Constipation is a common and complex clinical symptom rather than a disease, mainly referring to reduced frequency of bowel movements, reduced stool volume, dry stool, and straining to defecate. Symptomatic constipation can be diagnosed when two or more of the above symptoms are present at the same time. Normal people generally have at least 3 bowel movements per week, with an average stool volume of 35 to 200g and a stool water content of 60% to 80%. Combined with the nature of the stool, my usual defecation habits and the presence of difficulty in defecation to make a judgment on the presence of constipation. A medical history of more than 6 months is considered chronic constipation.
The most important cause of constipation is slow peristalsis of the colon. There are many other factors that aggravate the progression of constipation. Such as: muscle tension and compression around the anus, it is difficult to produce stool, so that stool stays in the intestine for a long time; emotional tension, depression, resulting in neurological disorders; long-term or frequent use of Valium, antidepressants and other drugs, inhibiting intestinal peristalsis; lack of water in the body, resulting in dry stool, not easy to discharge; diet is too fine, lack of fiber-rich food, especially the lack of coarse grains and fruits; sedentary, stooped work, and The amount of exercise is reduced.
As the pace of life accelerates and the amount of exercise decreases, the incidence of constipation also increases year by year. Long-term accumulation of feces in the intestinal tract can easily cause a variety of uncomfortable symptoms, while the long-term stimulation of toxins in feces slightly increases the incidence of colon cancer. Patients with constipation take stimulant laxatives orally for a long time to laxate, and the effect decreases progressively with increasing doses of drugs, causing great pain to patients. Therefore, for slow-transmission constipation caused by decreased colonic motility, it is recommended to first perform dietary therapy and then apply drugs when necessary. The following provides some common dietary treatment methods for constipation patients, I hope it will help you.
A healthy and regular lifestyle.
1, sitting at regular intervals, do not stay up late.
2, adhere to exercise, jogging or brisk walking, more than 30-40 minutes a day, adhere to more than 5 days a week.
3. Develop the habit of regular bowel movement: morning or after meals can be. You can also choose the time according to your own situation.
4. Drink the right amount of water. Advocate to drink 300 ml of warm water with light salt on an empty stomach in the early morning, and drink more than 1500 ml of water daily.
5, high fiber diet and fruit, avoid drinking alcohol, strong tea, coffee, avoid eating chili and other irritating food.
Second, a reasonable diet is the cure for constipation.
1, eat more fiber-rich beans and potatoes, fresh vegetables and fruits. Such as: soybeans, green beans, red beans, sweet potatoes, potatoes, celery, leeks, spinach, cabbage, radish, oranges, bananas, etc.. Crude fiber can stimulate the intestinal wall to speed up intestinal peristalsis. The main food should be brown rice, wheat-based, properly filled with laxative food: kelp, silver fungus, honey, walnuts, etc., and these foods have a tonic, beauty effect, can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
2, when frying, add cooking oil in appropriate amounts to lubricate the intestines.
3, eat more food rich in vitamin B. Such as coarse grains, yeast, beans, onion heads, radish, etc.
4.Eat more various types of dry beans. Rely on the fermentation of normal bacteria in the intestine, easy to produce gas, gas stimulates the intestinal wall, thereby accelerating intestinal peristalsis.
5, eat more laxative food. Such as silver fungus, honey, bananas, etc. Appropriate fill plus gas-producing food: such as raw onion, onion, raw cucumber, raw skunk cabbage, raw radish, etc., to produce bulging intestines, in order to increase intestinal peristalsis, conducive to defecation.
6, insist on drinking some yogurt every day. Not only can promote the proliferation of beneficial lactobacilli, inhibit the colonization of harmful bacteria in the intestine. At the same time, lactobacilli have the effect of improving immunity. But the lactic acid bacteria contained in yogurt, the effect is not lasting.
Third, the common laxative small recipe.
1, boiled on two bananas, and then put on the appropriate amount of rock sugar to taste.
2, take 30-60g of raw He Shou Wu, and boil it with rice and dates.
3.Take four or five water chestnuts and boil them together with 50g of jellyfish mix.
4.Take 50g of white fungus and stew it with the right amount of rock sugar.
5.Take 50g of pine nuts and put them in the porridge to simmer when making the congee.
6.Take 50g of honey, 25g of sesame oil and 100ml of boiling water and mix them together.
In short, diet for constipation is a long-term work, the recent may not see good results, need to be appropriate with the use of some drugs. But with the establishment of a healthy lifestyle, I believe more and more people will be away from constipation.