Help! Constipation Schultz Cocktail Recipe :-)

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Ok All,

I am urgently needing the concoction recipe and education for a patient regarding a Schultz Cocktail...

Four of us at work can't remember it..and have different versions of the mix...

Would greatly appreciate your help...Got to love mental health nursing ?

Thanks in Advance. V.

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Specializes in med surg.

I have never heard of this.

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Specializes in EMS, ER, GI, PCU/Telemetry.

is it this one?

½ cup unsweetened applesauce

4 tablespoons wheat bran

6 ounces prune juice

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

Oh.........Power Pudding!!:rckn:

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Specializes in psych, ambulatory care, ER.

You guys crack me up, power pudding. My sister has something she uses at the nursing home where she works, and they call it something like a "hot slider". If the patient is on lactulose, you mix the lactulose with prune juice and melted butter. When that gets sucked down, beware of the blow-out.

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Specializes in ICU, Telemetry.

Not sure we've named it, but we do 1/2 hot coffee 1/2 microwaved prune juice with a lactulose chaser. Just go ahead and sit them on the BSC when they finish swallowing....Thar she blows!

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Specializes in ED, ICU, PACU.
nerdtonurse? said:
Not sure we've named it, but we do 1/2 hot coffee 1/2 microwaved prune juice with a lactulose chaser. Just go ahead and sit them on the BSC when they finish swallowing....Thar she blows!

It's nicknamed--------COLON BLOW :wink2:

Remember the old SNL skit? http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/colon-blow/229046/

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Specializes in Psych, LTC, Acute Care.

I work at a nursing home and we mix up "The Boiler Makers". Its almost 8 oz of warm prune juice and 30cc of MOM. They drink that and within hours they are blowing the bathroom up. I have patients all the time asking for "Boiler Makers."

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

OK, I've never heard of the "hot slider", but that's what I love about allnurses.........I learn something new every day!! And wouldn't you know, I happen to have a resident on my unit who hadn't had a good poop in ten days and wasn't satisfied with the results of the enema she got last night..........so after obtaining the necessary ingredients and nuking it for 45 seconds, I offered her the cocktail in the hope that she wouldn't insist on another enema.

It wasn't 30 minutes before the brew lived up to its name. The resident had three ginormous BMs within the next two hours, and was thinking about making a fourth deposit in the BSC when I left for the night. My reward was a bear hug from a VERY grateful elderly woman, who also told me that was the best thing anyone had done for her in the entire time she'd been there.:)

So, from Mrs. McK. to me to you, I say THANK YOU!! That stuff works like a charm!

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Specializes in LTC,Hospice/palliative care,acute care.
VivaLasViejas said:
..... The resident had three ginormous BMs within the next two hours, and was thinking about making a fourth deposit in the BSC when I left for the night. My reward was a bear hug from a VERY grateful elderly woman, who also told me that was the best thing anyone had done for her in the entire time she'd been there.:)

That's just one of the percs of the job-actually making a difference and getting a hug to boot...Good for you...I call my specials 'The senior citizen's shooter" or the "warm brown cow" ----Warm PJ and MOM.....never fails

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We also use MOM in prune juice.

We call it "the bomb". LOL!

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Specializes in ICU, trauma, gerontology, wounds.

*LOL* This thread is killing me! A little treat for those of you who liked "Colon Blow" as much as did: http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/gas-right/1056586/

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