Five days without a bowel movement and no bowel movement, what’s going on?

Five days without bowel movement and no bowel movement may be related to too little food, postoperative recovery, constipation and other reasons.
1. Eating too little: due to the amount of daily food is too small, resulting in digestion, absorption and metabolism of the patient almost no production of stools, there may be five days without defecation and no bowel movement.
2. Post-operative recovery: due to some surgical patients need to empty the stomach and intestines with enema in advance, and they can not eat normally for a period of time after surgery, there is not enough food in the stomach for digestion and metabolism, so there may be no bowel movement for five days without bowel movement symptoms.
3. Constipation: Since patients with constipation often have difficulty in defecation and have fewer bowel movements, it is normal to have no bowel movement for five days.
Five days without bowel movement and no intention of bowel movement may also have other reasons, it is recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner, improve the examination to clarify the cause of the disease, under the guidance of the doctor to give targeted treatment or treatment.