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Subject: Routine enemas for children


Author:
Joe
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Date Posted: Wednesday, July 11, 2012, 02:02: am
 When I was a child back in the 1950's it was fairly common for children to receive routine enemas for general health reasons. Many parents felt that this helped reduce the frequency and severity of various illnesses, which was desirable because most people didn't have health insurance and visits to the doctor were expensive. I suspect this is not very common today because parents either don't think routine enemas are helpful or because they prefer to just take their children to the doctor when they get sick and let the insurance company pay for it.
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Eric
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Date Posted: Wednesday, July 11, 2012, 05:31: pm
I grew up in the same era. But visits to the doctor weren't expensive at all. That didn't happen until the government and insurance companies took over years later. When we went to the doctor, we paid just a few dollars at the time the services were rendered. Insurance wasn't involved. Law suits weren't an issue.

Now, enemas are not common today with either kids or adults. Hardly anyone takes them anymore except for us klismos. One reason is that more mothers work and don't have time to give their kids enemas, and another is that doctors have sold out to the pharmaceutical companies, and no longer prescribe enemas.

I'm a master plumber who owns his own company. In the 60s and 70s I saw many enema bags and bulbs in the homes I serviced. Today, maybe five per-scent have them, or least where I can see them when I service their bathrooms.

Just my thoughts.

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[> Subject: Re: Routine enemas for children


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tom
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Date Posted: Friday, July 13, 2012, 09:49: am
a good reason enemas are not giving to children today is the psycological effect it can give them

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[> Subject: Re: Routine enemas for children


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Filipino orderly
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Date Posted: Friday, July 13, 2012, 10:46: am
Regarding psychological problems for children being given enemas I don't agree. Maybe it is a cultural thing, but enemas in the Philippines is a fairly common practice. I give many enemas with my duty as an orderly and most of my patients are well aware of the procedure having in most cases a lot of experience with cleansing enemas.

My wife and I both come from medical families including being enema families and we continue with our children and it is accepted as a good thing for health. Our backgrounds however are very different. My Mother was a mid wife who gave thousand of cleansing enemas and my Father an Xray tech who gave lots of Barium Enemas. I got a BS in Nursing but was not able to pass our very difficult Nursing Board (only about 15 to 40% of nurse grads pass here and my relatives and friends who are RN's who have immigrate to the US say that the nursing board exams are much easier in the US). I was very lucky as I was able to get a job in one of Manila's best hospitals as a male orderly. My wife's Father is a gastro MD and so she also comes from an enema oriented medical family. My wife is an MD with a Family Medical practice and she also does some shifts in the emergency room of the small hospital in a poor area where her practice is limited. Her patients sometimes have less experience with enemas than mine, but I think that is more because of living conditions. Some of my wife's patients live with either no CR or very very basic CR with many people sharing the same toilet so enemas are more difficult for this families so suppositories are more common sometimes. (we call a rest room a CR for comfort room).

Anyway we believe regular bowel movements are very important as did each ofmour parents even though our families come from different social and economic circumstances. Therefore, despite the differences in our backgrounds continue to use enemas for ourselves and our children for xo stipation as well as periodically for a whole system clean out detoxification. Both of us accepted the routine growing up, and our children do not have a problem with getting enemas when they are constipated or sick or for general wellness detox.

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[> Subject: Re: Routine enemas for children


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Filipino orderly
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Date Posted: Friday, July 13, 2012, 10:52: am
Sorry for some typos above, but I was not able to correct due to problems trying to get the cursor to work. I meant where my wife's clinic is located and constipation for our children, but I hope you got the idea of what I was trying to say.

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[> Subject: Re: Routine enemas for children


Author:
Cosworth (wistful)
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Date Posted: Monday, July 16, 2012, 06:19: pm
Being raised on the Canadian Prairies in the late 40's early 50's I was the recipient of regular enema sessions. Every Saturday morning, I got a set if three (our 'normal' enema session). This was not precluded if I had already received other enemas during the week for the various other purposes that Mum deduced. My enema session started as a consequence of a bad habit I had to overcome, but they continued until I was in my mid teens, by which time I was carrying on on my own. They were considered healthy, and Mum had no objection to me 'doing myself'.

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[> Subject: Re: Routine enemas for children


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Patty
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Date Posted: Wednesday, July 18, 2012, 12:35: pm
If we were a more open minded society today we wouldn't need to come to these boards to seek solace for believing in enemas, either for health, pleasure or both!!! I'm grateful to visit here to find kindred spirits. I took enemas from my parents (both) as a child, I take them now, give them to my women friends if asked, and have given my three children enemas until the oldest at 16, does it for himself. My two girls are younger and they like the way mother gives them enemas when needed.

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Eddy
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Date Posted: Wednesday, July 18, 2012, 01:11: pm
You are absolutely right Patty!Mother gave me enemas right from the word go I think. I remember hiding behind a closet door because my butt hurt whenever I had to go. I knew my BM's would hurt. I became a "witholder!" Out would come the enema bag about once a week or more frequently. Down would come my pants and in would go the bag of water. My mother caught me playing with the enema bag. I was trying to insert the nozzle in my butt. She told me, " If you want an enema, I will give you one!"

Enemas were a regular thing back 70 years ago when I was a small kid.

Eddy

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[> Subject: Re: Routine enemas for children


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Barry
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Date Posted: Tuesday, July 24, 2012, 02:41: pm
Growing up in the 1970s, my mom use to give my brother and me a monthly soapsuds enema. The first of every month meant an enema for me. I had to take the entire bag. She figured that a monthly enema was good for me and she never worried if I was constipated the rest of the month, because I'd get another enema on the next first.

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[> Subject: Re: Routine enemas for children


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Douglas
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Date Posted: Sunday, July 29, 2012, 10:56: am
As a child in the 1950s I thought I was on the receiving end of the enema hose all the time, but actually it wasn't all that often, once a month, unless I was sick.

Mom took enemas when she had her period and I guess she thought that while the enema bag was out and in use she would avail herself of it and give me a good cleaning out as well.

When I came home from school and saw the enema bag in the bathroom I knew I'd be in for a session over mom's lap. Sure enough I'd be told at bath time that I hadn't had a cleaning out in a while and could use a good enema.

I had the enema bag hanging over my head during my baths. It was either a promise of things to come or a reminder of the last session. Either way it was imtimidating yet exciting.

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bill3
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Date Posted: Thursday, August 02, 2012, 12:09: am
I probably didn't have a lot of enemas as a kid- except as very young, maybe 4-6, when I recall fequently laying on the bed and having a bulb and then the bag give me enemas. I don't know why as I wasn't sick. Later the enemas were not frequent, usually when sick.

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Howard
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Date Posted: Tuesday, July 31, 2012, 01:43: pm
Both my wife and I grew-up in the early 60s when enemas were very common and most bathrooms had a red enema bag hanging behind a shower curtain or behind the door. growing-up, we knew that our parents took enemas and we received enemas fairly regularly. While I received them for constipation or sickness, my wife's mother gave her an enema series every Saturday morning which both her parents did also. Our three children, a son and two daughters, grew-up being given enemas and continue to take enemas so as adults. Recently, our eleven year olg grand-daughter visited with us and actully asked my wife to give her a neeced enema.

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[> Subject: Re: Routine enemas for children


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Dawn
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Date Posted: Friday, August 03, 2012, 03:29: pm
My brothers and I got enemas every Saturday evening. They were pretty big ones. We had a red open top enema bag that held at least two and a half quarts and we had to take as much of it as we could. Mom stayed in the room when you pooped it out and and looked in the toilet before you flushed and if she didn't like the results, she'd refill the bag and you'd get another enema.

We also got impromptu enemas whenever Mom thought we needed a BM, which was about once a week on average. She had an assortment of bulb syringes and you'd get two or three bulbs full. So long as she heard a good healthy "plop" or two when you pooped, she wouldn't bother checking the toilet. If you didn't poop well, the enema bag would come out.

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Author:
DJ
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Date Posted: Saturday, August 11, 2012, 12:21: am
My mom gave me enemas from before I can remember. I was four when I began remembering them. I had too many things to do and put off going to the toilet, which resulted in the cause for most all of my enemas.
After about 10, I began to start liking them, and the attention my mom gave to me. She was very loving, and had
the love of giving me enemas. I got hundreds of them growing up. When I got a cold, and stayed in bed, I got enemas every day when I was sick.
My mother I believe had a fetish in giving me enemas, and when I started to complain of a tummy ache,, even though it wasn't always true, it was into the bathroom, where she
took off all my clothes, sat me down on the toilet seat lid, while she made up the enema, and then over her lap for one or two good enemas.
My mom showed the neighbor how to give her daughter enemas, and I was the example showing the neighbor lady how to do it properly.The neighbor lady baby sat with me at both my house and her house. She gave me and her daughter many enemas during those baby sitting sessions, to which my mom agreed. I enjoyed getting them from her and watch her give her daughter enemas. Those were great times,

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[> Subject: Re: Routine enemas for children


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Matt
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Date Posted: Saturday, August 18, 2012, 10:02: am
Growing up in the 60's my mom gave me an enema about every other month. Wouldn't call this routine, but just an enema for whatever reason. I hated getting an enema and would put up a fight, but her being bigger and stronger than I was my attempts at resister were futile, plus she had me when she was 19 so when I was 8 she was only 27. Actually started getting them when I was about 6 or 7 and she stopped giving them to me when I was 10. Why at 10 is anyones guess. I think the most difficult time she had was getting me ready for the enema, my attempts not to get one caused her much grief, lol...

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[> Subject: Re: Routine enemas for children


Author:
Don
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Date Posted: Thursday, September 06, 2012, 01:43: pm
From 5 until I was 10 I got routine enemas every Saturday morning, usually 2 soapsuds with Ivory soap, fairly milky and quite warm, reatined for at least 3 minutes, then plain water rinse enemas until the returns were clear. After the 4th enema in the series, my main question to myself as I expelled was, "Am I going to get another one?" Since I loved enemas, I wanted that fifth one.

The only times I didn't get my Staurday enemas was if we were traveling and wherever we were made it inconvenient to do the enemas. But Mom made up for it by giving me my enemas the night before our trip and when we got home. Not that she was singling me out. She took routine enemas and gave them to Dad too.

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