Eating apples can improve functional constipation, not cure it. Eating apples has no effect on organic constipation.
For functional constipation, it is necessary to change living and dietary habits, including increasing dietary fiber, drinking more water, having regular bowel movements, exercising more, and avoiding the abuse of laxatives. Dietary fiber is hydrophilic and can absorb water from the intestinal lumen, increase fecal capacity, stimulate bowel movement and promote defecation. Vegetables and fruits are rich in dietary fiber, so apples can improve functional constipation.
Organic constipation causative factors are congenital megacolon, intestinal tuberculosis, hypothyroidism, rheumatic immune diseases, diabetes mellitus, etc., the treatment should be based on the cause of the treatment, and can be temporarily used laxatives to relieve the symptoms of constipation. Apples have no significant effect on this type of constipation.
If constipation is diagnosed, early standardized treatment is recommended to reduce the adverse effects of the disease.