Transanal irrigation has often been proven effective as a bowel management therapy for people with neurogenic bowel disorder.
Neurogenic bowel disorder may occur in indications such as multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, spina bifida and Parkinson's disease.
Between 60 and 90% of patients who have undergone an anterior resection due to colon cancer report severe bowel dysfunction in the first 12 months, and 25% have continuing issues. Symptoms include urgency, frequency, fecal incontinence, and flatulence; together these form a condition termed lower anterior resection syndrome (LARS).
A new publication explores the thoughts of patients who decide to try transanal irrigation as a therapy management for LARS and those who decide not to. The patients that try TAI show a high level of satisfaction, describing it as “life changing”.
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