Usually, the bowel movement in the middle of the night is due to physiological reasons, irritable bowel syndrome, intestinal polyps and so on.
1. Physiological reasons: may be due to too much food before going to sleep, accelerating the peristalsis of the human gastrointestinal tract, resulting in food digestion, defecation phenomenon in the middle of the night, usually do not need to intervene too much, can be appropriate to reduce the amount of food before going to sleep to improve.
2. Irritable bowel syndrome: irritable bowel syndrome patients due to gastrointestinal tract dysfunction, may lead to changes in bowel habits, so there will be the phenomenon of midnight defecation, and usually accompanied by lower abdominal pain symptoms, generally can follow the doctor’s orders to use lactobacillus, bacillus subtilis, clostridium casei and so on to alleviate the symptoms.
3. Intestinal polyps: intestinal polyps patients due to the intestinal mucosa of the surface layer of the protruding heterogeneous tissue, may lead to changes in bowel habits, usually increase the number of bowel movements, and more often accompanied by abdominal pain, and therefore may appear in the middle of the night defecation, generally through endoscopic treatment.
Excluding physiological factors, if the symptoms continue to be unrelieved, it is recommended to consult a doctor in time, under the guidance of the doctor to clarify the cause of the disease and targeted treatment.