What’s wrong with being constipated?

Frequent constipation is usually seen in organic constipation and functional constipation. 1. Organic constipation: Organic diseases in the intestines, such as large polyps, intestinal tumors, inflammatory bowel disease, may cause constipation. It is recommended to carry out colonoscopy and routine stool examination, if colonoscopy found problems need timely treatment. 2. Functional constipation: (1) Intestinal flora imbalance: when the number of harmful flora exceeds the number of beneficial bacteria, intestinal dysfunction occurs, leading to constipation. Probiotics and drugs to promote gastrointestinal tract power can be applied to assist in the treatment. (2) Insufficient intake of dietary fiber: dietary habits like to eat too fine, spicy, greasy food easily lead to constipation. Improve dietary habits, eat more coarse fiber grains and fruits and vegetables, is conducive to intestinal peristalsis, defecation. (3) too little exercise: little exercise, especially after meals, sedentary, almost no exercise. Prolonged sitting not only affects digestion, but also reduces intestinal peristalsis, fecal excretion will also be hindered, prone to constipation. Adequate exercise can enhance gastrointestinal power, accelerate food digestion, absorption, and then promote intestinal peristalsis, accelerate fecal discharge. Frequent constipation, to take the above measures do not relieve, it is recommended to improve the timely medical examination, by the specialist doctor to determine the specific causes, targeted treatment.