How is your recent bowel movement? “Are your bowels still healthy?

“Eating” and “pooping” are equivalent to the “import” and “export” of our body. The balance between the two is crucial. We should not only be concerned about “how well you have eaten recently”, but also about “how well you have defecated recently”. Under normal circumstances, when stool enters the rectum, accumulates in sufficient quantity and exerts a certain pressure on the intestinal wall, it will cause a defecation reflex, and then we will have a “bowel movement”. Stool urge. It is the prelude to the start of our bowel movement. In clinical practice, many constipated patients are missing this prelude. The most serious patient once had no bowel movement for 3 months in a row. The reason for this is that, first of all, the pace of life is accelerating, so busy that you can not even care about eating, let alone go to the stool. Often, even when the urge to stool is present, it is often artificially suppressed. In the long run, the desire to stool will gradually weaken, or even disappear. “Therefore, the modern people work and study again stressful. Also have to make time for bowel movements.” The second is the change in the structure of the diet. In modern society, food is often refined, digested and absorbed, food residues are reduced, it is difficult to form an effective stimulus to intestinal peristalsis, which will also make the stool “quietly slip away”. The two tactics of perfect bowel movement 1, master the two reflexes. Choose the right time to defecate our body has two very important natural reflexes that can help us find the desire to defecate and resume normal bowel habits. ① is the “gastrocolonic reflex”. When you have eaten enough, you often feel the urge to defecate. This is because food takes up space in the abdominal cavity and stimulates intestinal peristalsis, releasing the corresponding space through exhaustion and defecation. ② is the “upright reflex”. When the body changes from “lying” to “standing” after waking up in the morning, the stomach will squeeze the transverse colon under the action of gravity. This stimulates peristaltic movement of the colon, which in turn produces the urge to defecate. Therefore, there are several time periods for people who have difficulty in defecating, one is in the morning after waking up (upright reflex). There is also the time after meals (gastrocolonic reflex). You may want to consciously develop bowel habits during these times. 2, only one good thing at a time. Many people have the bad habit of reading a book while defecating. In fact, defecation is a highly coordinated physiological activity, each defecation, the body needs to mobilize about 300 muscles involved. One mind cannot be used twice, when the attention is distracted by the content of books and newspapers. How can the brain still coordinate these hundreds of small muscles? Over time, the body’s control of bowel-related muscles is weakened, so constipation stalks the body. Therefore, it is important to establish the concept that defecation is also a major life event, which also requires focused attention to complete, do not use reading newspapers and listening to music to divide the precious 10 minutes a day. At the same time, each defecation time should not be too long, more than 5 minutes still no stool discharge can first give up, take a break and then continue, do not “empty toilet”. Choose the right urinal good defecation “work to be good at what it does, must first benefit from its tools.” Potty as the most important tool for stool, the role should not be underestimated. The use of squatting commode will make the two aforementioned reflexes come more strongly to further stimulate colonic motility and promote defecation. Plus squatting is not as comfortable as sitting, squatting stool often little reading and reading newspapers, but easier to focus on defecation. Therefore, the squatting commode is more beneficial to defecation than the bidet. Consider the needs of the elderly. Can be installed in the squatting toilet next to the handrail.