A short day can be summed up in five words: eat, drink, pull, sprinkle, sleep!
Although these five words sound very cheesy, they are indeed essential physiological activity routes for the human body.
The various foods we eat daily will not be completely digested and absorbed by the human body, only the various nutrients contained in them will be absorbed, and the rest of the food residues will become feces in the intestine, accumulate to a certain extent, and then excrete with the anus. The four words of eating and drinking Lasa are actually the process of the operation of the human digestive system!
However, in life, many people do not pay too much attention to stool, in our view, it is nothing more than the body's metabolic waste, in addition to ugly, emitting a bad smell, there is no use value for the human body.
As everyone knows, in the clinical view, stool is also a barometer of physical health, and the frequency of defecation, fecal color, shape, etc., can reflect health problems.
So, what is the frequency of a truly healthy bowel movement?
First of all, we must clearly realize that the process of food digestion in the body is quite complicated, from the esophagus into the stomach, from the stomach into the intestine, from the small intestine to the large intestine, it takes a long time, and the digestion time of different foods is also different. Usually, food enters the stomach to the stomach for emptying, which is about 2-5 hours or so;
Next, these chymes, which are broken by the stomach, will enter the small intestine and begin to absorb, and the remaining food residue will become a fecal prototype and enter the large intestine, with an average time of about 3-8 hours. The time from food entering the large intestine to forming stool is quite slow and extremely complex, and it can even reach about 17-48 hours.
Because of this, in clinical opinion, as long as adults have more than 3 times of stool per week, it is a healthy performance. Of course, this is not a fixed data, because everyone eats different types of food, amount of food, and intestinal sensitivity every day, so there is no fixed number of bowel movements, as long as you develop your own good bowel habits.
The so-called good bowel habits refer to the law of defecation that is accurate to a certain day and a certain period of time, and has been maintained in this state without change.
More importantly, the stools you excrete are formed, moderately soft and hard, and appear in a yellow-brown state, and on top of this law, whether you have three times a day or three days of stool, it is a normal physiological manifestation, which is a signal of intestinal health.
If only a change in the law of bowel movements occurs by chance, such as an increase in the number of stools on the same day, the stool is not formed, etc., which is mostly related to dietary factors, such as eating a large number of raw and cold foods, greasy foods, etc., which will cause irritation to the intestines. After adjusting the diet, the bowel movements will gradually return to normal, which does not need to be too worried.
However, on the contrary, if the previous bowel movements have been very regular, the frequency of bowel movements has suddenly changed recently.
For example, the frequency of bowel movements is more and more frequent, stool is not formed, there are diarrhea or constipation problems, there is mucus-like fecal discharge, there is mixed bloody stool, there is tenesmus and other symptoms, which is the signal of intestinal disease, such as chronic enteritis, ulcerative enteritis, bowel cancer, etc., may cause similar symptoms to appear, patients should be vigilant, and timely seek medical attention for relevant screening.