“Poop at work, not at home, because then the poop takes up your work time! Assuming you take 10 minutes to poop every day, you’ll have 40 hours of paid poop time in a year, which is equivalent to 5 days of annual leave!” Recently, this post circulated on the Internet has attracted a lot of criticism, pointing out that this “paid poop” can lead to constipation. The public debate on “paid stool”, on the one hand, reflects the concern for health, and has a certain health knowledge; on the other hand, it also shows that the incidence of constipation is very high, is a problem that many people are concerned about. The newspaper’s special experts, the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated Yueyang Hospital of Integrative Medicine, chief physician Wang Zhenyi pointed out that frequent control of the bowels without defecation can cause rectal and anal defecation dysfunction, resulting in mechanical constipation, intestinal inflammation, etc.. Now into the autumn, the climate is gradually dry up, again to the period of constipation. Prevent constipation, first of all, we must change the bad habits, develop good bowel habits. Bad habits that cause constipation Constipation is a symptom, can be caused by disease, but also may be poor living and eating habits that lead to defecation dysfunction. In life, some bad habits may be the “culprit” of constipation. Bad habits of defecation Modern people’s fast-paced life, busy work, with the intention of defecation can not immediately go to defecate, often hold, as a result of the water in the stool is constantly absorbed by the intestines, feces become dry and hard, difficult to discharge, which is a common cause of constipation. In addition, in the past, many people like to defecate while reading books and newspapers, resulting in artificially prolonged defecation time, easy to have hemorrhoids, causing constipation. Suggestion: In addition to not holding stool, should also establish good bowel habits, it is best to develop the habit of defecating every morning. Because, after waking up in the morning, the intestines also have a “wake up” peristaltic time, after eating breakfast and will promote gastrointestinal motility. This time defecation will be easier. The best time for each bowel movement is 2 to 3 minutes, not more than 5 minutes, if you can not discharge until the next time you have the intention to defecate. The elderly and patients with cardiovascular disease should not use too much force when they have difficulty in defecating, so as not to raise their blood pressure and become dangerous. You can use some mild laxatives without long-term side effects, or defecate after a while. Bad dietary habits Picky eating, too fine diet, like big fish and meat but less vegetables and fruits, drink less water, these bad eating habits, may cause constipation. Food is too fine, the lack of dietary fiber, can not well stimulate intestinal peristalsis, will make the stool in the intestinal tract to prolong the marching time, the discharge time is delayed, resulting in constipation, in addition, usually like to drink strong tea, coffee, eat more coquille, grapes, yam, rice kernel people are also prone to cause dry stool. Suggestion: prevent constipation usually drink more water, eat more vegetables and fruits, food should also be coarse and fine with. Especially after the autumn climate will become increasingly dry, in order to prevent “dry constipation”, should drink more water, eat juicy fruit, appropriate consumption of nuts and other fat-rich laxative food. Bad habits of life sedentary, lack of exercise, is also one of the factors of constipation in modern people. Sitting often, the functional activities of the tissues and organs in the body will slow down, intestinal peristalsis will also become slow, easy to cause constipation. Suggestions: appropriate exercise is indispensable, constipation patients can also be in the meal after the abdomen, to promote intestinal peristalsis, help defecation. But for a class of patients with bowel movements and often feel in the anal opening can not be completely clean, it is not recommended to run, take long walks, dance, weight lifting and other exercises, so as not to aggravate constipation. Lifestyle cannot cure all constipation There are many causes of constipation, both functional and organic, and relying on lifestyle to “treat” constipation will not solve all constipation problems. Some patients do not take constipation seriously, thinking that dietary modifications or laxative drugs can solve the problem. Director Wang reminded that some constipation, especially chronic constipation to be vigilant, by improving lifestyle and adjusting the diet can not be solved, and not arbitrarily choose some such as rhubarb, aloe vera, senna and other laxatives, long-term use often leads to the occurrence of large intestinal melanosis, and excessive reliance on laxative drugs, may be their own normal bowel function completely destroyed, so if the constipation after life conditioning still can not improve Therefore, if constipation does not improve after life modification, you should go to the hospital in time to identify the cause of constipation. Constipation caused by hemorrhoids, intestinal obstruction, tumors and other organic diseases, must be treated for the cause, lifestyle and laxative drugs can not solve the fundamental problem, may also cause adverse consequences.