How to make an enema correctly at home: step by step description

In order to understand how to do the right enema at home, we list all the main attributes that are needed to carry out manipulation. You will need:

• a rubber cylinder with a tip (Esmarch's mug);
• a basin or other container with a wide bottom;
• dense polyethylene film;
• a couch (a sofa, a bed and so on).

Before you do the right enema at home to yourself or another person, you should determine which purification fluid will be most effective.

How to make an enema right at home

Currently, there are many differentSolutions, with the help of which the lower parts of the rectum are cleaned. As them they use also ordinary warm water, and broths of medicinal herbs, and vegetable oils, and salts, and diluted freshly squeezed juices and so on. Depending on the purpose of such manipulations, the most suitable liquid should be chosen.

Purify the intestines by washing it with water orsolution should be in the early morning (5-8 hours) or in the evening (at 21-23 hours). This time is ideal for such manipulations. It should be noted that the positions when introducing fluid into the rectum may be different. The person is allowed to sit on his haunches, lie on his back, on his left or right side (while pressing his knees to his stomach), and also to stand on his knees, leaning on his elbows.

Before correctly making a child's enemaor an adult, you should definitely buy a mug of Esmarch in the pharmacy. It must be filled with cleaning liquid, closed and highly suspended. After that the tip is recommended to be abundantly lubricated with petroleum jelly, vegetable oil or a nutritious cream. It is required to completely exhaust the air from the tube. Having reached the outflow of water, it is necessary to close the tap. Then the tip should be inserted gently into the anus, and then remove the clamp. During this procedure, 1.5 to 2 liters of fluid should enter the rectum.

It should be noted that these manipulations canto carry out not only with the help of the Esmarkh mug, but also using an ordinary pear. Before you properly do an enema syringe, you need to perform all the same steps that were described above. As a rule, a rubber pear is used to clean the lower intestines in young children.

After the procedure is completed, the patient must lie in the same position for 5 to 10 minutes. During this time the feces will become soft, and their output will be greatly facilitated.