Elderly people may have hard stools like stones due to dietary factors, too long a period of no bowel movement, slow bowel movement and other reasons, which need to be specifically analyzed.
1. Dietary factors: if you drink too little water or dietary fiber content is too low, it will cause too little water in the stool, thus appearing in the stool hard as a stone symptoms.
2. No bowel movement for too long: if the elderly because of mobility or hemorrhoids and other factors lead to no bowel movement for too long, it will lead to the water in the stool by the intestinal tract continued to be absorbed, the phenomenon of hard stools like stone.
3. Slow intestinal peristalsis: the elderly muscle tone decreases, smooth muscle peristalsis is more sluggish, it will make the food in the intestinal tract stays too long, less water, the situation of hard stools.
When the elderly continue to have hard stools like stones, there may be other reasons, you should go to the hospital in a timely manner, to clarify the cause of the disease, and take certain methods of intervention.