Let’s talk about poo! It’s tweet chat time …

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Here’s the transcript & fab wordcloud from the tweet chat on 1st August – patients & nurses all talking about poo!

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This Thursday 1st August at 8pm, We Nurses will be hosting a tweet chat about constipation problems, at my suggestion. Here’s my earlier blog on constipation induced by psychiatric medication, including 25 tips you can try for yourself. It is my most read blog piece ever. I guess that makes me some sort of Poo Queen. Hmm …

However, if it gets people talking about an important but often overlooked or covered up topic, that’s all to the good. Let’s break the taboo about poo and make a date in our diaries for this Thursday’s poo chat!

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Background reading:

• My blog on the topic:  Constipation: embarrassment, discomfort … and Poo Pride!
• From We Nurses:
  • link to the guide on the upcoming tweet chat: Talking about poo
  • Tweet chats made simple – handy guide to tweet chats if you’re a newbie
• NHS Choices: Constipation
• What is the Bristol stool form scale anyway …? A brief overview

The Bristol stool tart cake!

 

Additional information on constipation:

• BUPA: Constipation
• Cancer Research UK:
  • Symptoms of constipation
  • Causes of constipation
  • Assessing your constipation
• Patient UK:
  • Constipation in adults
  • Constipation in children
• Royal College of Nursing: Management of lower bowel dysfunction

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