Eating consistently throughout the day sends messages to your body to keep things moving. That’s in part thanks to the gastrocolic reflex, a fancy term that describes how your intestines naturally ...
If you’re not regular just yet, you can actually train yourself to poop like clockwork. Getty Images Reviewed by Dietitian Emily Lachtrupp, M.S., RD Whether you call it poop, No. 2 or a bowel movement ...
Stop me when this starts to sound familiar: This New Year, you resolved to clean up your eating act. Your ...
John J. Vargo, MD, and Jeffrey L. Ponsky, MD, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio. Pneumoperitoneum has been observed in 36% of patients undergoing PEG tube placement. [38] It is ...
Major complications resulting from PEG tube placement include peritonitis, hemorrhage, aspiration, peristomal wound infection, buried bumper syndrome, and gastrocolic fistula. Decompression ...