The Best Cure for Constipation

Ruth: Hi! My name is Ruth; I'm from Smithtown, New York. My question is, what is the best way to ease constipation.

Dr. Toomas Sorra: Well, Ruth, if constipation is the only symptom that you have, if there's no abdominal pain or other associated symptoms then by far and away the easiest thing is to start taking fiber and fiber in the form of supplements is probably the best. You can increase the fiber in your diet and that's fine but the fiber supplements are concentrated, you have to take one dose a day. Take it about a week or two, you'll be taking it and you're constipation 75% of time will be resolved, but the problem is, you can't stop the fiber; you should continue it indefinitely. But it will work.




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