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] Date Posted:09:59:25 07/03/09 Fri
When I was 9, our family doctor came over becuase I had a stomach ache and flu. He pressed on my stomach, told Mom I needed an enema and asked if she had the equipment. She had never given me one and asked the doctor to help her. I didn't know what to expect. I got the enema from bed with the doctor there and housekeeper holding the bag up. If I weren't so clueless I'd have had time to be embarrassed. When the bag was empty, the nozzle and tubing remained for a time as everybody told me to hold it as long as I could. This happened twice and made mom an enema convert. She got a lot of practice after the doctor instructed and she didn't need his advice to decide I needed them. Now, in my 60's, very healthy and taking my enemas as I need them.
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Date Posted:11:03:01 07/03/09 Fri
My doctor informed my mother by telephone to prepare an enema for me. I grew up when you did and enemas were a prescription for most of what ailed us. They seem to go in and out of favor.
Date Posted:11:06:55 07/03/09 Fri
Times are changing back as I have been sent by the doctor who employs me at least once a month to help a mother administer an enema to her child, as well as to help the elderly who are unable to prepare an enema for themselves. Mostly the doctor stays available for what is more complex in treatment.
Date Posted:21:17:23 07/05/09 Sun
My pediatrician loves to prescribe enemas over the phone and I can so relate to his calls. I have gotten to the point of not calling him, giving my son an enema, if he is still unwell after a couple of hours, then I call with the news he's had his enema, now what? With my doctors, enemas are in again.
Date Posted:08:09:22 07/06/09 Mon
My childhood doctor back in the '40s-'50s believed in "real" enemas whenever needed, as was conventional then, but didn't give them himself. His wife/nurse/receptionist was available to advise those moms who didn't know how to give enemas, and was experienced with her own kids.
After a while, moms learned when to give an enema, knowing the doctor would approve, without being asked.
The giving of enemas, then and now, seemed to be mostly 'women's work," and MDs were overwhelmingly male unlike today.
Date Posted:09:15:02 07/06/09 Mon
Ed,if you take enemas now, who gives them to you? If you have children, is this still "woman's work" to give them enemas when they need them?
Date Posted:12:18:11 07/06/09 Mon
Any male parent, giving an enema to their children, especially girls, are highly suspect regarding their motivation, as to why they are giving the enema to a child.
Date Posted:12:50:29 07/06/09 Mon
I agree, Susan. This is a very delicate area best avoided.
My current enemas are mostly self-given, occasionally female-given as in childhood.
Date Posted:13:14:54 07/06/09 Mon
Why is it OK for Mom to give the enemas, or a nurse, or an MD (a male), but suspicious if dad helps give son or daughter an enema? Why should it matter and why would a caring dad be in question as to proper motives?
Date Posted:05:41:58 07/13/09 Mon
I never heard of a dr giving a enema in a patients home,, He might recommend the mom to give it or send out a visting nurse to do it, But no a dr would not do it as it would take up to much of his time for such a simple procedure that the average mom can do.
Date Posted:08:00:55 07/16/09 Thu
Now a doctor would not visit home usually, only 40 years ago, they did visit homes. I know because our family doctor gave me an enema at home too.
Date Posted:11:09:38 07/30/09 Thu
Giving an enema is not that difficult and I can not imagine any mom being so dense that she needed the doctor to show her how to give one. I guess I have to wonder why she would even have an enema bag or bulb in the house if she did notYea know how to use it.
Years ago girls were given home nursing classes in high schools and the topic of enemas was included.
Date Posted:11:56:11 07/30/09 Thu
You wrote that years ago, girls were given home nursing classes in high school, and learned how to give enemas. What year was this...in the 40,50 or sixties?
Date Posted:16:05:09 07/30/09 Thu
I took such a course using a Red Cross text in the mid 60s and suspect that it had been taught in the 40s and 50s as well. My mother recalled such a high school course in the late 30s.
Date Posted:08:24:10 08/03/09 Mon
I don't ever recall a doctor coming to the house, but I do remember one time that I got an enema at the doctor's office. The doctor didn't give it, his nurse did. This was sometime about 1965 or so and she used a white enema can that had a red hose on it. My mother had given me enemas at home before by they were always with a bulb. All I recall was that I was never happy getting enemas but that one at the doctors really made me poop.
Date Posted:08:24:05 08/05/09 Wed
My childhood doctor also had an enema can on a shelf in the examination room, but it was never used on me. Instead I was given all my enemas from a similar can at home, twice on doctor's orders.
As Rob indicated, graduating from a bulb to a 2-qt bag or can is a very memorable experience for many, just because of the increased volume if nothing else.
