Laxatives should be eaten after meals is better, bad habits, long-term eating stimulating food, will lead to gastrointestinal tract peristalsis slows down, thus causing constipation, so you can orally slow diarrhea type of drugs to help defecate. When taking medication, you can choose to take half an hour or so after meals, because the medicine has three poisons, such as often taking medication, will cause a certain amount of stimulation of the gastrointestinal tract, will cause gastric discomfort, gastric acid secretion and other gastric symptoms, take laxatives after meals, the stimulation of the stomach is relatively small, can reduce the performance of gastric discomfort. During the laxative period, you should pay attention to avoid eating food that stimulates the stomach, such as spicy cold food, drink warm water during the medication period, which can make the medication quickly digested. During the use of medication, the body appears any uncomfortable symptoms, you should stop taking the drug, go to the hospital in time for examination or according to the doctor’s instructions.