56 results about "Bowel cleansing" patented technology

The field of colonic diagnostic and surgical procedures is hampered by the lack of optimal means available to cleanse the colon. A compromise between convenient, distasteful, solid or low volume, hyperosmotic solutions which cause considerable fluid and electrolyte imbalances in patients and large volume, difficult to consume, iso-osmotic solutions has had to be made heretofore. This invention describes a low volume, hyper-osmotic solution consisting of sulfate salts with and with out polyethylene glycol. Unlike prior art, this composition is useful for the cleansing of the bowel and, in lower volumes, as a laxative, without producing clinically significant changes in bodily function.

This invention relates to novel colonic purgative compositions in a solid dosage form, comprising at least one purgative and at least one soluble, or soluble, nonfermentable binder, such as polyethylene glycol. Further, this invention relates to methods of using the colonic purgative compositions. The present compositions and methods are designed to improve patient tolerance and compliance, while at the same time improving the quality of bowel cleansing. The formulations and methods of this invention are particularly useful to cleanse the bowel prior to diagnostic and surgical procedures and can also be employed in lower dosages as a laxative to promote elimination and/or to relieve constipation.

The present invention provides compositions for bowel cleansing that have improved palatability through the inclusion of a sweetener, such as a chlorinated sucrose isomer. The invention also provides methods of reducing the saltiness of an orally consumed substance, including phosphate salt and PEG/salt bowel cleansers, through the use of a sweetener. Utilizing a sweetener including Sucralose to reduce the saltiness of a substance unexpectedly contradicts the conventional belief that sweeteners amplify saltiness.

A system, method, software arrangement and computer-accessible medium for performing electronic cleansing of CT colonography images are provided. In this system, method, software arrangement and computer-accessible medium, the digital bowel cleansing can be performed to remove tagged bowel contents from the images. The digital bowel cleansing can apply a local shape analysis throughout the images and use a shape-based speed function to detect the folds and polyps structures while removing the tagged bowel contents region. The system, method, software arrangement and computer-accessible medium can enable a medical examiner to perform an accurate virtual colonoscopy on a patient, without the need for thorough patient preparation.

The present invention relates to a dry composition for reconstitution in water comprising polyethylene glycol (PEG), optionally sodium sulphate, citric acid, sodium citrate, sodium chloride, potassium chloride, simethicone, effective for bowel cleansing, in particular of colon, prior to diagnostic, surgical or therapeutical procedures, in particular colonoscopy.

It is provided a bowel cleansing preparation which is useful in the pretreatment prior to colonoscopy or colonic surgery containing a water-soluble polymer and electrolytes of 30-150 mEq/L of sodium ion, 3-20 mEq/L of potassium ion, and 10-30 mEq/L of bicarbonate ion, wherein 0.1-3 g/dL of magnesium ion as magnesium element is contained, and polyethylene glycol having an average molecular weight of about 7,300 to about 9,300 is used as the water-soluble polymer.

The invention relates to an adjustable-negative-pressure multifunctional excrement drainage device. The adjustable-negative-pressure multifunctional excrement drainage device comprises a drainage tube, a high-filling low-pressure liquid filling ball fixing device which is arranged at the front end of the drainage tube, an antifouling and anti-backflow tube and device connecting device which is arranged at the rear end of the drainage tube, an adjustable-negative-pressure excrement collector which is connected with the antifouling and anti-backflow tube and device connecting device, a ball liquid filling catheter which is arranged in parallel with the drainage tube and has a front end communicated with the high-filling low-pressure liquid filling ball fixing device and a rear end provided with a controllable liquid filling device, and an enema and medicine injection catheter which is arranged in parallel with the drainage tube and has a front end with an opening formed in the top of the front end of the drainage tube and a rear end provided with a controllable administration device. A fully-closed excrement drainage and collection system is created, not only can injuries to the crissum skin of a patient, infection, secondary contamination and peculiar smell be reduced, but also the drainage device has multiple clinical treatment and use functions such as feces dilution, excrement drainage and bowel cleansing, enema and medicine injection and treatment, and the diagnosis and treatment efficiency is improved.

An enema includes a liquid in a dispenser having a bottle, a nozzle attached to the bottle, and a valve. The valve may be a membrane having a slit and a thickness of at most 0.90 mm. The valve may be attached to the bottle or it may be attached to the nozzle. The enema can be administered more easily, with a lower amount of force. A method of bowel cleansing includes inserting the enema into a rectum and applying a compression force to the enema bottle.

A method to induce bowel cleansing which employs electrolyte-free polyethylene glycol containing compositions is provided.

The invention discloses a tremella dried bean curd preparation method. The tremella dried bean curd is prepared from the raw materials of, by weight, 1000-1200 parts of soybean, 10-12 parts of schoberia-like asparagus root, 10-12 parts of water-shield, 40-45 parts of tremella, 10-15 parts of salvia miltiorrhiza, 10-12 parts of scouring rush, 10-12 parts of Japanese butterbur, 10-12 parts of angelica root, 10-12 parts of water dropwort, 10-12 parts of cushaw flower, 5-8 parts of Chinese cinquefoil herb, 20-30 parts of chili, 5-8 parts of pitaya flower, 10-12 parts of kirilow rhodiola, 10-12 parts of fragrant solomonseal rhizome, 10-12 parts of shiitake, 10-12 parts of mulberry leaf, 8-10 parts of creeping liriope, 8-10 parts of cherokee rose fruit, 5-8 parts of cultivated purple perilla leaf, 3-6 parts of figwort, 3-4 parts of cassiabarktree twig, and 3-6 parts of angelica root. According to the invention, various potherbs and medicinal and edible traditional Chinese medicine health-care components are added into dried bean curd raw materials. Tremella has mild and nontoxic nature, and has functions of spleen nourishing, appetite promoting, qi benefiting, bowel cleansing, yin nourishing, and lung moistening. Also, with tremella, body immunity can be ehnahnced, such that tumor patient tolerance to radiotherapy and chemotherapy is enhanced. Also, with a multi-grinding process, bean residue is reduced, and dietary fiber in bean residue is added into soymilk. Therefore, human gastrointestinal movement is facilitated, and defecation is assisted.

This invention relates, e.g., to a composition comprising two or more of: (a) N-acetylcysteine and/or (b) simethicone and/or (c) a docusate salt. In one embodiment of the invention, the amounts of (a) and/or (b) and/or (c) are effective, when the composition is administered into a colon of a subject undergoing colonoscopy, to cleanse a region of the colon in the visual field of the colonoscope so that the region contains no adherent stool or intestinal secretions obscuring the visual field. Methods for using this or other compositions of the invention, e.g. to cleanse the colon of a subject in order to enhance visualization of the colon during a colonoscopy, are also described, as are kits for carrying out methods of the invention.

The invention discloses bowel cleansing and relaxing tea. The bowel cleansing and relaxing tea comprises the following components in parts by weight: 10-20 parts of honeysuckle, 5-10 parts of chrysanthemum, 5-10 parts of radix angelicae, 10-15 parts of unprocessed radix aconiti lateralis, 20-30 parts of honey, 30-40 parts of broadleaf holly leaf and 300-500 parts of purified water. The bowel cleansing and relaxing tea disclosed by the invention is low in preparation cost, has a good bowel cleansing and relaxing effect, and cannot have side effect after long-time use because of pure traditional Chinese medicine ingredients.

A method is disclosed for cleansing bowels prior to a colonic procedure utilizing conventional preparations along with potatoes.

The invention provides polyethylene glycol-electrolyte oral solution, which comprises 59 to 60 grams of polyethylene glycol, 1.0 to 1.5 grams of sodium chloride, 0.5 to 1.0 gram of potassium chloride, 1.5 to 2.0 grams of sodium bicarbonate, 5.5 to 6.0 grams of sodium sulfate, 0.02 to 0.5 gram of edentate, 0.02 to0.5 gram of sweetener, 1 to 2 milliliters of flavoring essence and the balance of deionized water, wherein the solution is 1,000 milliliters. The polyethylene glycol-electrolyte oral solution is used in bowel cleansing and has the characteristics of quick response, safety, reliability and good cleansing effect. The oral solution is mainly suitable for cleansing bowels before colonoscopy, barium enema X-ray examination and gastrointestinal operation. The small-dose (about one eighth of a bowel cleansing dose) products of the oral solution can be used for treating chronic constipation.

The invention discloses a preparation method of gynecological preoperative bowl-cleansing oral granules and solves the problems in gynecological preoperative treatment. The preparation method is characterized in that the granules are made with, by weight, 10-30 parts of horseweed herb, 6-12 parts of cinnamon seeds, 3-10 parts of Chinese mosla, 6-12 parts of Chinese starjasmine stem, 3-10 parts of loofah sponge, 6-12 parts of Barbary wolfberry fruit, 6-12 parts of Dipsacus root, 6-12 parts of grassleaf sweelflag rhizome, 6-12 parts of sunflower flower, 1-5 parts of Turbo cornutus solander, 3-10 parts of ox horn bone, and 10-25 parts of magnesium sulfate. The preparation method includes: 1, extracting essential oil for use from the rough powders of the Dipsacus root, cinnamon seeds and loofah sponge; 2, crushing the Turbo cornutus solander and ox horn bone into fine powder for use; 3, adding water to decoct the horseweed herb, Chinese mosla, Chinese starjasmine stem, Barbary wolfberry fruit, sunflower flower and grassleaf sweelflag rhizome for two times, filtering, combining filtrate, condensing the filtrate, adding ethanol to allow for sedimentation, taking supernate, recovering the ethanol, and condensing to obtain thick paste; 4, adding the essential oil obtained in the step 1, the fine powder obtained in the step 2 and magnesium sulfate into the thick paste obtained in the step 3, mixing well to obtain granules, and drying the granules. Clinical experiments show that the granules have good effect of gynecological preoperative bowel cleansing and is worthy of clinical application and popularization.

The invention provides compositions for rapid bowel cleansing comprising a water-soluble mixture of polyethylene glycol and sodium phosphate(s). The compositions are particularly useful for preparing the bowel prior to surgery or diagnostic procedures such as colonoscopies. The invention further comprises methods for cleansing the bowel using these compositions, and bowels cleansing kits comprising these compositions.

The present invention relates to a composition for improving the side effects of oral gut purging or intestinal preparation agent electrolyte disorders. Specifically, the invention provides a composition which comprises arabinose, sodium sulfate, sodium chloride, potassium chloride and sodium bicarbonate. The invention finds that oral administration of arabinose, sodium sulfate, sodium chloride, potassium chloride and sodium bicarbonate can effectively improve the side effects of electrolyte disorder, intestinal mucosa permeability increase, intestinal mucosa injury, intestinal mucosa barrierdamage and the like caused in the intestinal tract preparation process of the bowel cleansing agent or the intestinal tract preparation agent; therefore, side effects caused by oral administration ofthe gut purge or the intestinal tract preparation are improved, and health recovery of intestinal tract preparation of a patient is improved.

The present invention relates to a purgative composition containing polyethylene glycol and sodium picosulfate, wherein the stability of sodium picosulfate is improved by adding a pH controller. According to the present invention, the purgative composition ensures the stability of medicinal ingredients and has a great advantage of having a small dose even while showing a bowel cleansing rate greater than or equal to a commercial preparation, which should be taken in a large dose. In addition, according to the present invention, the composition has high compliance due to a good taste.

The present invention provides compositions for bowel cleansing that have improved palatability through the inclusion of a sweetener, such as a chlorinated sucrose isomer. The invention also provides methods of reducing the saltiness of an orally consumed substance, including phosphate salt and PEG/salt bowel cleansers, through the use of a sweetener. Utilizing a sweetener including Sucralose to reduce the saltiness of a substance unexpectedly contradicts the conventional belief that sweeteners amplify saltiness.