This is poo cast. I'm Rachel a seventh grader in Seattle. Yep. You heard me right? I'm in 7th grade now, which means school's out and summer is here and I'm excited. Let's all get ice cream. Oh wait, no that has dairy in it. That's constipating. Let's get popsicles. Yeah. Okay, they're not the apple juice kind because that's also constipation. Okay, we're good popsicles good. Let's get popsicles. anyway me being a kid just like you. I'm also going on summer break. And poop cast has to go on summer break to unfortunately, and so there won't be any more episodes probably the whole summer, but I still want to keep going to guest. And you can keep proof cats going with your ideas and questions and suggestions. So email them to me at poop cast at outlook.com that's poop cast at outlook.com. Now let's get this party started. In this episode we're going to talk about food. I know what you're thinking Rachel. What does that have to do with poop? Well, if you think about it food has everything to do with poop when you eat food, it gets processed through your digestive system and then it comes out as poop. But what if the food we eat determines the poop we pass? but before we begin, I want to warn you I'm going to say three words that might make you laugh and they are poop fart and but tell me you didn't just laugh. Uh-huh. That's what I thought. I know these words are funny. But keep in mind. We don't want to joke around too much. So now that we've got that out of the way. Let's get on with answering our question. How does the food we eat? Determine the poop we pass to figure it out. I've enlisted the help of a poop expert. My name is Nancy Glass quatrain. I'm a nurse and I'm the owner of the in Caprices Treatment Center in Shoreline Washington and I Three children who have constipation and in Caprices and I've been doing this since 1991 maybe and it is something that I feel very strongly about because a lot of kids have is problem and it's usually under addressed under treated over treated or not identified. And so the child is the one that suffers from this condition and it's often punished or scolded or chided. And feels bad about themselves when it's just a medical problem. It's easily managed. Everyone's got calcium needs if you're 0 to 3 years old, you need about 500 milligrams of calcium every day. If you're four to eight years old, you need about eight hundred milligrams of calcium every day. If you're 9 to 18 years old you need 1300 milligrams of calcium a day. And if you're 19 to 50 years old, you need about 1,000 milligrams of calcium every day. If you're 50 years old and over you need 1,200 milligrams of calcium every day. How do you get enough calcium? Well 8 ounces of milk or 1 cup of milk gets you. milligrams of calcium sodas 1 cup of yogurt or 1 to 2 ounces of cheese depending on the type or a cup of calcium fortified juice can also get you 300 milligrams of calcium. Where does that play into things? So you meet your calcium needs daily. But once those once you've met those needs you stop taking in Dairy because their intensity constipated, but you need some for your bone mass or an alternative such as calcium fortified. Which is calcium fortified soy milk whatever or almond milk or whatever. Yeah. And the cheese is very constipating white flowers constipating you think of things with made with white flour and cheese macaroni and cheese pizza right cheese quesadillas. All these all the goods all the good things that people like to be constipating. That's annoying. So one thing that surprised me was the dairy but also cooked carrots. He said they can be for some people but if you don't like any other vegetables like carrots eat carrots everything in moderation, you know, there's no absolutes here. But if you're going to choose between crackers and popcorn go with popcorn and after and and nectarines Love the nectarines. Miss Allison popcorn and vegetables and I have a lot of water in them and they help. Yeah. So yeah, there is a thing with the skin is really good. Oh Crystal fiber pairs with the spin apples with the skin unless you happen to have braces in which case he should probably go with the crackers. So what we eat does affect how our poop is so instead of pooping our food. Why don't we eat? We want our poop to be what will you eat? You all are doing so well with not joking around too much about Pope. So I figured maybe because we're doing so so well. We should reward ourselves with a little poop joke break eight full cans of alphabet soup yesterday. Okay, then I probably have the biggest bowel movement Evel. What did the pussy to the fault? I don't know. What did the police say to the fart you blew me away. This is it. Have you seen that new movie constipated? No, I haven't it hasn't come out yet. Oh wait. Oh. Poop jokes aren't my favorite jokes. But there was solid Noble to okay. What do you do if you get eaten by an elephant? I don't know. What dude wait. Why would I get eaten by an elephant? That's besides the point. What do you do if you get eaten by an elephant you want to round and round until you all pooped out? Oh, What type of dog loves the bathroom? What dog loves the bathroom? A poodle. Hey, so earlier this episode we talked about food and how it affects our poop but food isn't the only thing that does there are many things that we can do to prevent constipation altogether that involve altering your diet hydration. For example, our bodies are made up of 60% water. Our hearts and our brains are made up of 73 percent water and our lungs are made up of 83 percent water. Our skin is 64% water mussels and kidneys are 79 percent water. Our blood is made up of 92% water. And even our bones are made up of 31 percent water, but most importantly our poop is made up of about 75 percent water as we know the large intestine. Part of our digestive system and its job is to absorb water from poop after it has moved through the small intestine when we don't drink enough water our bodies still need to put enough water into our lungs and our brain and our kidneys and our skin and our muscles and our bones and our blood and because we didn't drink enough water our bodies have to take water from our poop to give everything else the right amount of water. And if our poop doesn't have enough water, it makes it harder to push out or pass. But guess what you get to be a superhero by preventing this from happening to your body and it's as easy as this all you have to do is drink water. How much water should you be drinking? Well, if you're 48 years old you should be drinking 5 cups of water every single day. If you need a grown-up to help you find out how much 5 cups of water is ask grown up. Now if you're 9 to 13 years old and you have female body parts, you should be drinking 7 cups of water every day. And if you have male body parts, you should be drinking 8 cups of water every day. If you're 14 to 18 years old and you have female body parts, you should be drinking 8 cups every day. And if you have male body parts, you should be drinking 11 cups every day and when exercising or in hot weather human beings are supposed to be drinking half a cup to 2 cups of water every 15 to 20 minutes. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a minute. That's a lot of water. How am I supposed to be drinking all that water in one day? Here are some tips 1 if your urine or p is really yellow. You aren't drinking enough. It should be yellowish clear or really? Just clear to try drinking one cup of water every hour three try drinking one cup of water at every meal for get a water bottle. You love being motivated to drink five smart bottles and hide Reminders are expensive, but they remind you to drink when you haven't in a while. I only recommend buying one of these if you aren't like me and drop your water bottle over 300 times in the span of two weeks. I counted six try a sticker chart for every 10 15 20 steps or 1 cup. You drink you get a sticker on your chart for every chart you complete you earn a reward talk to your parents about what a reward might look like. Like I like candy popsicle. Pokemon cards Barbie dolls Hot Wheels stuffed animals Legos Bubbles and sidewalk chalk 7 some people like to infuse their water with lemon herbs or other fruit to make it taste different 8 grown-ups should avoid drinking alcohol because it dehydrates the body kids should avoid drinking alcohol because it's illegal for them to drink it nine eat food. Foods that have a lot of water in them like celery strawberries grapefruits cucumbers Tomatoes cantaloupe cauliflower zucchini spinach yogurt peaches oranges broccoli bell peppers ridership. Carrots lettuce eggs, and of course watermelon 10 write down how much you drink in a day see if you can beat your record. And 11 compete with a friend. Another thing you can do about your poop is taking medication. Do you know what a laxative is? Yes. Well, I bet you didn't know that the word laxative literally means to loosen or relax. Did you know that no. Well, there are three types of laxatives osmotic stimulant and bow. In agents osmotic laxatives gently help the: direct water toward the stool osmotic laxatives are sometimes called stool softeners because they soft in the stool stimulant laxatives Force the muscles to push out the poop. Okay agents increase it did increase in the fiber in the diet in the colon and they pull liquid into the stool into the store itself. So it helps if you drink water with it, if you have bulking agents without water it turns into concrete. You have to inquire if you're going to have bulking agents. So there you go. Wow, we covered a lot this episode. They talked about food and how it affects our poop. We talked about staying hydrated and we talked about laxatives. Well, that's it for this episode of group cast. See you next time.
In this episode, we learned about how what goes in our bodies affects what comes out. In other words, we explored how what foods to eat affects our poop. We offered tips on how to stay hydrated (why? Listen to find out!) and we discussed medications with a little help from Nancy Glass-Quattrin, RN, BSN. Learn more at her website:  https://www.encopresistreatment.com/  Discuss with your child after listening:   You might set up by having your child tell you things they can do to take care of their body (ex: brushing teeth, eating growing food, etc.) Then you can segway into taking care of their stomach. You can ask, "What eating habits can you incorporate into your life?" Talk to your child about drinking more water and about taking medication, and make sure they understand why they're doing it. It has been summer for a few weeks now, which means I am officially a 7th grader! That being, I am on summer break just like you, and won't be coming out with any more episodes for a little while, but I still want to keep going, and I bet you want me to, too! You can keep Poopcast going with your marvelous ideas! Do you have questions about poop or suggestions for future episodes? Send them to me at poopcast@outlook.com! Thanks so much to Andrea, Missy, Courtney, Sigal, Nance, Caleb, Andy, Debbie, and Nancy Glass-Quattrin for helping make Poopcast possible. I wouldn't have been able to have done ant of this without you all! 