What to do with constipation

What to do with constipation?

Many people with constipation don’t care much about why they have constipation. They use Kaiserol or laxatives to solve them when they occur, but they often remain the same afterwards, and constipation occurs frequently. Most people probably don’t know why constipation always occurs in a specific group of people, and how to solve this problem completely. In fact, if you want to completely improve constipation, you need to start with changing your living habits, so let us first understand why you have constipation, and then know how to relieve constipation

一、Cause

The process of functional constipation is gradual. At first, it may happen when there is no intention to defecate. At first, the toilet will be used once a day. Later, due to changes in living habits or other reasons, it is not every day that you will feel the need to defecate. It will take a few days to go to the toilet. The body has adapted, as if it had formed a habit. Therefore, arousing bowel movement is probably the most desired thing for most friends who are troubled by constipation.

1. Diet

Nowadays, people’s diet is too fine, and there is almost no residue after the food is digested. If you do not eat high-fiber foods such as vegetables, this situation will cause the colon to not form a sufficient volume of stool, and it is difficult to produce stool every day. Some women with constipation eat too little for the same reason. They eat too little to form a sufficient volume of stool to induce constipation.

If the feces cannot be excreted every day, it stays in the body for too long and becomes dry and hard, the longer it takes, the harder it will be to excrete. Therefore, the countermeasure is to encourage constipation patients to eat more cellulose-containing foods, while ensuring sufficient daily drinking water, because cellulose is not digested by the body, but can absorb water and expand like a sponge, so that the stool will not be too much for the liver and maintain sufficient volume. To stimulate the bowel to produce bowel movements.

2. I don’t like sports and don’t drink enough water

For example, sitting in the office for a day or playing mahjong for a night, lack of water and too little activity are a major characteristic of these people. Too little exercise will reduce the peristalsis of the colon, the feces will stay in the intestines for too long, and the feces will become dry and hard, become smaller in size and difficult to discharge. In addition, due to the less water replenishment, the intestinal tract will absorb more water in the stool, making the stool dry and hard.

3. Get up to the age

Constipation is more common in the elderly, which is mainly related to age. In addition, the elderly are more prone to constipation due to reduced activities. For the elderly with constipation, attention should be paid: volumetric laxatives and osmotic laxatives are the first choice for laxatives. For patients with severe constipation, short-term appropriate stimulant laxatives can also be applied. However, stimulant laxatives must not be relied on, otherwise they will be used more and more. No medicine is available;

4. Other reasons:

Emotional disorder or dysbacteriosis: The normal bowel habits are disrupted by work stress, mental factors, etc., such as irritable bowel syndrome constipation type, intestinal function status is affected by mental factors or dysbacteriosis, and is troubled by this reason Constipation is more common in young women.

Drug-dependent constipation: Abuse of stimulant laxatives to form drug dependence and cause stubborn constipation. Why we do not recommend ordinary people to use laxatives to relieve constipation is because there are many types of laxatives, which cannot be used casually. Although irritating laxatives have an immediate effect when used, long-term use will lead to laxative dependence, until a very large amount is used later Laxatives do not respond, which can be very painful and tricky.

Intestinal abnormalities: such as Hirschsprung’s disease, lengthy colon, etc. This is mainly due to developmental defects, which makes the intestine lack the neuroreceptors that sense and produce stool, and loses the function of regulating normal people to clear the intestine. It is organic constipate.

Second, what should I do then?

The above summarizes the common causes of constipation. Starting from the causes of constipation, several key points for the treatment of constipation are summarized as follows:

1. Morning wake up + breakfast: People are born with two “natural time periods” for defecation: one is the “rising reflex” to get up in the morning; the other is the “stomach-colon reflex” after eating. When you wake up in the morning, change from lying to sitting and then to standing, the intestinal peristalsis will increase, and a huge peristaltic wave will be generated in the intestine to help you push your stool out. After breakfast, the stomach and colon reflexes are obvious (the stomach will notify the large intestine to move quickly), creating another defecation “time”. Therefore, awakening the natural bowel reflex has a multiplier effect on improving constipation.

2. Exercise: Needless to say, the benefits of exercise are also good for improving constipation. Exercise can increase intestinal motility. Doctors after gastrointestinal surgery in the hospital also encourage patients to get out of bed as soon as possible, with the purpose of promoting the recovery of intestinal motility.

3. Eat more fruits and vegetables: This is well understood. Eat more crude fiber, vegetables, fruits and other foods that contain cellulose. It takes a certain percentage to have a laxative effect and supplement enough water. A good diet should be diversified, with a mixture of coarse and fine grains, and a combination of meat and vegetables.

4. Develop regular bowel habits and don’t hold back: develop good bowel habits, such as waking up in the morning, and avoid having a bowel movement while reading the newspaper on the phone. In addition, do not hold back when you have a bowel movement. If you deliberately hold back when the bowel movement comes, this will cause the long-term defecation to fade and cause functional constipation. Therefore, people who are prone to constipation should take care to avoid holding back the bowel movement.

5. Laxatives: Laxatives such as polyethylene glycol and lactulose are recommended. They are safer to use. They are electrolyte mixtures that are not absorbed by sugars. This type of laxative has a mild laxative effect and slower onset. The principle is softening. Stool makes it easy to discharge, can be taken for a long time, and does not produce drug resistance. Avoid regular use of irritating laxatives.

6. ​​Others: For long-term chronic constipation, fecal impaction may occur, the impacted feces should be removed first before comprehensive treatment; drugs that cause constipation should be stopped as much as possible, and attention should be paid to changing lifestyles.

means that functional constipation is caused by bowel dysfunction, and the symptoms can be changed and relieved by adjusting living habits. Organic constipation refers to constipation caused by organic diseases, such as a tumor on the colon, which blocks most of the intestinal cavity, and the stool cannot pass. No matter how much vegetables are eaten, the constipation remains the same. The cause of the organic disease must be resolved. Relieve symptoms of constipation. Generally speaking, most people’s constipation is functional constipation, but patients who haven’t had it for half a month should be vigilant. If it’s organic constipation, it is best to go to the hospital for help

Attachment: Principles of constipation treatment

The purpose of constipation treatment is to relieve symptoms, restore normal intestinal motility and defecation physiological functions. The general principle is individualized comprehensive treatment, including recommending a reasonable dietary structure, establishing correct bowel habits, and adjusting mental and psychological status; treating patients with a clear cause; those who need long-term use of laxatives for maintenance treatment should avoid abuse laxative.