Excessive bowel movements at night may be related to physiologic factors such as excessive food intake, as well as diseases such as indigestion and irritable bowel syndrome.
1. Physiological reasons: when consuming too much food at night, eating too cold or too hot and other stimulating foods, etc., may stimulate intestinal peristalsis, causing excessive bowel movements.
2. Pathologic causes:
(1) Dyspepsia: If you usually overeat or eat too much food at one time, as well as consume too greasy and indigestible food, dyspepsia is easy to occur, and the typical symptoms show that it is fullness and dull pain in the abdomen after meals, accompanied by nausea, belching and diarrhea, especially after getting cold in the evening, its symptoms will be more obvious, so that the phenomenon of having more stools in the evening occurs.
(2) Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS): it is a kind of functional bowel disease, the cause of which is considered to be related to intestinal infections, intestinal micro-ecological imbalance and psychosomatic disorders, and the typical symptoms are abdominal pain, diarrhea and constipation, and its diarrhea is about 3-5 times a day, so the phenomenon of having more bowel movements at night can occur.
When frequent nighttime bowel movements occur, the cause can be clarified under the guidance of a doctor so that it can be actively treated.