If you want to improve stubborn constipation by promoting bowel movement, you can do moderate exercise, use stimulating or osmotic laxatives, and pro-dynamic drugs.
1. moderate exercise: moderate exercise can improve intestinal motility, so that food debris easier to pass, reduce the occurrence of constipation, especially for the bedridden, less exercise in the elderly more beneficial.
2. Stimulating or osmotic laxatives: stimulating laxatives will act on the intestinal nerves, enhance intestinal motility and stimulate intestinal secretion, commonly used drugs such as bisacodyl; stimulating laxatives can form a hypertonic state in the intestines, absorbing water, increasing the volume of feces, stimulating intestinal peristalsis, commonly used drugs such as lactulose.
3. Pro-dynamic drugs: these drugs can act on the intestinal nerve endings, regulate neurotransmitters or directly act on smooth muscle to increase intestinal power. Commonly used drugs are mosapride, etc. However, this drug is prohibited in intestinal perforation, intestinal obstruction, inflammatory bowel disease, toxic megacolon and those who have recently undergone intestinal surgery.
Therefore, if there is persistent constipation, the general change of lifestyle habits is ineffective in the treatment of the disease, but this is still the basis of treatment, but there are many causes of constipation, it is still necessary to consult a doctor in a timely manner, under the guidance of a physician to use medication, improve the relevant examination, to exclude organic factors, the treatment of the cause, in order to avoid delaying the condition.