Foods that are laxative

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I’ve got sciatica and pooping is painful right now, and my poops are quite hard. I could take a laxative to help this, but would like to change my diet first. I already eat home cooked food with lots of vegetables, and an apple a day, sometimes other fruit. I also exercise a lot and drink a lot of water. I’ve stewed plums and rhubarb, but it doesn’t seem to have helped. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Golden linseeds are useful, I soak a tablespoon in bit of hot water for half an hour and just neck them, slimey goodness.
Also dried apricots prunes, figs of course.
Try to look at everything you eat and add or swap in fibre. Baked potato instead of mash, seedy bread instead of white.
Lots of peas or beans with everything and a satsuma at any opportunity.
Make sure to drink plenty of fluids too!

Quorn

Ripe bananas. Syrup of figs.

These sweets with malitol in from Aldi do it for me. Or chocolate e.g. Cadbury Fruit and Nut.

I can fully second this one. Don’t ask me how I know. Just don’t eat the full pack and then start your journey on the motorway. 😳

I had rectal prolapse repair about ten years ago. Not fun post operatively. I would highly recommend tinned pear by the can full.

A tablespoon of chia seeds in breakfast cereal or yoghurt. Don’t take them without enough liquid though.
Prune juice
Prunes - plums not the same effect
Pears
Plenty of veg for lunch and dinner
Fruit lunch and dinner - berries are good
Lentils
Sweet potatoes
nuts

All bananas bung me up but if I’m constipated eating an entire punnet of grapes sorts me out.

Another vote for pears - always.

Also drinking a pint of water on waking gets the peristaltic movement going.

Kiwi fruit and chia seeds

A bowl of porridge every day. You will never be constipated!

Figs (the semi=soft preserved ones)
Carton pineapple juice
Prunes (tinned will do)

Filter coffee.

Late FIL used to swear by pontefract cakes.

For me it’s grapes, pears, chocolate or tomato soup.
Also one memorable occasion where I chewed a full pack of Wrigley’s Extra Spearmint gum (xylitol) but I’ve never dared use it again so don’t know if they’ve changed the recipe since.

Apples, pears, kiwi, peppers, raspberries, chilli, linseed, chiaseeds, walnuts, peanuts, ryevita, onions, lentils, peas, celery

Chia seeds. Gods gift to people with constipation. Gently work to move things through by drawing water in to the gut to make it softer when you do go, and also form a gel like structure to physically clear the way through. Tasteless. Tiny. No real impact on blood sugar. Brilliant things!

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They give you incredibly painful gas. Seriously painful.
God they're so good chipped though.

A fag then a coffee with your feet up on a stool 👌🏼

Coffee, pears, prunes (baby pouches are kept for emergencies here), fennel tea works very quickly

In the childrens rehabilitation centre

kiwi fruit

I think that's the healthiest option too.

for me an excessive amount of peanuts has that affect.

A tablespoonful of wheat bran on your cereal every morning.
Live in a hard water area.

Coffee and sugar free Aldi sweets, only try when you know you'll be home!

A glass of fresh orange juice with bits in.
Apple sauce.
Carrots.

Live culture yogurt, kimchi, sauerkraut. Drink lots of water and eat lots of fruit, the sweeter and riper the better. Grapes, figs, prunes...