Saturday, March 27, 2010

The Problem When Taking Laxatives as A Form of Constipation Relief

The problem with taking laxatives as a form of constipation relief is that the body quickly becomes dependent on the help of those laxatives to cleanse colon waste out of the digestive tract. As soon as you stop taking the laxative, the constipation will come back, often worse. The reason for this is that the way a laxative becomes a colon cleanse is to pull as much of the water out of your body as it can and use that water to flush the waste out. But now your body is depleted of water that it needs to naturally move waste through the system, making it quicker for constipation to crop up again.