Things To Know About Suppositories, From A Longtime User

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They don’t speed up food processing
Oral laxatives can speed up the breaking down of food to a dangerous degree, almost making it so that your body absorbs no nutrients. To put it in simple terms: oral laxatives turn food into feces quicker than that should typically happen. Suppositories only extract feces that already exist, but that are stuck in the lower intestine.