Digestive Care

In different colours, we'd call it Ringtones.

Advantages: Can be bought over the counter, along with black pudding and sun-dried tomato paste.
Disadvantages: Self-diagnosis. And the rest.

'Scuse the title, but we have to hook the under-twelves on this site, haven't we? Well, where do you start? I mean, if your friend has a problem, and he wants to share it with the nation, but wants to remain anonymous, do you, as a wannabe journalist, give your friend an alter ego, pop in a disclaimer at the end of the opinion – or just expose his/her a*se to public scrutiny and be damned? Well, we don’t talk about piles, do we? We don’t even ...
...For your information, piles are four words up from haggis in the Penguin Pocket English Dictionary. Sadly, because of our reluctance to talk about the subject, few of us actually know what hammer-heads are. We all hear the myths and the superstitions, but our knowledge is limited to the gross inaccuracies of the plethora of jokes on the subject. Which is why my friend, on discovering an itch and a little bit of discharge, oscillated between a plook ...

Aspen 06.08.2002 · Read full review
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The Ex Factor

Advantages: tastes of chocolate, they work
Disadvantages: could appeal to children, abuse

...you will find Ex-Lax. Ex-Lax Senna Chocolate Laxatives come in a little cardboard packet, which has a main blue colour to it. It does stand out quite well among the other packets, with 'Ex-Lax' written in blue block capitals across the middle. The thing that I think makes these most appealing is the little picture of chocolate on the front. These are 'chocolate laxatives', made to taste more appealing than horrid brown laxative tablets. If I am honest, ...
...Each of the twenty four ex-lax tablets contans 15mg of sennosides, which is around average for your usual laxatives you buy in stores. Sennosides come from Senna leaves, and is used often as a natural laxative. It sounds quite reliable, and indeed it does work! Inside the Ex-Lax packet there is a leaflet with all the safety precautions, such as not being able to take this under certain circumstances etc. It is worth reading this just in case - you ...

Amy69 22.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Ex-Lax Chocolate Laxative

Goodness gracious great buns of fire!

Advantages: Smite those flames
Disadvantages: Could brush your teeth with it by accident

...in question do for you? Anusol ointment is a treatment designed specifically for the treatment of haemorrhoids. It is packaged in a blue and white box which contains a tube of ointment which looks very similar to most toothpastes (try not to get them mixed up, I would not recommend cleaning your teeth with this stuff!) and an instruction leaflet. The flesh coloured cream inside is very sticky, very sticky indeed. To apply you should place some of ...
...the symptoms I have mentioned above. Most haemorrhoids are painful but not serious. However, they could hide other problems and a quick check up may be a little embarrassing, but it’s better to be sure after all! You can also buy anusol suppositories but I haven’t tried them personally! ...

Judgee 19.01.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Anusol Ointment

Suffering From Explosive Squits?

Advantages: Fast and effective
Disadvantages: Cost and Constipation

Saturday night started off with a bottle of Rioja during the Grand National, which led to a visit to the pub to spend my winnings which were enough for a round, of JD and cokes for everyone. This inevitably led to more JD and coke intermingled with Erdinger, Vodka and coke, Kronenbourg (for some reason that escapes me), Tequila, Sambuca and Jaegermeister, all topped off with a Kebab on the way home. Not surprisingly this led to a case of explosive ...
...tasted funny…… I needed a cure and needed it fast, I was not even sure that I was going to make it as far as Boots, especially after I had an accident in the lift which ruined a pair of pants and an old pair of jeans. Upon entering Boots I immediately spotted the Immodium Instants and as it would be a good ten minutes before I got home then it had to be these babies. So I slapped a fiver on the counter and got a couple of quids worth of change. ...

Champ666 13.04.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Imodium Instants

Poke this in your eye

Advantages: Pain relief
Disadvantages: buying a very obvious product

...my motives)** ***Subject: Anusol suppositories. ***Why?: ‘cos my bum is a disaster area since being pregnant and giving birth to what felt like a professional football player, and having a vaginal caesarean to do so didn’t help either! ***Technical name of problem: Haemorrhoids, piles, pile-warts, etc etc. To cut a long story short, I shall simply say that having detected more pain than usual, that involved itching, stinging and extreme tearsineyes ...
...with that name!!??) I chose Anusol suppositories, as I didn’t fancy a squelchy bottom due to ointment, or cream. (incidentally these are the other formats Anusol comes in) o.k, if you have got this far and are not sure if this is the product for you, or even if you are unsure of whether you have haemorrhoids even....maybe you want to look at this checklist and make your mind up. ***What are piles/haemorrhoids? These are swollen blood vessels, which ...

Anfield 28.10.2002 · Read full review
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Review of Anusol Suppositories