Constipation is a relatively common disease in clinical practice, especially for middle-aged and elderly people. Although constipation is generally not life-threatening, it can seriously affect people's quality of life. Constipation can be physiological or pathological.
Take the middle-aged and elderly people as an example. Their constipation may be just a physiological phenomenon, because their bodies have already declined to a certain extent, the peristalsis of the gastrointestinal tract is weakened, and coupled with less exercise, constipation is not enough. It's weird. In order to let everyone know more about constipation, let me share relevant knowledge.
1. How to make your own laxative water to make the stool easy?
is actually just looking at this title, which obviously exaggerates the effect, because there is no water that can guarantee 100% smooth bowel movements, even laxatives.
For normal people, every day's bowel movement will be controlled by consciousness, and the bowel movement is also unimpeded. Normal people have 1~2 bowel movements per day, and the amount of bowel movements is 100~300g. If a person has fewer than 3 bowel movements per week, and there is dry stool, laborious or difficult bowel movements, then consider constipation. There are many reasons for
, which are functional and organic. Maybe everyone doesn't understand the functionality and the organic nature, so I need to explain it here. Functionality mainly refers to a phenomenon in which the regulatory function of the central nervous system is disordered, resulting in abnormal functions of the corresponding organs or tissues.
Functionality and organicity are actually two relative concepts. Organicity actually refers to the occurrence of damage to organs or tissues. For example, functionality is like the memory of a mobile phone is full. Even though the mobile phone card is deleted, things are deleted. Can return to normal. The quality is like a broken mobile phone screen, you need to change the screen phone to use it normally.
There are many reasons for functional constipation, such as eating too little, inadequate dietary fiber intake or drinking water, mental problems (such as stress in life, staying up late), defecation time is too long, and sitting time is too long Long-term, pregnancy, irritable bowel syndrome, etc. There is a type called spastic constipation. This type of defecation speed will be significantly slowed down. In this way, it is equivalent to frequent feces truncation, so the stool discharged is similar to sheep feces, short and hard.
There are many factors for organic constipation, such as hemorrhoids, anal fissures, perianal abscesses, intestinal obstruction, bowel cancer, lead poisoning, cerebral infarction, volvulus and so on. Take anal fissure as an example. Although it does not directly cause constipation, it is very painful when it comes to anal fissure. Many people choose not to defecate. Over time, defecation problems will occur and cause constipation.
2. What is the harm of constipation?
damage the liver: constipation means that the stool stays in the intestine for a longer time, and because people have to eat every day, there will be a steady stream of stool production. However, it is not a good thing that the stool stays for a long time, which will increase the absorption of the stool by the gastrointestinal tract, causing some harmful substances to be absorbed into the body. We all know that the liver is an organ for detoxification. These harmful substances will definitely be detoxified by the liver. Long-term exposure to this condition will not only increase the burden on the liver, but also damage the liver.
increases rectal and anal canal diseases: I have seen many patients before, and they often have constipation. The stool produced by constipation is relatively dry and hard. When it passes through the rectum or anal canal, it will cause damage to them and may cause anal fissure. Patients with constipation have relatively dry stools, which can irritate the rectum and anal canal, causing local edema and ischemia, which can induce diseases such as proctitis, hemorrhoids, and anal fissure.
increases the risk of bowel cancer: Some people have done some research and investigation before , and found that the risk of bowel cancer in middle-aged and elderly people with long-term constipation is significantly higher than that of normal people. This is actually easy to understand. In patients with constipation, their feces and intestines have been in contact for a longer time. This will increase the irritation of carcinogens in the feces to the intestines. Over time, it will definitely increase the risk of bowel cancer.
causes mental illness: Many middle-aged and elderly people have constipation that is not temporary, but long-term. This is definitely harmful to the human body and can cause anxiety, mental stress, depression and other mental problems.
increases the risk of cardiovascular disease: before I was in my heartWhen I was in the department, I once encountered a patient with constipation. He went to the toilet alone to defecate. As a result, myocardial infarction suddenly appeared, which eventually caused death. According to a large number of experiments, constipation patients will increase their blood pressure by about 45mmHg if they defecate hard. If the blood pressure rises suddenly, the plaque becomes unstable, which increases the risk of cardiovascular disease.
3. How to deal with constipation?
In fact, most of the constipation in reality is organic, and you can prevent and treat constipation by changing your own bad habits.
can appropriately increase the intake of vegetables and fruits, such as apples, oranges, bean sprouts, celery, radish, corn, etc. These substances are rich in dietary fiber, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, so it can reduce the incidence of constipation. However, you need to pay attention to not taking too much dietary fiber every day, otherwise it will cause symptoms such as bloating and hiccups. At the same time, it is also necessary to ensure a sufficient amount of drinking water. Priority is given to boiled water or purified water. The daily intake of water should be controlled at about 2000ml, which can increase the water in the stool and make the stool soft.
Another important way to prevent constipation is to keep exercising. Maybe you still don’t realize the effect of exercise on defecation. Take the patients with cerebral infarction or cerebral hemorrhage I encountered in the department. Many of them are unable to take care of themselves because of hemiplegia, so they need to stay in bed for a long time. This will cause stomach problems. Intestinal peristalsis is weakened, which naturally causes constipation. There are still some people with constipation caused by mental factors, and exercise can relieve stress to a certain extent, and can naturally alleviate the symptoms of constipation.
In addition, it is necessary to develop good bowel habits. In life, it is estimated that many people and friends have the habit of defecation for a long time, but they don't know that this will cause the rectal sensory nerves to become insensitive and cause habitual constipation. Some people have the habit of tolerating bowel movements because they are busy at work, which can also cause habitual constipation. In order to prevent and treat constipation, you should develop the habit of defecation regularly, and don't endure not having a bowel movement. Don't go to the toilet for too long. It is best to control it within 5 minutes.
Constipation can also be treated with some drugs, such as mosapride that promotes gastrointestinal motility, laxatives polyethylene glycol and lactulose, probiotics and so on. Don't underestimate probiotics, they can regulate the intestinal flora, promote the digestion and absorption of stool, and can alleviate constipation. However, it should be noted that laxatives and drugs that promote gastrointestinal motility cannot be used indiscriminately. Intestinal obstruction must be eliminated. Because intestinal obstruction patients have a blocked intestine, the use of laxatives or drugs that promote gastrointestinal motility will increase local pressure, may aggravate the symptoms of intestinal obstruction, and even cause perforation of the digestive tract.
If constipation is caused by certain diseases, we must actively treat these diseases in order to achieve good results.
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