The world is a big place, and there is nothing strange about it. Some time ago, the British “Daily Mail” reported a “shocking” news, the British Cornwall, a 16-year-old girl Tisser Linden, died because of 60 days without bowel movement. According to the report, the cause of the girl’s death was initially chronic constipation, and the intestines were severely dilated due to lack of movement, causing the chest cavity and organs to shift and triggering cardiac arrest. The number of constipated people in our country is rising every year. Constipation can kill! The problem of daily “convenience” has to attract everyone’s attention. Constipation is a phenomenon in which feces remain in the intestinal cavity for too long and a large amount of water is absorbed by the intestinal wall, resulting in dry, hard feces that are not easy to detoxify. It is a symptom that is not fatal in itself, but left untreated for a long time can lead to other complications. According to epidemiological data, the incidence of constipation is related to age, geography, occupation, gender, culture and other factors. According to recent years, the Chinese Journal of Clinical Health published in the “Chronic Constipation Epidemiology Research Progress” article, chronic constipation and regional, age, gender, lifestyle and dietary habits of the relationship: 1, regional distribution: the United States incidence rate of 2% – 28%; Canada 14.9% – 16.7%; China 3% – 17%. In China, the incidence rate of the population in northern cities is greater than that in southern cities. In northern cities: Beijing 20.3%, Xi’an 12.9%, Shenyang 18.5%; in southern cities: Shanghai 7%, Guangzhou 9%, Chengdu 10.4%. In the same region, there are also differences between urban and rural areas: Beijing: 23% in rural areas and 18.2% in urban areas. 2, age distribution: a survey in the United States shows that the prevalence of chronic constipation will increase with age. Zheng Songbai in the “geriatrics and health care” published in the article “pay attention to the harm of chronic functional constipation in the elderly” in this study, the prevalence of constipation with the increase in age and increase, especially in the age of 70 years old, the increase in the prevalence rate is more obvious. 50 years old before the prevalence rate of 2.6% to 28.4%, 70 years old after the 7.7% to 42.8%. 3, gender distribution: most epidemiological surveys show that chronic constipation and gender have certain links, women are high-risk groups. In the United States, women suffering from chronic constipation up to 16%, 12% of men; and in Beijing, adult male and female prevalence of 1:4.59; Guangzhou, the male and female prevalence of 1:1.77. Social aging makes the number of constipation more and more, on the whole, men are less likely to be constipated than women, and many women, especially young women, in order to pursue the beauty of the slimming, blindly taking detoxification drugs, these drugs will make the intestinal tract produce a lot of pain. These drugs can cause black lesions in the intestines and damage the mucosa of the inner wall of the large intestine; and women secrete a lot of progesterone during pregnancy, which inhibits intestinal peristalsis and affects intestinal motility; during labor, women who give birth naturally may cause damage to the pelvic floor muscles and pelvic floor nerves due to excessive exertion, which affects the function of defecation. These are all factors that make women more likely to be constipated than men. Why do you get constipated? 1.Dietary habits are an important cause of constipation. Eating irrationally, should eat did not eat, should not eat more eat is the key factor. Fried, puffed food should be eaten less, “now children suffer from constipation a lot, is because there is usually no reasonable diet, now the food is too fine but not conducive to health, should eat more fruits and vegetables.” Others think that eating less can relieve the symptoms of constipation, in fact, not. If the food intake is too small, the feces produced can not produce enough stimulation of defecation, much less the urge to poop. So we still need to pay more attention to diet, more dietary fiber intake to effectively relieve symptoms. 2, there are some habits can also cause constipation. Human defecation is also a biological clock, if the biological clock is disrupted, it is likely to cause constipation. “Some people love to stay up late, biological clock disruption, some people sit all day, lack of exercise, will cause constipation, and people like to wear tight clothes, inhibit the abdominal sympathetic nerve, affecting the bowel movement, but also the cause of constipation.” 3, some drugs contain ingredients will inhibit intestinal peristalsis, causing constipation. Such as the treatment of depression in the drug contains chlorpromazine, painkillers in the composition of morphine, dulcolax, diet pills in the rhubarb, senna, etc. will be taken after the intestinal tract, will inhibit intestinal peristalsis. Therefore, when taking medications, you must follow the doctor’s instructions, control the amount, and if necessary, take drugs to assist intestinal power to reduce symptoms. May cause complications Constipation is a chronic disease,, long-term constipation can cause some complications. 1, hemorrhoids: constipated patients have to hold their breath hard during defecation, long time down the road will make the pressure of blood vessels around the anus increase, poor perianal blood circulation, causing hemorrhoids and hemorrhoidal bleeding. 2, poor mood, upset, inattentive. Severe constipation patients with long-term “inconvenient” situation, eat the row can not, mood depression and lead to liver stagnation, in turn, affecting intestinal peristalsis, intestinal probiotics will also be reduced, aggravating the symptoms. Colorectal cancer: Most of the bowel cancer patients have a history of constipation for a long time before the onset of the disease. Healthy people should defecate day by day, if long-term constipation, the colon is not accessible, the harmful substances stored for a long time may be heterogeneous fermentation, constipation increases the contact time between the intestinal mucosa and harmful substances, and increases the incidence rate of intestinal cancer. 4, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases: because constipation obstructs the excretion of cholesterol, the cholesterol content in the blood rises, and the blood vessels are easily attacked by cholesterol and sclerosis occurs, and the diameter of the hardened blood vessels becomes thinner, and the peripheral resistance increases, which triggers high blood pressure. Elderly hypertensive patients will also be constipated, defecation in the force of too fierce and induced stroke. 5, breast cancer: Canada’s Toronto Cancer Institute experts found that constipation in the feces there is a mutagen. Determined, the mutagens and the currently known several cancerous substances similar. These mutagens absorbed by the intestinal tract, can be with the blood circulation into the breast tissue which is quite sensitive to it, increasing the chance of breast cancer. What should I do if I am constipated? The causes of constipation are different, and the countermeasures should be changed accordingly. However, in general, the method should be scientific, and you should not blindly take diet pills and laxatives to relieve the symptoms. Currently taking diet pills and laxatives is a very serious problem, blindly taking laxatives is likely to lead to constipation is getting heavier and heavier. These laxatives, whether in Western medicine phenolphthalein, aloe vera, or Chinese medicine rhubarb, senna, etc. may lead to colon black lesions. Make the mucous membrane in the intestine, which should be pink, black, or leopard spots. Serious damage to the nerves of the intestinal wall, unable to transmit peristalsis information. Constipation should be taken seriously and treated early. If it is a mild constipation with irregular bowel movement, first of all, don’t be burdened mentally, you can adjust your diet and living habits in time, and supplement the bacterial food, such as yogurt, etc., which can be completely cured after reasonable adjustments. If you already need to rely on drugs to defecate moderate constipation, you have to pay more attention to supplement dietary fiber in the diet. Patients with poor stomach and intestines can be more practical with more soluble fiber oats, barley, konjac, beans, apples, grapes and other foods; if there is no gastrointestinal problems of the patient can be supplemented with insoluble dietary fiber, such as plant roots, stems, leaves, skins and fruits, grains, fungus, seaweed, etc., these dietary fibers can absorb water, so that the volume of fecal matter is swollen to increase the stimulation of the large intestine to defecate. And it is important to combine medication, but not simply use stimulants, with the medication combination of bulking agents + bowel power pills + probiotics. Bulking agent absorb water will make the feces swell, intestinal power medicine to increase peristalsis, probiotics to improve the bacterial flora in the large intestine. Adjusting from the internal environment will be much less harmful and more effective. If the constipation problem cannot be solved even with medication, then it is severe constipation. Need to rush to the doctor, if necessary, through surgery for treatment.