Subject: Why Don't They Use Them If They Work So Well?
Author: Janet
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] Date Posted:08:27:26 06/27/09 Sat In reply to:
bill3
's message, "Re: Barium Enema" on 17:45:59 06/26/09 Fri
Your mentioned a special nozzle that provides confidence that an accident won't happen on the table. That would put an end to at least that worry, which is what caused me the most discomfort. The cramps would be a lot more tolerable without the added anxiety of that extra embarrassment.
Yet, many others who have commented on their barium enema experiences have expressed the same thing. They agreed that even worse than the sensations involved while retaining the barium was fear of not being able to hold it long enough.
With that special nozzle, at least that fear would be gone.
Date Posted:09:02:21 06/27/09 Sat
Years ago (Mid-70's)I got a summer job working in the shipping dept of EZ-EM, the main manufacturer of enema equipment for barium enemas. I can assure you that almost all enema bags were shipped with a nozzle that had the inflatable ballon (Naturally, being an enema nut, I liberated quite a few of those nozzles) The nozzles came in various colors, with green being the largest. They also came in light pink and blue. There was also a smallish white one with no balloon. The balloons were inflated by a 3x5 inch sponge like thing that when squeezed, sent air into the balloon. All of these nozzles had fluted, or tulip shaped, heads, with the main hole on the end and 4 smaller holes on the side of the head Anyone wanting more info on this , please feel free to e-mail me
Date Posted:22:57:00 06/27/09 Sat
Janet - To my knowledge ALL bariun enemas are given with a double ballon inflatable nozzle to keep the barium in. They may not have inflted the nozzle very hard in you case so that you didn't feel it but you probably had an EZ-EM nozzle in you.
Date Posted:12:19:04 07/03/09 Fri
The first barium enema I received was in the "office" of a radiologist. The office was located in a large, multi-story medical building. In those days hospital gowns were a rarity.
I was shown into the procedure room and told to remove anything metal. I took off my skirt and my panties. The container holding the barium was a large enclosed clear plastic bottle about the size of an 8 quart pressure cooker. To the top was connected a rubber squeeze bulb. From the bottom was the rubber tube with what looked to me like a massive nozzle at the end. The nurse inserted it into me painlessly and away we went. As she pumped air into the top of the bottle it increased the pressure on the surface of the barium thus forcing it through the rubber tube and into me. After she had pumped me full and the radiologist had made the X-rays, the nurse told me to go to the restroom. It wasn't 'til then that I realised that the restroom was outside, down the hallway, in the public part of the building.
I was having no trouble retaining the enema so I started to get completely dressed. The nurse told me I had better get going and not worry about getting fully clothed. Here I was, scrambling down the public hallway, in full view of the radiologist's waiting room struggling with my panties and tucking my blouse into my skirt and heading for the restroom.
When I returned I was ushered into the adjoining x-ray room which was apparently the mens' side to wait while they developed the films. While waiting I saw the equipment lying in a sink and noted that the size of the nozzle was about a third of the size of the one they used on me. I wondered how it was that women got nozzles so much larger than the men.
