Colon detox from another doctor’s perspective

04/05/2022 07:50 GMT+7

According to Dr. Quan The Dan – Former doctor of Thong Nhat Hospital, many people still believe that colon cleansing is effective for cleaning the colon, but some people think that colon detoxification will disrupt the balance. nature of the body, will do more harm than good.

Dan said that normally, food enters the stomach and is then kneaded by the stomach into a chylous form. The chyme is then squeezed by the stomach and sprayed into the small intestine. In the small intestine, the chyme mixes with bile and small intestine juice to metabolize food and the small intestine to absorb nutrients. The fluid in the small intestine is still fragrant and when it reaches the colon or called the large intestine, it will be different.

Digestive fluid reaching the colon is very liquid, containing many undigested food particles, and many soluble components in it are salts and vitamins.

The colon is responsible for reabsorption of water and mineral salts in the digestive juices. From a volume of digestive juices about 10 liters/day, digestive juices slowly pass through the colon and are drained of water, become dry, and become ingots of feces. So the role of the colon is very important, without the colon people will die from dehydration and salt.

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Dan said that feces contain indigestible substances of food, mineral salts, bile pigments, epithelial cells of the intestine are shed, toxins from the liver excreted through the bile, bacteria. … So the story of feces containing poison is true but not the main point.

The poison of feces comes from elsewhere, that is from the symbiotic bacteria in the colon. In the colon there is a very rich symbiotic bacteria, they live on nutrients left in the intestinal fluid down to the colon. They also have certain benefits for the body when they synthesize vitamin K, B vitamins, folic acid for the human body.

If we insist on cleaning these bacteria, we will be lacking in the above substances. However, these bacteria produce toxins by breaking down these residual proteins into incomplete, neurotoxic nitrogenous structures, such as volatiles: ammonia NH3, indol, scatol, mercaptan, Hydrogen sulfide… gives feces an unpleasant odor.

The toxins of this stool also enter the blood and are carried back to the liver by the blood for detoxification. When the liver is weakened, for example in cirrhosis, these toxins enter the brain, causing hepatic coma and death. So the story of feces containing poison is true.

This is known by all doctors, so when patients with cirrhosis end-stage, doctors always have to give patients intestinal antibiotics to kill bacteria in the colon, and always give patients laxatives. to avoid stagnation of feces, thereby reducing the risk of poisoning the brain.

When removing enema, there are both advantages and disadvantages. Because, enemas will remove those volatile toxins from the colon, reduce the density of intestinal bacteria, helping to temporarily detoxify the brain. But in the profession of enema will be beneficial when the patient has a medical condition, especially being constipated.

On the other hand, the person still defecates normally, a few times a week or a month with enemas, there is no anti-toxic effect, because the other poison is still produced by the body every day. Therefore, Dr. Dan emphasized that the enema should not be removed, but let the colon do its detoxification task. You can only help the colon by drinking enough water to make the stools soft and easy to move, and by doing gentle exercise for the colon to contract.

In addition, daily enemas will lose vitamins K, B … useful, in the long run the body will produce a lack of substances. In elderly and frail patients, lying for a long time due to a stroke, they often have chronic constipation, which may require frequent enemas for a long time, they need to take vitamin supplements.

Khanh Chi