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Laxatives (purgatives, aperients) are foods, compounds, or drugs taken to induce bowel movements or to loosen the stool most often taken to treat costipation . Certain stimulant, lubricant, and saline laxatives are used to evacuate the colon for rectal and/or bowel examinations, and may be supplemented by enemas under certain circumstances. Sufficiently high doses of laxatives cause diarrhoea. Laxatives work to increase the movement of fecal matter along the colon.
How Do Laxatives Work? When someone has a normal bowel movement, the stool is formed by the absorption of waste, unwanted nutrients, electrolytes and water within the gut. These normally come together to make a soft-but-solid substance that is then able to easily pass through the digestive tract.