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Rectal bulb syringe to administer smaller enemas. An enema, also known as a clyster, is the rectal administration of a fluid by injection into the lower bowel via the anus. [1]
A 1776 textbook drawing of a tobacco smoke enema device, consisting of a nozzle, a fumigator and a bellows. The tobacco smoke enema, an insufflation of tobacco smoke into the rectum by enema, was a medical treatment employed by European physicians for a range of ailments.
A variety of different mixes have been used for nutrient enemas throughout history. A paper published in Nature in 1926 stated that because the rectum and lower digestive tract lack digestive enzymes, it is likely that only the end-products of normal digestion such as sugars, amino acids, salt and alcohol, will be absorbed.
Sodium citrate saline is one of the most effective osmotic laxatives (secondary in action only to magnesium citrate). [8] Its laxative action is the result of osmotic imbalance that extracts bound water from stool and pulls it back into the large bowel.
Image credits: Frazer Harrison / Getty #5 Willow Smith. The 24-year-old bedazzled the red carpet in a shimmery bra and matching short bottoms. She paired it off with a black maxi blazer that ...
A row of female urinals in Germany separated by privacy partitions, made by GBH Bathroom Products A mobile lightweight female urinal at the Panafrican Film and Television Festival in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. A female urinal is a urinal designed for the female anatomy to allow for ease of use by women and girls.
Bathrooms are generally categorized as "master bathroom", containing a shower and a bathtub that is adjoining to the largest bedroom; a "full bathroom" (or "full bath"), containing four plumbing fixtures: a toilet and sink, and either a bathtub with a shower, or a bathtub and a separate shower stall; "half bath" (or "powder room") containing ...
While virtually all Japanese washrooms have an electric outlet behind the toilet, many foreign bathrooms lack a nearby outlet. In Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, the UK, and many other countries, high current electrical outlets installed in close proximity to water, or where persons may be wet, are prohibited by codes due to possible health ...