Constipation from Mountain House meals

Severe constipation has been affecting me since eating a non-rehydrated mountain house packet. No movement. 

Has anyone else had this problem? Any tips / tricks?

Thanks. Will post updates as things move along.

Drink boiling water, do jumping jacks to agitate the mixture in your colon, and excrete into your camping bowl or mug. Stir, wait 3 minutes to cool, and enjoy. 

Lemon juice and oil olive 1/4 cup of each 

Mix together drink 

But why...

Chris C. wrote:

But why...

Only three reasons to do something that dumb.

1. Too much cervesa to work the stove.
2. Someone dared him to do it.
3. There was a girl that needed impressing.

JB ;)

GrumpyCat wrote:

Thanks. Will post updates as things move along.

Please don't!

Remember: Mountain House eaten unhydrated have a conventional right-hand thread. For extraction, it's Lefty Loosey!

Problem solved

a nurse told me warm prunce juice with a pad of butter.  stay close to the toilet after consuming

This is the best thread title I've seen in a while here

Minutes after laughing at your constipation conundrum, for the first time in my life I took a shit so big and hard that it clogged up my toilet. Spend an hour of my time and a bottle of rubbing alchohol. 

Karma....

If I told you I was pooping whilst reading this thread, would you be jealous?

John Long covers the perils of eating too much dehydrated food quite well in, "A Confederacy of Dunces". He survived with laxative and lots of beer.  

I've literally tried an entire pack of laxatives in the past 72 hours and still nothing. I even tried an epsom salt enema (like, drinking a liter of epson salt water). Same results. Nothing.

Eventually you gotta go to the doctor. As far as I know, your body will eventually be poisoned from the poop and you can get pretty sick. 

Ps. Feed my morbid curiosity! Why did you do this? What flavor was it? Was it rice or noodles?? 

GrumpyCat wrote:

I've literally tried an entire pack of laxatives in the past 72 hours and still nothing. I even tried an epsom salt enema (like, drinking a liter of epson salt water). Same results. Nothing.

I hope you have your raincoat and galoshes ready for when its finally time for clean up.

Holy gods, dude..  That's terrible..  If nothing shakes loose (giggity) in the next 2 days, you need to see a doctor..  Google "scatoma", and keep in mind this is eventually going to have to come out, one way or the other..

Hope everything comes out all right..!

Mike

GrumpyCat wrote:

I've literally tried an entire pack of laxatives in the past 72 hours and still nothing. I even tried an epsom salt enema (like, drinking a liter of epson salt water). Same results. Nothing.

I pretty sure that enemas are not to be drunk. To paraphrase Steve Jobs "You're doing it wrong". 

Chris C. wrote:

Eventually you gotta go to the doctor. As far as I know, your body will eventually be poisoned from the poop and you can get pretty sick. 

Ps. Feed my morbid curiosity! Why did you do this? What flavor was it? Was it rice or noodles?? 

Uh, a friend of mine had found a mountain house from like 1996 or so, from before the label changed.

Opened it up at tasted it... it was delicious so I just kept eating.

The thing I'm really worried about is if I can't drop all the weight then I'm not going to be able to send my projects. Plus the added weight is increasing the amount of force I fall with, don't want a marginal placement to pop just because of a mountain house.

Ingest Castor Oil.  It will work very quickly, in 2-6 hrs.

http://www.healthline.com/health/digestive-health/castor-oil-for-constipation#4

 Reminds me of when I was backpacking a lot...the only Mt House that was meant to be eaten dry was their Ice Cream.