Hydrocolonotherapy is a hardware procedure for washing the colon. She promises to remove feces, detoxify the body, remove excess fluid, restore microflora, and reduce weight.
Description of procedure
The session is held in the treatment room, intended only for hydrocolonotherapy. The patient is placed on the left side or back. Using a special apparatus, the intestines are washed with water or filtered herbal infusions. The equipment is equipped with a disposable hose system. Through one of them, water enters the intestine, the second serves to divert the used fluid.
The nurse constantly monitors the process and at the slightest discomfort weakens the pressure of the liquid or completely shuts it off. Cleansing stepwise and adjustable. Using the pressure of the supplied water, the stagnant masses dissolve and exfoliate from the intestinal walls.
Experts believe that in one session it is impossible to obtain a satisfactory result and recommend a course of procedures for patients, the number of visits varies from 5 to 10 times, depending on the state of health and slagging of the body. The final procedure involves colonizing the intestines with healthy microflora, but for some time the patient needs to adhere to a certain diet.
Cleansing the large intestine provokes further self-cleaning of the small intestine, kidneys, liver, gall bladder. If all the recommendations of the doctor are followed, the patient improves the microflora of the gastrointestinal tract, as a result of which immunity is strengthened, many diseases go away, the skin condition improves, etc.
You can go through the procedure in any large city in Russia, today the devices are purchased by all health institutions, since the demand for it does not decrease. Hydrocolonotherapy is available in Moscow, reviews about clinics and centers are very different from enthusiastic to sharply negative. Where to get cleansed and whether it is worth doing it at all is a purely individual question, but it makes sense to turn to the experience of those who have already realized their desire and left a review.
Indications
The procedure of hydrocolonotherapy is recommended for many diseases, for example:
- Dysbacteriosis, intestinal dysfunction (constipation, diarrhea, indigestion, etc.).
- Helmitosis, intoxication, bulimia
- Gemmoroy in remission.
- Obesity, weak immunity.
- Allergies, flatulence, prostatitis.
- Chronic fatigue, dermatitis.
- In the complex of measures in preparation for surgical interventions.
Contraindications to the procedure
Hydrocolonotherapy is far from a harmless process, and the list of contraindications is quite large. It includes such diseases and conditions:
- Intestinal perforation (or suspicion of it), pregnancy.
- Hernia, intestinal bleeding, hemorrhoids in the acute stage.
- Neoplasms of the rectum, large intestine, abdominal cavity.
- Recently performed surgical intervention.
- Renal, liver failure, anemia.
- Hypertension, cardiovascular disease.
- Colitis (including ulcerative non-specific), abdominal pain.
- Increased body temperature (more than 37 ° C).
- Acute enteritis, Crohn's disease, heart attack, stroke.
- Old age (over 70 years), adolescence and childhood (less than 16 years).
- Calculous pyelonephritis, adhesions in the abdominal cavity.
- Menstruation, ovarian cyst, prostate adenoma, etc.
Course results
Completing the recommended course of sessions brings:
- Decrease in total body weight (sometimes losses are up to 7-10 kg).
- Improving body contours - the abdomen becomes taut, folds on the sides go.
- The skin condition improves - rashes pass, turgor and moisture increase.
- The water balance in the body is normalized - swelling disappears, immunity is strengthened.
- The work of the digestive tract, kidneys, pancreas, liver is normalized.
Since hydrocolonotherapy is a direct non-surgical intervention, there are also threats of worsening, namely:
- Deterioration of well-being. It is associated with a large amount of incoming water, which is felt as weakness, disorientation. The condition resembles alcohol poisoning.
- Dysbacteriosis With the repeated introduction of water into the large intestine, all microflora is extracted from it. If the course was completed only by a single procedure for the introduction of eubiotics, then this will not be enough to restore the system.
- Hypovitaminosis is a consequence of depleted microflora, which produces the necessary complex of vitamins (K, group B).
- The risk of perforation of the intestinal wall is extremely rare, but the probability is present.
Positive patient reviews
Many liked hydrocolonotherapy. Reviews were left mostly by women. They talked about how the process itself lasts about 40 minutes. The majority regarded the uncomfortable sensations during the session as a necessary evil. But the procedure was not remembered by this, but by the positive consequences that it brought.
Many wrote that the figure changed significantly - the stomach became flat and remained so even after a hearty dinner. It is noted that a feeling of lightness immediately sets in, many were amazed at the amount of slag removed and regretted that they had not decided on the procedure earlier.
Hydrocolonotherapy received reviews with enthusiastic reviews for a significant decrease in body weight, but this effect was not achieved in all cases. Most patients, after completing the course, switched to dietary nutrition, as experts recommended. It is indicated that a favorable environment for maintaining the desired body weight was created precisely in the process of washing the intestines and secured by a new nutrition system.
Hydrocolonotherapy received reviews from thinner patients for the long-awaited and impressive, in some cases, effect. Those who noted only a loss of 2-3 kilograms, were also satisfied that the volume in the waist area decreased, the stomach became soft, and the chair became better. Most note a pleasant feeling of lightness.
Negative patient reviews
Hydrocolonotherapy also received a large number of reviews with negative reviews. It is written in them that the complications from the procedure appear in a few months and are expressed in a worsened state of health, many are dysbacteriosis, flatulence and halitosis. It is noted that after two to three months, a depressed state, drowsiness may occur, constipation returns. Some women noted that there was intolerance to certain types of food.
It is also noted that the chair has become irregular, and going to the toilet is sometimes painful. Women believe that hydrocolonotherapy is to blame for these symptoms. The reviews warn and recommend consulting a doctor with all those who have a burning desire to undergo the procedure. It is advised to find a specialist not in the clinic where the device is installed, but to get advice from a gastroenterologist and be sure to pass a full range of tests.
The procedure of washing the intestines (hydrocolonotherapy) also received negative reviews for the obvious commercial component. Many felt that medical centers that have the necessary equipment do not think about the harm done to health, but only care about profit.
As voluntary victims now consider, procedures should only be performed on the recommendation of a doctor. Moreover, many passed sessions in centers where no one warned of possible consequences, focusing the visitor on her desired effects - rejuvenation, health, weight loss, etc.
Neutral reviews
Hydrocolonotherapy received neutral tone reviews from patients who did not feel any effect. The only, in their opinion, pleasant in the procedure was a feeling of empty stomach, which many liked. It is also noted that the procedure, in its entirety, costs considerable resources.
This category of patients believes that such therapy should be carried out in case of full confidence in a positive result, backed by medical guarantees. In other cases, it is more an experiment than a healing or therapeutic measure.
What do doctors think
Most practitioners believe that the procedure is harmful, sometimes irreparable. Hydrocolonotherapy received reviews of doctors with negative reviews for obvious deception and the presentation of bowel cleansing, as a new word in medicine.
Aesculapius believes that an ordinary enema is hydrocolonotherapy. Reviews of doctors are full of calculations and citations from special literature, where all advertising arguments in favor of such a purification are refuted. Almost unanimously it was established that the injection of water into the large intestine is an unnatural action that plunges the body into shock. For this reason, according to doctors, many ladies feel euphoria - the allocated adrenaline inspires almost everyone.
Very ironic and skeptical about this therapy are expressed pathologists who have direct access to "slag". They have repeatedly stated that there are no toxins in the body, and cannot be for physiological reasons, therefore they urge not to succumb to pseudo-medical advertising and not to check for themselves what hydrocolonotherapy is. The reviews of practicing doctors warn of a clear threat to health from carrying out such an execution.
Medical reasons
Experts condemn hydrocolonotherapy. The doctors' comments provide arguments about the dangers of the procedure. For example, assurances that parasites are destroyed in this way are designed for those who do not know the nature of the disease. It is impossible to get rid of worms by simple, even multiple, washing of the colon. Some of the parasites are so firmly attached to the walls of the intestines that it is sometimes difficult to tear them off even with your hands.
No less indignant is the question itself: what brings hydrocolonotherapy - benefit or harm? Reviews of doctors in this regard are unambiguous - the procedure is traumatic. Even an experienced specialist risks harming the patient by introducing a foreign, albeit flexible, tool into the colon. At the very least, the person who has been cleansed will have irritation, but the consequences can be more global.
Aesculapians also emphasize the fact that many centers offer "enhanced purification", introducing additional elements with water - infusions and decoctions of herbs, salt, oil and other impurities. It is impossible to guarantee that the patient has no allergies, this requires a series of tests, and not just the assurance of the visitor that he is absolutely healthy. But no one deals with these issues, insisting that the panacea for many diseases is bowel leaching (hydrocolonotherapy).
Reviews of doctors suggest that, perhaps, this method will help patients with alcohol and drug intoxication a little. But it will not bring them any relief, since the mechanism of elimination of toxins has a completely different nature. As for the so-called toxins and decay products in the intestines of each person and their accumulation, this assumption cannot be criticized.
In the process of digesting food, pathogenic microflora will inevitably form, its decomposition products enter the bloodstream and immediately settle in the liver, where they are completely neutralized. This natural process does not work only in chronic alcoholics or in patients with cirrhosis. Neutralization of harmful substances does not occur in any other way, and does not affect intestinal hydrocolonotherapy in any way.
Doctors' reviews also criticize promises of restoring the absorption of nutrients and vitamins from the large intestine, which is being washed. Doctors know for sure that only water is absorbed from the colon, the rest (vitamins, minerals, substances) enter the blood only from the small intestine.
In advertising zeal, the centers say that special and latest devices are able to completely cleanse not only the rectum, but also the small intestine, and all these miracles are performed by one procedure - hydrocolonotherapy. Reviews of doctors urge ordinary citizens to get basic knowledge about the structure of their own bodies. In this case, it will become known that water cannot penetrate the small intestine, it is separated by an ileocecal valve, which prevents direct interaction and the ingress of liquids of any kind.
If you want, do it at home
Many do not have the arguments of the centers suggesting technical flushing of the intestine, and they believe that hydrocolonotherapy is available at home. Reviews of this kind are recommended to get a Esmarch mug, in extreme cases, a large heating pad and, using the instructions, carry out the procedure. According to most reviewers using this method, the achieved effect is not inferior to hardware flushing.
Doctors also do not stand aside and convincingly prove that an enema is home hydrocolonotherapy. Feedback from fans of cleaning procedures says that you should not get carried away with the frequency of execution. Such an intervention is an ambulance, not a cure. After an enema, you must go to the hospital to find out the reasons for your condition or to make a diagnosis.