Equipment Standards
All about using appropriate equipment. In the early days of colonic irrigations, there were all sorts of equipments were available and in which some of them are only usaed for self-administration (e.g., the JBL Cascade, Tyrrell, 1913).
Some of the equipments are no longer in usage, for example the involved tubes intended to be inserted all the way to the cecum (e.g., the “high colonic” equipment judged as unsafe by Bastedo, 1932 and Krusen, 1936). Recently, however, standards for colonic equipment have been established, and most equipment in use is registered with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
This equipment features temperature controlled water mixing and back flow prevention valves, pressure and temperature sensors, and a built-in chemical sanitizing unit and/or water purification unit.
The tube is intended for insertion only about 3 inches into the rectum, and the equipment is designed to prevent infection by using disposable single-use parts.
However, these devices are approved only as Class II medical devices for bowel cleansing, and technically can only be sold to a physician or on a physician’s prescription.
