I've had a challenging time over the past several months dealing with mum's constipation, then some horrible bouts of diarrhoea, and then constipation again. The meds we tried seemed to take ages to work when she was constipated, and when they did, we had gone too far, and diarrhoea kicked in. Not ideal! I decided to try mum on something more natural and I picked up on a comment that @Amy in the US made about her mother being given prune juice in the mornings at her care home (warmed, I think, but I may have got that wrong). Well, I can confirm it has worked a treat! I started with a large glass a day, nothing happened for a while, but after a week or so mum is pretty regular now, and I'm sure she must feel better for it (not that she can really tell me any more). I now give her just half a small glass in the mornings (don't want to overdo it!). Hopefully this will work as a 'maintenance dose' and we won't have to revert back to using medication for this, for a while at least.
Worth trying, if anyone else has had the same problems.
Worth trying, if anyone else has had the same problems.
