People who struggle with chronic constipation have a new drug-free option to help get things moving again: a first-of-its-kind capsule that's swallowed and vibrates to stimulate the colon.
It’s a first-of-its-kind capsule about is the size of a regular pill – but instead of releasing medication after it’s swallowed, it vibrates to stimulate the colon. The capsules, called Vibrant, was cleared by the US Food and Drug Administration in August but just became available for doctors to prescribe this week. Doctors consider a person to be constipated when they’re having fewer than three bowel movements in a week.
The percentage of patients who reported two or more additional bowel movements each week was 23% in the group that took the Vibrant pills and about 12% in the group taking the placebo. Most people said they couldn’t feel the pills working, but some did. “A minority could feel it,” said Dr. Eamonn Quigley, chief of gastroenterology at Houston Methodist Hospital. Quigley helped test the capsules, but he doesn’t have any financial stake in the company. “None of them felt it was being uncomfortable.
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