Does is stimulate your intestines or muscles or does it just help break up the food inside you?
2007-12-21 06:50:49 · 35 answers · asked by Lara Croft 1 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
my guess is that it works like fiber, making it easier to digest food, making you go to the bathroom.
it helps you if you are constipated.
2007-12-21 06:53:47 · answer #1 · answered by Harvard Hopeful 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
How Do Laxatives Work
2016-09-30 03:15:13 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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What exactly does a laxative do?
Does is stimulate your intestines or muscles or does it just help break up the food inside you?
2015-08-07 18:45:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-03-19 09:36:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What Do Laxatives Do
2016-12-16 10:02:38 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By swelling up within your intestines, bulk-forming laxatives soften and increase the volume of your stools. This then encourages your bowels to move and push the stools out. The full effect of this type of laxative can take a few days to occur.
Stimulant laxatives work by speeding up the movements of the intestines. They take 8-12 hours to work. Osmotic laxatives work by reducing the amount of water absorbed from the bowel and so increasing the amount of water in your stools. This makes them softer and easier to pass.
2007-12-21 06:54:07 · answer #6 · answered by darkangel 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It depends upon the laxative. Some a chemical some are ground up trees for bulk. Your best bet is to take a few thousand miligrams of vit c. It will clean you out.
2007-12-21 06:58:10 · answer #7 · answered by bocasbeachbum 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it does break up the food for you but it also tells your intestines to stop working and let it all out!
Instead of laxative try to improve the digestive tracks.
Googled digestive enzyme, it will give you a lot of information and help keep you in good healthy condition.
2007-12-21 06:55:42 · answer #8 · answered by rjkdlsjllsdj 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Laxatives stimulate your muscles to induce a BM. I believe they use some kind of steroid. Stool softeners just soften the BM inside of you to make it easier to pass.
2007-12-21 06:54:02 · answer #9 · answered by dxavier10 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are two types:
One irritates the bowel, increasing peristaltic action.
One simply furnishes bulk for peristaltic action to
work upon.
Neither 'helps break up food`.
2007-12-21 06:54:47 · answer #10 · answered by Irv S 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are several mechanisms of action, depending on which laxative you use. Here is more information about it:
http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/common/standard/transform.jsp?requestURI=/healthatoz/Atoz/ency/laxatives.jsp
2007-12-21 06:56:14 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋