What to do if a bedridden elderly person is constipated

Bedridden patients often have fecal impaction, poor defecation, constipation, etc., and need to be treated according to chronic constipation, the specific treatments are as follows: 1, general treatment: drink more water, eat more fiber-rich foods, such as dragon fruit; 2, medication: including pro-dynamics, laxatives, to help promote defecation. More than three days without defecation, can be appropriate external use of corkscrew, or even enema treatment, to promote the discharge of feces; 3, fecal incarceration, can be artificially hand to remove the dried feces, and then corkscrew treatment, the effect is better.