent, or at least not many people. I've never heard of anyone trying this, and my guess is you'd wind up in the hospital for serious dehydration long before you ever became incontinent. There is probably a lot of info about people abusing them to lose weight, which is a serious problem and a symptom of bulimia.

I don't know how laxatives damage your sphincter muscles, but the simple answer to your other two questions is that if you are taking laxatives and don't need to be, you will be voiding more water than you should and become seriously dehydrated. And if you're taking 10 at a time when you should only be taking one, there are really no precautions you can take to prevent that kind of severe dehydration. No matter how much water you drink it will come right back out of you.

03-05-2008	#2 (permalink)
daria7483 VIP Historical Donor Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Virginia, USA Age: 25 Posts: 619 Threads: 10	I don't think there are many articles about it because I don't think anyone does it to become incontinent, or at least not many people. I've never heard of anyone trying this, and my guess is you'd wind up in the hospital for serious dehydration long before you ever became incontinent. There is probably a lot of info about people abusing them to lose weight, which is a serious problem and a symptom of bulimia. I don't know how laxatives damage your sphincter muscles, but the simple answer to your other two questions is that if you are taking laxatives and don't need to be, you will be voiding more water than you should and become seriously dehydrated. And if you're taking 10 at a time when you should only be taking one, there are really no precautions you can take to prevent that kind of severe dehydration. No matter how much water you drink it will come right back out of you.