Many people who are constipated do not care much about why they are constipated and use corkage or laxatives to solve the problem when it strikes, but afterwards they often remain the same and become constipated on a regular basis. Most people, I’m afraid, don’t know why constipation always occurs in a specific group of people, and don’t know how to completely solve this problem. In fact, to completely improve constipation, I’m afraid we need to start by changing our lifestyle habits, so let’s first understand why you are constipated, and then we will know how to relieve constipation.
Causes
1, diet
Nowadays, people’s diet is too fine, there is almost no residue after food digestion, if you do not eat vegetables and other high-fiber food, this situation will lead to the colon can not form enough volume of feces, it is difficult to produce stool every day. Some women who love beauty eat less is also the cause of constipation, eating too little can not form enough volume of feces to induce bowel movements.
If the stool cannot be excreted every day, the longer it stays in the body and becomes dry and hard, the more difficult it is to excrete. Therefore, the countermeasure is to encourage constipation patients to eat more fiber-containing food, while ensuring that the daily water intake is sufficient, because fiber is not digested, but can absorb water like a sponge to expand, so that the stool will not be too dry, maintaining sufficient volume to stimulate the intestinal tract to produce stool.
2, do not like to exercise, drink enough water
For example, sitting in an office is a day or because of playing mahjong a sitting night, insufficient water, too little activity is a feature of these people. Too little movement will make the colon peristalsis reduced, feces in the intestines stay too long, too much water absorption feces become dry and hard, the volume becomes smaller difficult to discharge. In addition, because the water supplement less intestines will absorb more water in the stool, making the stool dry and hard.
3.Ageing
Constipation is more common in the elderly, mainly related to age, coupled with reduced activity in the elderly, more prone to constipation. For the elderly constipation medication needs to pay attention to: laxatives can be preferred volumetric laxatives and osmotic laxatives, for patients with severe constipation, can also be short-term moderate application of stimulant laxatives, but do not rely on stimulant laxatives, otherwise it will be used more and more to no medicine available.
4, other causes
(1) emotional or dysbiosis: due to work tension, mental factors, such as disrupting the normal bowel habits, such as irritable bowel syndrome constipation type, the functional state of the intestinal tract is affected by mental factors or dysbiosis, by this cause of constipation is more often seen in young women.
(2) Drug-dependent constipation: abuse of stimulant laxatives, the formation of drug dependence caused by stubborn constipation. Why we do not recommend the general use of laxatives to relieve constipation because laxatives are also divided into many kinds, can not be used casually, although the use of stimulant laxatives have an immediate effect, but if long-term use will lead to laxative dependence, until later with a very large number of laxatives also do not respond, it will be very painful and tricky.
(3) intestinal abnormalities: such as congenital megacolon, colonic redundancy, etc. This is mainly due to developmental defects, making the intestine lack of sensory and produce stool nerve receptors, the loss of normal people defecate to empty the intestinal regulation function, is the organic constipation.
Then how to solve constipation
The above summarizes the common causes of constipation, from the causes of constipation occurrence to introduce several key points in the treatment of constipation is summarized as follows.
1, morning + breakfast: people are born with two defecation “natural time”: one is the morning wake up the “riser reflex”; the other is after eating the “stomach – colon reflex “. In the morning, when you get up, from lying to sitting to standing, intestinal peristalsis will increase, and the intestines will produce a huge peristaltic wave, helping you to push out the stool. After breakfast, the gastrocolic reflex is obvious (the stomach informs the colon to move quickly), creating another bowel movement “time of day”. So wake up the natural defecation reflex to improve constipation has a multiplier effect.
2, exercise: exercise delicious needless to say, for the improvement of constipation is also beneficial, exercise can increase intestinal peristalsis, hospital patients after gastrointestinal surgery doctors also encourage patients to get out of bed as soon as possible, the purpose is to promote intestinal motility recovery.
3, eat more fruits and vegetables: this is well understood, eat more crude fiber, vegetables, fruits and other foods rich in fiber, need to account for a certain proportion to play a laxative effect, while supplementing sufficient water. Do a good diet structure to diversify, coarse and fine grains mixed, meat and vegetables with.
4, the habit of regular defecation, do not hold: to develop good defecation habits, such as morning defecation, avoid playing cell phones and reading newspapers while defecating. In addition, don’t hold it when you have a bowel movement, if you deliberately hold it back when the bowel movement comes, this will also lead to the fading of the bowel movement in the long term, resulting in functional constipation, so people prone to constipation should avoid holding back the bowel movement.
5, laxatives: recommended polyethylene glycol, lactulose and other such laxatives, safer to use, is not absorbed sugar electrolyte mixture, such laxatives play a mild laxative effect, the effect is slow, the principle is to soften the stool, so that it is easy to discharge, can be used for a long time, does not produce resistance. Avoid frequent use of stimulant laxatives.
6, other: for long-term chronic constipation, fecal impaction may occur, should first remove the embedded stool and then comprehensive treatment; should try to stop using the drugs that cause constipation, pay attention to change the lifestyle.
Functional constipation is caused by disorder of bowel function, which can be changed and relieved by adjusting living habits. Organic constipation refers to constipation caused by organic diseases, such as a tumor in the colon, blocking most of the intestinal cavity, feces can not pass, and how to eat more vegetables, but still constipation, to remove the cause of organic lesions to relieve constipation symptoms. Generally speaking, most people’s constipation is functional constipation, but patients who do not poop once in half a month should be alert to whether it is organic constipation, it is best to go to the hospital for help.
Principles of constipation treatment
The goal of constipation treatment is to relieve symptoms and restore normal intestinal dynamics and physiological functions of defecation. The general principle is individualized comprehensive treatment, including the recommendation of a reasonable dietary structure, the establishment of correct defecation habits, adjusting the mental and psychological state; for those who have a clear cause to carry out etiological treatment; long-term application of laxative maintenance treatment, should avoid the abuse of laxatives.