Constipation can be described as a common clinical disease, mostly seen in middle-aged and elderly people. Formation of many reasons, such as spicy food, dietary disorders, sedentary, irregular life, fatigue and so on. More importantly, people in old age, the organs gradually decline in function, and because the elderly teeth loss, chewing is not convenient, the lack of dietary fiber intake will lead to slow peristalsis of the gastrointestinal muscles, for a long time is less constipation. As the saying goes, “To live long, intestinal often clear, to not die, intestinal dregs.” Long-term constipation, corruption and fermentation of ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, indole, amines, nitrite and other harmful substances and endotoxins produced by harmful bacteria, will be absorbed by the body into the bloodstream, distributed to the whole body. As the saying goes, “a day without defecation is equal to smoking three packs of cigarettes”. What are the hazards of constipation in the elderly? 1, affecting the physical and mental health of the elderly elderly habitual constipation, especially persistent stubborn constipation, often bring them loss of appetite, fatigue, dizziness, headache, mental depression or irritability, poor sleep, severe insomnia and other pain. Some due to a long period of time to take laxatives, making laxatives have been difficult to work, have to rely on enemas to defecate, more so that they suffer, anxiety. 2, aggravate the condition of geriatric diseases, and even bring serious consequences, such as emphysema, pulmonary heart disease, most common in the elderly, often due to constipation and cough aggravation; suffer from hypertension, atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease and other cardiovascular diseases of the elderly, often due to constipation, straining to defecate, increase abdominal pressure or straining to make the blood pressure rise suddenly, resulting in the rupture of the cerebral blood vessels and cerebral hemorrhage and other acute cerebrovascular diseases, serious cases will lead to sudden death. 3, easy to occur fecal blockage of intestinal obstruction The elderly intestinal motor function is weakened, part of the easy to occur constipation, so that the feces for a long time in the intestinal tract, resulting in the formation of “fecaliths”, if the fecaliths are too much, it can lead to the occurrence of blockage of intestinal obstruction. 4, easy to induce diverticulosis and diverticulitis in the elderly gastrointestinal smooth muscle tone is weakened, constipation, defecation is too hard, so that the pressure difference between the intestinal lumen and the abdominal wall increases, the weak parts of the intestinal wall puffed out and diverticula; and constipation is easy to cause diverticulitis. 5, constipation is the elderly susceptible to colon malignant one of the factors constipation makes the feces through the intestinal tract for a significantly longer period of time, so that the feces in a variety of malignant substances in the concentration of elevated, and prolonged contact time with the colonic mucosa. Malignant substances and colon mucosa long-term continuous contact, it is easy to malignant changes. Therefore, long-term constipation has increased the potential risk of colon malignancy in the elderly. 6, colorectal polyp bleeding and malignant transformation Suffering from colorectal polyps in the elderly, constipation is easy to lead to its bleeding, but also promote the malignant transformation of colorectal adenomatous polyps. 7, easy to cause prolapse and hemorrhoids elderly frail, pelvic muscle relaxation weakness, constipation is easy to cause the elderly rectal prolapse, that is, prolapse of the anus, but also cause hemorrhoids flare-ups and aggravation. Elderly constipation simple and easy treatment: 1, develop the habit of regular defecation 1-2 times a day regular toilet, 30 minutes after breakfast due to gastrointestinal reflexes, is the best time to defecate, but also according to the individual defecation habits of self-adjustment. If there is no intention to defecate, at first you can apply Keseru to induce defecation (10-15 days), each time you defecate for 5-10 minutes (regardless of the amount of defecation and whether there is a sense of incomplete defecation), to avoid sedentary, squatting and straining to defecate (which will exacerbate the pelvic floor dysfunction), and to establish a bowel movement of the biological clock. 2, the elderly usually should eat more food containing more fiber such as coarse flour, brown rice, corn, celery, leeks, spinach and fruits, in order to increase dietary fiber, stimulate and promote intestinal peristalsis. Sesame seeds and walnuts have laxative effect, the elderly can also be appropriate to eat a little more. 3, drink more water every day should ensure that 1500 ml of water, especially every day to form the habit of regular bowel movements, drink a cup of saline water before stool, to calm the mind, try to exclude distractions, focus your attention, deep breath, in the exhalation of gas, think of this gas down the small intestine to rectal defecation. 4, abdominal massage Lie on your back in bed, loosen the belt, bend your knees, rub your hands hot, left hand flat on the navel, right hand on the back of the left hand, to the navel as the center, clockwise direction of the rub, morning and evening for ten minutes. In addition, abdominal acupuncture point stimulation for increasing intestinal peristalsis, improve the elderly constipation is also very good. In this special for the elderly constipation patients with a group of “defecation points”, the specific points are as follows: branch groove, Qihai, Guanyuan, Tianshu. 5, appropriate participation in sports Older people should be appropriate to participate in sports, especially to abdominal muscle exercise, in order to enhance the strength of the abdominal muscles and promote intestinal peristalsis, improve defecation ability. Appropriate fast walking and jogging can also make the intestinal tube by vibration, promote intestinal peristalsis, help lift constipation. For the sick bedridden elderly, family members can give their abdominal massage, from the right upper abdomen to the left lower abdomen gently push, in order to promote its intestinal peristalsis. 6, Chinese medicine tea drink elderly constipation, kidney yang deficiency, deficiency of essence and blood mostly, constipation is often accompanied by: waist and knee weakness, dizziness, fear of cold, frequent urination at night, urinate long and so on. If you have the above symptoms, you can use the following tea to assist laxative: Angelica sinensis 10 grams, 5 grams of hyssop, 10 grams of Cistanches, 3 grams of zedoary, 2 grams of ascending hemp, 3 grams of Hovenia dulcis. In conclusion, constipation is a common disease among the elderly. Elderly people should live a regular life, consume as much dietary fiber food as possible, develop good habits, and participate in sports appropriately. For their own actual situation, choose some side effects of the treatment of constipation, can be used externally to solve the constipation, do not use the internal method of treatment, so as to avoid the side effects of drugs and trigger other lesions, resulting in adverse consequences.