The possible reasons for not having a bowel movement for half a month include gastrointestinal insufficiency, underfeeding, and intestinal obstruction diseases. According to the causes, medication, dietary adjustment, enema treatment, surgery and so on are taken.
1. Insufficient gastrointestinal power: Insufficient gastrointestinal power often affects normal digestion, leading to food accumulation and constipation. Domperidone tablets, mosapride and other drugs to promote gastrointestinal power can be taken.
2. Eating too little: The food you eat is mainly fat and starchy food, and when the amount of food you eat decreases, the amount of food residue will also become less, so the amount of stool will be less. Three meals a day is recommended to increase the amount of food, to ensure that the body needs nutrition. You can drink honey water appropriately, honey has the effect of lubricating the intestinal tract, you can also eat more food with high fiber content, such as bananas, spinach and so on.
3. Intestinal obstruction: most of them are caused by dry fecal matter, the narrow intestinal tract can only make the gas pass through, and fecal matter is blocked, and the phenomenon of not defecating occurs. It is recommended to take enema laxative and other internal medical treatment, if the condition is not relieved or aggravated, timely surgical treatment should be carried out, commonly used surgical intestinal anastomosis, intestinal resection, intestinal exenteration and so on.
Half a month without defecation, there may be other conditions, you can go to the hospital to improve the relevant examination to clarify the situation and take appropriate measures.