Say goodbye to constipation tips

This is the 3709th article of Da Yi Xiao Nursing

It is generally believed that the state of health is "to eat, to sleep, to pull out".

These three points are the most basic requirements, and here is one of them - "pull out".

"Can't pull out" is constipation, according to statistics, 27% of people have ever had constipation.

PART1 What is constipation?

Is it constipation that doesn't have a bowel movement a day, or that the stool is not once a day, but once every two days?

In fact, constipation is not calculated by the number of times, but depends on whether each row is very difficult, time-consuming, and dry stool.

If you don't defecate for a few days or even once a week, or sometimes if you stool too hard, you will have blood in the stool or fissure, and these conditions are real constipation.

If it is simply once every two days, the bowel movement is very smooth, and it is like this for 10 or 20 years, it cannot be called constipation.

PART2 Constipation is related to the entire digestive tract

After the teeth shred the food, through the esophagus to the stomach, and then through the digestion of gastric juice, it becomes something like a paste, into the small intestine, the small intestine absorbs the nutrients, the food residue enters the large intestine, the large intestine will absorb the remaining useful things (including water) a little bit, and finally form a strip of food residue, which is the feces, and finally excreted.

Constipation occurs if the large intestine moves too slowly, or if various reasons prevent the large intestine from moving properly.

PART3 Two cases of constipation

" Slow train pit stop type"

The large intestine is like a slow train, unlike the high-speed train, which is two or three hundred kilometers per hour, this slow train only has a speed of 40 kilometers per hour. What used to be eaten in one day can be discharged every other day, and now it takes every other week to discharge.

This is very common, especially in the elderly and young women.

The main reason is that the nerves and muscles of the intestines are problematic and the peristalsis is slow.

"Arrival type without pit stop" - exit obstruction type.

The difference between it and the "slow train station type" is that the former often has very dry stools, because the time becomes longer, and the water in the feces is sucked less and less, so the stool is very dry.

The latter stool has not been absorbed for a long time, but after reaching the anus, it cannot come out, and the stool is often like mud and sand, not formed, not very dry, but it just can't come out.

There are three possibilities for outlet obstruction

Part4 What should I do if I am constipated?

For ordinary people, if constipation occurs, you can first go to the colonoscopy to see if there are tumors or other problems in the intestine, and first rule out the worst possibilities.

Especially for people whose bowel habits have suddenly changed, such as bowel movements every day, once every two days or once a day, suddenly changed to once every three days or once every five days, or the stool is getting thinner and thinner, and sometimes there is a little blood.

This may be a change caused by a tumor in the intestine, so a colonoscopy is done.

If colonoscopy is fine, consider both of these conditions, and many people have functional constipation if there is no organic lesion.

What should people with functional constipation eat?

You can have a lot of options next, generally "eating".

Of course, I don't advocate using stimulant drugs such as senna or rhubarb.

Temporary use of the problem is not big, if long-term use, the intestine will become black, called "colon black disease."

Poor bowel habits can easily cause constipation

However, we can't rely on laxatives all day to survive, we have to find the cause of constipation.

For many white-collar women, the main reason is poor bowel habits.

People in the middle of the rectum (anus) several times a day contraction very fast period, it contraction has a defecation intention, if you always put the poop intention to hold, slowly, the poop intention is less and less, no longer send you a signal, you will not have a feeling of stool for a day, two or three days without feeling, the stool is getting harder and harder, but can not pull out.

So when is the contraction of the rectum most intense?

It's around breakfast.

The habit of many people to defecate is to get up in the morning, have a defecation intention before and after eating breakfast, go to the stool, and then relax all day. But many people sleep late at night, like to sleep late in the morning, miss the time when the rectal contraction of the human body at six or seven or seven or eight o'clock is the most intense, and then the intention of defecation is less and less.

【Cultivate bowel habits】

The habit of defecation can be cultivated by training, that is, using Pavlov's doctrine - conditioned reflexes.

● Choose a time to cultivate the bowel movement, if you do not feel it, you can first use the open plug, or a small soap, rub a small strip into the anus, stimulate the intestines to laxative.

● At this time of the day, put the catechetus into the anus, it doesn't matter if you can't pull it out, wait a while, and then come back the next day.

● Slowly to this point in time, the intestines say, "I need to contract a little, I'm going to defecate." ”

After developing this habit of bowel movements, constipation will be better.

Of course, biofeedback can also be used to train the coordination of the defecation muscle group.

After sharing these tips for treating constipation, I hope that those who are deeply troubled by constipation can successfully complete one of the three major events in life - pulling out, can be pulled smoothly and quickly.

There are many causes of constipation, please consult a specialist for more details.

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