Many people who are constipated do not care much about why they are constipated, and when they have an attack, they solve it with a cork or laxative, but afterwards they are often the same and constipation occurs regularly. Most people are afraid that they do not know why constipation always occurs in a specific group of people, and do not know how to completely solve this problem (here we are talking about functional constipation, and constipation caused by organic pathology is another story). In fact, to completely improve constipation, we need to change our habits, so let’s first understand why constipation happens to you, and then we will know how to relieve it. In fact, the production of bowel movement and defecation is a very complex, multi-linked process, which is affected by diet, exercise, emotions, neuromuscular and other aspects, so I am afraid that it is not enough to rely on drugs as a single link to solve the problem. I am afraid that medication alone is not enough. The process of functional constipation is gradual. Initially, it may occur when you do not have the urge to go to the toilet once a day, but later, due to changes in lifestyle or other reasons, you do not have the urge to go to the toilet every day, but only once every few days, and then your body adapts to it over time, as if it has formed a habit. Therefore, I am afraid that most of the friends who are troubled by constipation would like to have the most. If you don’t eat vegetables and other high-fiber foods, you will not be able to form enough volume of stool in your colon and it will be difficult to produce stool every day. Some young women suffer from constipation because they do not eat enough to produce enough stool to trigger a bowel movement. If the stool is not passed every day and remains in the body for too long and becomes dry and hard, the longer the stool is passed, the more difficult it becomes. Therefore, the countermeasure is to encourage constipation patients to eat more fiber-containing foods and to drink enough water daily, because fiber is not digested and absorbed by the body, but it can absorb water and expand like a sponge, maintaining enough volume to stimulate the intestines to produce bowel movements. Do not like to exercise, drink enough water, such as sitting in the office all day or sitting all night because of mahjong, insufficient water, too little activity is a feature of these people. Too little exercise will make the colon peristalsis decrease, on the contrary, increased exercise will promote intestinal peristalsis. In addition, because of the low water supplement intestines will supplement the absorption of more water in the stool, making the stool dry and hard. When fiber is added to the diet, it must be supplemented with enough water so that the fiber can absorb water and swell so that the stool does not become too dry. Constipation is more common in the elderly, mainly due to age, and the reduced activity of the elderly makes it more likely to occur. 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 must not rely on stimulant laxatives, otherwise will be used more and more to no medicine, please consult a specialist. Other causes: emotional or dysbiosis: due to work tension, mental factors, etc. disrupt the normal bowel habits, such as in the 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. Drug-dependent constipation: abuse of stimulant laxatives, forming drug dependence resulting in stubborn constipation. Why we do not recommend the general use of laxatives to relieve constipation is 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, will be very painful and tricky. Intestinal abnormalities: such as congenital megacolon, colonic redundancy, etc. This is mainly due to developmental defects, so that the lack of nerve receptors in the intestine to feel and produce bowel movement, the loss of normal people defecate to empty the intestinal regulation function, is the organic constipation.