Constipation during cirrhosis treatment is mainly related to the patient’s condition and diet.
1. Patients’ own condition: patients with liver cirrhosis have poor physical condition, impaired liver function, decreased detoxification ability of liver, weakened digestive function, slowed down intestinal peristalsis, and even there may be intestinal edema and siltation, so that feces are retained in the intestinal lumen, the water is absorbed, and it becomes hard and dry, difficult to discharge, and then constipation is formed.
2. patient’s diet: cirrhosis patients can’t eat too hard, not easy to digest and fiber food food, the above situation may cause constipation; and cirrhosis patients due to ascites, long-term abdominal distension leads to loss of appetite, eat less, will also induce constipation occurs.
If the symptoms of constipation are not relieved for a long time or accompanied by other symptoms, you should go to the hospital in time for targeted treatment under the guidance of the doctor.