Today’s interesting fact has to do with colonic irrigation.

A recent study at St George University in the UK has taken followed the health records of a large number of individuals who have had colonic irrigation over a number of years.

The outcome of the study suggests that there are no health benefits to colonic irrigation, instead it can actually be bad for you as it may remove beneficial bacteria and there are side effects that can vary from nausea, vomiting, intestinal injury and death.

Doctors sometimes give patients with impacted faeces an enema, but these tend to use no more than a half a litre of an isotonic fluid or distilled water.

A colonic irrigation on the other hand can have as much as 65 litres of water introduced into the large intestine.

It has been known for a number of years that the introduction of water used in a colonic irrigation can cause blood isotonic issues, where the process of osmosis means at essential salts are drawn from the blood into the intestine, which is why doctors often use isotonic fluids.

But until now, no one has ever done a study to see what the benefits of colonic irrigation actually are, and now we know there are none.