Bumps

Dehydration
You may have noticed that when you take a laxative for constipation relief, it makes your stool much runnier than it would usually be. That is not magic. The laxative pulls water from your body to mix with the waste to make it flow out of your system more easily. This is water that your body also needs to survive. The prolonged usage of laxatives can actually lead to you being more dehydrated. As soon as you stop using laxatives, being dehydrated will mean that your stool will not have the water it needs to be of a natural softness and you will become constipated.

What Can You Do?
If you are reliant on laxatives at this time to keep as your method of constipation relief, you may wonder what you can do to stop the cycle. Do you want to suffer with constipation while your body tries to get back to normal? You shouldn’t. Instead you need to help your colon reclaim its health.