What’s wrong with hard stools?

Stools that are not particularly hard are usually due to dietary factors, weakened gastrointestinal motility, severe hemorrhoids, intestinal obstruction and so on. 1. Dietary factors: for example, eating too much spicy and stimulating food or dry and hard food, lack of crude fiber food, drinking too little water, etc., will result in dry and hard stools, difficult bowel movements. 2. Gastrointestinal peristalsis is weakened: for example, irritable bowel syndrome, gastroenteritis, drug abuse, etc., can affect the normal peristaltic function of the intestinal tract, so that the gastrointestinal peristalsis is weakened, resulting in the body of persistent stools for a long time, can not be discharged feces out of the body, which will result in the stools can not be out of the situation of particularly hard. 3. severe hemorrhoids: when the symptoms of hemorrhoids are very serious, the meatball convex in the anal opening, the formation of obstacles to the excretion of stool, resulting in patients with defecation difficulties, the performance of dry stools. 4. Intestinal obstruction: especially some low intestinal obstruction or incomplete intestinal obstruction, will lead to long-term retention of stool in the intestinal lumen, and the water in the feces will be absorbed continuously, which can cause stool dryness, resulting in the stool can not be pulled out, especially hard situation. When the stool is hard, it is recommended to consult a doctor in time and follow the doctor’s instructions for targeted treatment.