Help Re: Constipation - Need Recipe!

[miko014]

Hello ya'll! I'm at work right now and could use some help. I have a pt who has not had a "good" BM in about a week. I remember reading on here someone's recipe for something to help with that. If I recall it has prune juice and sprite and soemthing else in it. Does anybody know what it is? 'Cause I think it would be really helpful to my pt. thanks!

[GingerSue]

Why the sprite?

[Wise Woman RN]

1 cup all bran

1 cup applesauce

1/2 cup prune juice

Cinnamon and/or nutmeg to taste... Mix it up, put it in the refrigerator. I makes a kind of pudding. We used to give a med cup of it for each patient daily.

Hope this helps.

[Mulan]

half prune juice and half 7-up warmed, is an old recipe good for gas and bm, guess sprite would probably be the same difference

[KJRN79]

We used to warm up 4 oz prune juice, put in 1/2-1 teas lemon juice and sugar to sweeten to taste. If my memory serves me right it worked EVERY time! (Postpartum moms, anyway!)

[TravelingirlRN]

We used to use warm prune juice and MOM mixed. Tastes bad but works well.

[annmariern]

30 of mom, 40z any carbonated drink, 4 0z prune juice. or 1 dulcolax supp.

seems to work most of the time

[Balder_LPN, LPN]

miko014 said:

Hello ya'll! I'm at work right now and could use some help. I have a pt who has not had a "good" BM in about a week. I remember reading on here someone's recipe for something to help with that. If I recall it has prune juice and sprite and something else in it. Does anybody know what it is? 'Cause I think it would be really helpful to my pt. thanks!

[TracyB,RN, RN]

I've seen warm prune juice do the trick many times...not too appetizing, but most stuff isn't...

[Ginger35]

This recipe we call "the bomb"

warm prune juice

1 tablespoon melted butter

MOM

-Usually see results by the next day

[Ginger35]

PS - we put the butter in the prune juice to melt followed by the MOM

[ben123]

I eat cream of wheat almost every morning and the next day when I go it is like giving birth. Since you said he has not gone in 1 week I reccomend the 4 oz of prune juice warmed ( I don't know why warm but it works real good) If not u might have to get an order for an enema or disimpation.