There are many people who think that constipation is just a minor problem that has nothing to do with it. Therefore, even if you suffer from constipation, you always feel no need to seek medical advice. In fact, constipation has a great danger to human health. The human body through the digestive system every day to take in a large amount of food, water and other nutrients, through a complex conversion process into the body’s growth activities required components, while excreting metabolic waste and harmful substances. There are a lot of food residues in the stool, more than 50% of which are bacteria. If they are kept in the body for a long time and cannot be excreted, they will produce a lot of harmful gases and toxins, which will be reabsorbed into the liver, brain, kidneys and other important organs through the colonic mucosa, which is extremely harmful to the human body! Constipation, as the most common dysfunction of the digestive system, is not immediately life-threatening, and the use of laxatives or enemas can quickly get through, which directly leads to constipation has long been belittled by society and the medical profession, and is the root cause of the danger of constipation. A, the harm to the digestive system 1, gastrointestinal nerve disorders: constipation patients, due to fecal retention, harmful substances acting directly on the intestine, as well as absorption into the blood can cause gastrointestinal nerve disorders, resulting in loss of appetite, abdominal distension, belching, bitter mouth and other performance. If the intestinal bacteria increase the decomposition of proteins, produce too much gas, can trigger or aggravate various acute abdominal diseases, such as perforation, appendicitis, intestinal obstruction, etc.. 2, diarrhea: constipation, because the fecal block embedded in the rectal cavity difficult to discharge, but a small amount of watery fecal matter can bypass the fecal block from the anus during defecation, the ancestral medicine called “heat knot side flow”. If you can not recognize the root cause is constipation, but according to the treatment of diarrhea, can aggravate the development of the disease. 3, abdominal pain: constipation caused by abdominal pain in children is more common. Abdominal pain is irregular, paroxysmal and recurrent, each attack lasts for several minutes to dozens of minutes, the pain site is not fixed, can be located around the umbilicus, the whole abdomen, the nature of pain varies in severity, intermittent no abnormal performance. The cause is not clear, may be a large number of hard fecal mass accumulation in the rectum, stimulating the intestinal wall receptors, causing strong reflex contraction of intestinal muscles, and paroxysmal abdominal pain, intermittent intestinal wall muscle relaxation, abdominal pain relief. 4, anorectal diseases: constipation symptoms such as difficult defecation, dry stool, unpleasant stool can trigger or aggravate anorectal diseases, such as anal fissure, perianal abscess, hemorrhoids, traumatic proctitis, etc.. Constipated patients can suffer from acute anal fissures due to dry stools, huge fecal masses, and defecation efforts, which can directly lead to tearing of the skin of the anal canal, and periodic constipation and pain are the main features of anal fissures. Dry stool, repeated use of laxatives, easy to damage the anal sinus, anal gland tissue, produce anal fossa infection, and then develop into perianal abscess, anal fistula. 5, malignant tumors: there are many “bad bacteria” in the intestinal tract, such as Wells bacteria can decompose part of the food residue, producing carcinogenic substances such as nitrosamines and phenol, indole, etc. that promote the growth of cancer cells. For constipated patients, such harmful substances cannot be discharged effectively in time, but accumulate in the intestine in large quantities for a long time, directly acting on the intestinal mucosa and inducing intestinal tumors, and some toxins are absorbed into the blood and enter other tissues and organs, which can also induce the occurrence of tumors. According to the data, about 10% of people with severe constipation suffer from colon cancer. In the study of breast cancer, medical doctors from the University of California found that constipation is the culprit of breast cancer. Researchers found that only 5% of people with normal bowel movements had abnormal breast cell development, while up to 23% of people with constipation. The precursor symptom of breast cancer is often atypical hyperplasia of the breast and ductal epithelium, and it is this hyperplasia in the breast of constipated people. Second, the harm to the circulatory system 1, induced acute attacks of heart disease: constipation combined with cardiovascular disease patients, often due to bowel movements struggle and cause accidents. Defecation struggle, mainly to excite the parasympathetic nerve, promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and digestive gland secretion, when the sympathetic nerve is inhibited, the heartbeat slowed down and weakened, blood pressure dropped. After defecation, the sympathetic nerves are inhibited for a longer period of time, so after defecation, there is a reflex excitation of sympathetic nerves, resulting in the strengthening of cardiac excitability, accelerated heart rate, micro-artery contraction, increased blood pressure, increased coronary artery pressure, forced vasodilation, increased myocardial oxygen consumption, which can trigger an acute attack of coronary heart disease, and patients often die because of coronary artery rupture at the atheromatous plaque. In addition, it can also induce arrhythmia, heart failure, hypertensive crisis, etc. 2, induced cerebrovascular disease attack: constipation combined with cerebrovascular disease patients, often due to defecation difficulties induced cerebrovascular accidents, of which cerebral hemorrhage is the most common, the mechanism is mainly for defecation Nu earn, stool emptying, sympathetic nerve reflex excitation, micro-artery contraction, blood pressure rise, cerebrovascular atheromatous plaque rupture and cerebral hemorrhage. Third, the harm to the nervous system intestinal bacteria can be undigested protein decomposition into ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, histamine and indole and other toxic substances, if these toxic substances can not be excreted in time with the stool and remain in the intestine, will be absorbed into the blood to varying degrees through the liver for detoxification. When these toxic substances accumulate over time and exceed the detoxification capacity of the liver, more of them will reach the whole body with the blood circulation. Among them, toxic substances through the blood-brain barrier into the brain, can gradually attack the brain cells and central nervous system, and the intellectual decline, memory loss, distraction, slow thinking, etc., and can even induce dementia. Fourth, the harm to the skin of patients with constipation, a large number of toxins are absorbed, after the liver detoxification, need to be discharged from the urinary system and skin sweat gland system, aggravating the accumulation of waste in the skin sweat gland system; in addition, the toxins can not be removed by the liver with the blood into the skin tissue, the direct toxic effect on it, accelerating the aging of the skin. It is common for patients to have dull, lusterless, rough and pigmented skin, acne, pigmentation and chloasma, which affect their appearance. Fifth, the harm to the genitourinary system Constipation can lead to urine loss in children, the expansion of the rectum can stimulate the bladder contraction, producing bladder irritation, repeated stimulation, can produce uncontrollable contraction, and urine loss. In patients with chronic obstinate constipation, each defecation squatting time is long, the abdominal pressure lasts long, the pressure on the pelvic floor organs is high, which directly interferes with the function of other organs in the pelvic floor, such as the prostate, uterus, etc. For male patients, it can lead to sexual dysfunction, focusing energy on the defecation process for a long time, and can also lead to loss of libido, sexual frigidity, etc. For female patients, dysmenorrhea, vaginal cramps, urinary retention, and Urinary tract infection, etc. Sixth, the mental and psychological hazards of patients with constipation, increased absorption of toxins in the body, can lead to neuroendocrine dysfunction, the stool can not be timely, regular discharge, resulting in intestinal nervous system dysfunction, and mental and emotional disorders, such as depressed mood, depression, inattention, impatience and irritability, hitting and destroying things, etc., with the course of the disease gradually aggravated, and even lead to mental retardation, anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, serious. In severe cases, there may be strong suicidal tendencies. These patients often have a low pain tolerance and a desire for surgical procedures. Psychosomatic disorders in turn can aggravate defecation difficulties, thus entering a vicious circle. Seven, endanger the harmonious development of society In March 8, 1994, the United States New York outbreak of a “toilet march”, there are 132 women citizens, each carrying a toilet, squatting in City Hall Plaza to solve the problem of constipation treatment, shocked the world. The prevalence of constipation remains high for a long time, because of the long-term lack of attention from all sides, as mentioned above, the health of patients have a variety of hazards, reducing the quality of life of patients, affecting the work of patients, increasing the economic burden on families, destroying the harmony of families, interfering with the patient-centered social groups. A large number of constipation patients do not receive reasonable diagnosis and treatment, which directly hinders the harmonious development of society. Constipation has become a social problem. For constipation, there is still a lot of debate in the medical community, and its diagnosis and treatment have not yet been unified, many doctors even believe that it is not a disease, but a simple symptom of difficult defecation, while the general public’s understanding of it is even more blank. According to the most authoritative diagnosis and treatment guidelines, a diagnosis of constipation requires the completion of several tests, and few patients can insist on completing all the tests, and many patients, after spending a lot of time and money to complete some of the tests, are told that they are not “sick”, but the symptoms of difficult defecation persist for a long time and affect their life and work. Some patients are arbitrarily diagnosed and treated accordingly after a single examination, with the result that some patients have a brief relief of constipation, while others even have no significant change. The above situation directly aggravates the economic and psychological burden of patients, and at the same time makes them fall into a deep confusion, which is also one of the root causes of family and social conflicts. In summary, the family is the basic unit of society, and the negative impact of a large number of patients with constipation on families and medical workers ultimately jeopardizes the harmonious development of society.