Bowel movements (you have been warned!)

Were you also told in all probability you will "wet the bed" but not to worry, most people do? That took me by surprise.

Chrishappy - "empty your bowel ....before surgery" -
When I had my hip replacement, early morning the nurse gave me a pre-op injection, then told me to get on the stretcher to go to the op. theatre. But I suddenly felt the need to "go". He looked dubious, asked "avez vous peté?" ie have you farted? Which I had, so he let me go. Just as well!
Your other advice is very good too.

I hope you are making a good recovery Chrishappy and don't scare me too much.
Are you getting around ok in the house?.

I have all the same bowel problems !! And have just had a knee replacement last week. Apart from a stick of dynamite try and empty your bowel as much as you can a day or so before surgery, then it won't be as uncomfortable post surgery, drink LOADS of water after op and eat plenty of roughage

Thanks jollyg just a knee replacement but painful I'm told. My neighbour said it was a ward sister who told her about kiwi fruit, not sure about the "hairy bit" though!!!

Yes Kiwi fruit are fibre filled. My ma had a problem and eaten skin and all.

Dynamite,

She then went on to Fybogel, seemed to work.

Hope the op goes fine

I am waiting for an op which will require industrial quantities of pain relief.
I was warned about the constipation arising at the pre-op and told to take in with me anything that I normally find helps. A neighbour has suggested that I get visitors to bring kiwi fruit in for me, 3/4 a day.
Has anyone else heard of or used them, it is new to me.

As crafting said but add vigorous nose blowing to the equation. Do hope there is no CCTV in your loo.

ha ha what a giggle on here. Hope you've had movement in the nether regions phoenix. I had to go and look up the squatty potty ... it's is a memorable video on YouTube :0) www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbYWhdLO43Q

Most interested in this thread ;-)

I find sometimes that I think that's it, complete manoevres, wash etc, then half an hour or so later realise that wasn't it and I need to return to the loo! Was never like this when I was younger but I think it can be an age thing (I know it is with me, anyway) and a GP a few years ago mentioned that I had a slight rectocele - this completely freaked me out and I started imagining horrors to come: my bowels protruding through my rectum and having to push them back :-o

I try to keep well hydrated and eat lots of raw fruit AND veg. I do find sometimes that coffee does act as a stimulant to the gastro-colonic reflex, sometimes quite dramatically. Never heard the raisins thing but love the idea of a mix of the above ingredients, Crafting but without the War N Peas!

Oh yes, crafting, rectocele, that's my problem. Phoenix, I would do what others suggest and see a doctor. For me, Conference pears, best before they ripen. Getting older is a bugger, I think women get the worst of it!

No shit!

Hoping this causes no offence.

But there's nothing wrong with bread made using Chorleywood. No added nasties. Just vit c.

I like shop bread.

www.dovesfarm.co.uk/about/the-history-of-bread/the-history-of-bread-the-chorleywood-bread-process/

Yes, it was jingl

I still prefer Canadian strong flour for bread.

I thought Chorleywood was just a way to make a large amount of bread more quickly. I know they add vit c to 'improve' the flour.

It's the amount of protein in the wheat that makes bread bendy. The Canadian wheat was used before but now they have cracked it in the UK, so we can use homegrown wheat.

The hardness of wheat isn't necessarily the crucial element in breadmaking although it's important. There's a test called a Hagberg Falling Number which tests the density of dough made from various grains of wheat when it is stored after harvest. This determines whether the wheat goes for breadmaking, cake flour or animal feed. It detects whether the wheatgerm has started to sprout within the kernel which would effect its breadmaking quality.

Sorry, wasn't aware that the Bristol Scale had been posted before, but then, I can't be expected to have an encyclopaedic (sp?) memory of everthing that may have been posted previously. Although, thinking about it, if I did some sort of in depth studying, do you think it might ever become a specialist subject on Mastermind?

John Humphries: On which thread did jings first use the word f*$k?
Contender: Pass.
John Humphries: Who was it that suggested using a pizza cutter when a GN member had bowel movement problems?
Contender: Jings
John Humphries: Correct.
John Humphries: Who on GN usually posts on political subjects?
Contender: I'll plead the fifth.
John Humphries: Very wise! Now, who on GN has almost fallen into a wheelie bin, had to leave her knickers in the lavatory on a train, and had other underwear malfunction problems?

I think it is steamed as part of the process.

I do remember something about Canadian wheat being best for bread because it is a 'hard' wheat, but that we started using more home-grown wheat; presumably that is when the Chorleywood process was invented.

Oh, thank you merlotgran I had never heard of it

Off to google

In a nutshell:

The Chorleywood loaf has twice the amount of yeast of a traditional loaf, it has enzymes and oxidants added and while certain chemical additives such as potassium bromate have been banned, bread campaigners believe it is behind the growth in the number of people who struggle to digest bread.

There is a lot more info on the internet if you google Chorleywood Process.

Good old Chorleywood has a lot to answer for.
am I missing something (apart from a few marbles)