6.4 – Self-managing bowel dysfunction
Please note that as of 6th June 2023, the Association for Continence Advice (ACA) has now changed its name to the Association for Continence Professionals (ACP). Some of the videos included in this module will still have the ACA branding, and we can confirm that these videos are still current.
Diet can be important when self-managing bowel dysfunction.
‘Anne’ has neurogenic bowel dysfunction as well as neurogenic bladder dysfunction.
Watch her explaining what she does to manage her bowel dysfunction which is caused by multiple sclerosis.
Your task
Refer to the table of different laxatives and decide what type of laxative you might recommend to help ‘Anne’ if she was no longer able to self-manage her bowel using diet.
From the video, what does she tell you about her bowel functioning that would help you to decide the type of laxative that might best help her?