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Hi i have a problem. i don't go to yhe toilet every morning. ....in on week may be only one time?

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Dr. Donald Alves answered

Specializes in Emergency Medicine

Stool softener: If you are otherwise healthy, this "could" be normal for you--but tends to predispose to colon cancer & other issues w/age. Better to increase fiber in diet (fruits--prunes?), or fiber gummies, or dissolving fiber (miralax (polyethylene glycol) or citrucel are very well tolerated for long term use), to increase frequency of bm to at least every other day to keep the toxins exiting.

Answered 8/19/2014

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