Do patients with intestinal obstruction have bowel movements?

Patients with intestinal obstruction will have poop in some cases. Although the typical symptoms of intestinal obstruction are pain, distension, vomiting and closure, i.e. abdominal pain, abdominal distension, nausea and vomiting with anal stoppage of exhaustion and defecation, etc., patients with intestinal obstruction will have poop in the following cases: 1. The location of the patient’s intestinal obstruction is high, and the normal peristaltic excretion of the intestinal tube below the obstruction site, etc., will cause poop discharge, etc. 2. As the stool accumulated in the intestinal canal is stimulated by enemas and so on, the intestinal canal below the site of intestinal obstruction starts to peristaltic movement, and the accumulated stool in the intestinal canal is eliminated, etc., so there will be defecation. 3. Patients with intestinal obstruction undergo active treatment, indicating that the condition has been relieved, so there will be defecation. Therefore, patients with intestinal obstruction will have defecation, but it does not mean that defecation indicates remission or healing, it needs to be combined with further examination, including abdominal plain film, abdominal CT and clinical symptoms of patients, etc. for comprehensive assessment.