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[moha]

hello
what do you mean with using digital stimulation for boweling-?????/i know just chemical stimulation but i have bowel accedent!!!
can you give me some information about this??/
i am 14 years and i have compliet spinal cord injury-d8 since 18-3-2005
in september i will back to school ,but i worried of bowel accident !!!!!!!
pleas can you help me????

moha
israel

[Joed]

Hi moha and welcome!

AHolland wrote this some time ago about digital stimulation:

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"Most spinal cord people have a difficult time getting a firm control over the actions of their bowels. Some people use a 1-2 or 3 day routine, meaning we only clean our bowels out every couple of days. It would be quite typical for a quad to use a 3 day routine and a para to use a 2 day routine. A normal person would typically use a 1 day routine.

The act of cleaning ones self out can take many forms. Some people do it while sitting on the toilet. Some while sitting on a commode chair, over the toilet. Some people have it done while being in bed. It is not unusual to combine a toilet routine and a shower at the same time, and I have seen a number of showers that have a toilet built into them.

In any event, a spinal cord person cannot usually work the muscles it takes to make the fecal matter move. Instead the person usually manually stimulates the anal area into reacting. The usual proceedure it put on a rubber glove, coat a finger or two, and insert it up into the anal area. This method, called digital stimulation, triggers the bowel muscles to react to push the fecal matter down.

Now what I have said is an over simplification. Once the finger is in the rectum, the person useally massages the walls of the lower bowel, particularily the part around the back, near the spine. If a finger gets too high in the bowels, then there is a chance of hitting some spot, I forget the name, and it can cause the person to faint."

You can read the entire thread here:

http://www.apparelyz...p?showtopic=515