How soon a patient with intestinal obstruction dies cannot be generalized and is related to the cause of the intestinal obstruction and the severity of the patient’s condition.
Intestinal obstruction is a relatively common type of clinical disease, mostly due to abdominal inflammation, postoperative intestinal adhesions, intestinal tumors and other diseases. For incomplete simple adhesive intestinal obstruction, patients with mild symptoms can usually be cured through conservative treatment such as water fasting, gastrointestinal decompression, enema or intestinal adhesion release surgery, and the survival time of patients is basically no different from that of normal people. If the intestinal obstruction is caused by malignant tumor of the intestine, the patient has metastasis in multiple places of the body at the same time, and even affects the function of important organs such as heart, lung, liver and kidney, the survival time of the patient is usually shorter, and he may even die within a short time.
Patients with poor bowel function, difficulty in defecation and those who have undergone intra-abdominal surgery are advised to eat more vegetables, fruits and other foods containing more fiber and walk appropriately to promote intestinal peristalsis.