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New polyethylene glycol electrolyte solution for the treatment of constipation and faecal impaction
A Ferguson1, P Culbert, H Gillett
1Department of Medicine, Western General Hospital, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Italian Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
|March 22, 2000
Abstract:
Results from a controlled clinical trial indicate that low doses of polyethylene glycol solutions are more effective and have fewer side-effects than lactulose. Large doses of polyethylene glycol are effective in the treatment of faecal impaction. Resolution of faecal impaction was obtained in all patients, and in 25/30 patients with three administrations in a three-day period.