constipate
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Dalia Lara often drives an hour from her Federal Way home to buy the only baby formula that doesn’t constipate her 3-month-old.
From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2022
But they also entomb vast tracts of fertile soil, constipate rivers, choke habitats and – acting as a rock-hard second skin – desensitise us from what is happening outside our urban fortresses.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 25, 2019
I would rather add some nutritious food that won’t constipate her.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2017
Critics fret that the control freakery will now constipate Whitehall: “You couldn’t blow your nose without Nick or Fi knowing,” recalls one former colleague.
From Economist ● Aug. 4, 2016
"When we put patients in bed and forbid them to rise or to make use of their muscles, we at once lessen appetite, weaken digestion in many cases, constipate the bowels, and enfeeble circulation."
From Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria by John K. Mitchell
Very often I meet with women who cannot take iron, either because it disturbs the stomach, causes headache, or constipates, or else because they have been told never to take iron.
From Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria by John K. Mitchell
Caution.—If it causes oppression at the stomach, combine it with an aromatic; if it causes vomiting, give it in wine or soda water; if it purges, give opium; and if it constipates give rhubarb.
From Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Anonymous
“I was like, ‘You know, I don’t like you knowing that I’m constipated in the morning,’” Effrain says he told her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
"You could run into the extremes of eating too much, where if you're not drinking enough water to hydrate and exceed the amount of soluble and insoluble fiber, you can get constipated," Lee said.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 8, 2026
“It taught you to be a lot less constipated about having a bad idea or being made fun of,” he said of his time at Esquire.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025
Ms Perea was 29 when she first visited her GP after feeling constipated and bloated.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2025
And even though I hated getting shuffled around and grabbed by my love handles, my rubbery constipated face did relax into a smile.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
I take a pain medication that is very constipating.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2018
But in addition to being uncomfortably constipating, it can be toxic, even deadly, to the heart.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2016
It is constipating, so he has to take daily stool softeners.
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2010
In other sections of the South, some top their meals with a savory tablespoon of dirt, believing that it is "good for them," despite its constipating effects.
From Time Magazine Archive
Indigestible foods, such as pastry and heavy puddings, as well as foods which leave little residue in the intestine, such as white bread, puddings, arrowroot, are highly constipating.
From Papers on Health by Edward Bruce Kirk
