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Why Laxatives are dangerous?
Use of laxatives either as pills or liquid, or herbal is dangerous and irrational because these cause the body to lose fluid, which causes water retention and bloating can happen where in the patient would like to lose more weight by injecting more laxatives.

People appear to be losing weight with laxatives because of the close watch on calorie intake and restriction on food consumption by inducing sensation like vomiting.

Note: A laxative stimulates the large bowel to empty, when the food is totally assimilated through the small intestines.

Phenolphthalein is a constituent in many laxatives which has been withdrawn because it got linked to cancer.