I had to give this patient some Tylenol #3's once and I asked her if she had any problems with constipation. Tylenol #3's are famous for constipating people and a lot of elderly people have this problem to begin with. Anyway, this woman told me that she used to have a problem with it, but one day she was in the health food section of her local grocery store (Safeway probably), and picked up this fibre cereal.
The next morning she sat down at the breakfast table and poured herself a bowl of this new cereal. Later that day she had a huge bowel movement and for a few days after she kept on going and ended up with stomach cramps. Not really knowing what else to do, she goes back to the store and starts talking to her pharmacist. She tells him about her cramps after eating this cereal and in the course of the conversation, he asked her how much of it she ate. She explains to him that all she had was one bowl.
The pharmacist laughs and says, "One bowl?! You're supposed to just sprinkle a little bit of it on your regular cereal!"
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