1, affect the quality of sleep stomach does not fit is restless, constipation lead to aggravate the elderly insomnia and other pain, resulting in loss of appetite, fatigue, dizziness and headache, depression or irritability. 2, aggravate respiratory diseases lung and large intestine, large intestine conduction failure, affecting the purging function of the lung, chest full of coughing and wheezing, the most common in the elderly emphysema, pulmonary heart disease, also often aggravated by constipation and cough. 3, induced cardiovascular disease, hypertension, atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease and other cardiovascular diseases of the elderly, often due to constipation, forceful defecation, increased abdominal pressure or excessive force and sudden rise in blood pressure, resulting in cerebrovascular rupture and cerebral hemorrhage and other acute cerebrovascular disease. 4, cause intestinal cancer, such as excessive accumulation of fecal stones, can lead to the occurrence of blockage intestinal obstruction secret so that the stool through the intestine to the time significantly prolonged, so that the concentration of various malignant substances in the stool, and prolonged contact time with the colon mucosa. Malignant substances and colonic mucosa in constant contact for a long time, prone to malignancy, so long-term constipation, there is an increased risk of colonic malignant latent in the elderly. 5, good incidence of hemorrhoids elderly weak, pelvic muscle relaxation and weakness, constipation can easily cause rectal prolapse in the elderly, namely prolapse, can also cause the onset and aggravation of hemorrhoids.