Disease Informations

Treatment of Constipation

Date: 2009-11-24T22:19:00.000-08:00
Treatment of Constipation

• Frequently simply increasing the amount of water and fiber in your diet can really improve your symptoms.
• The key is balance - you don’t want to increase your daily consumption by simply dispersing brainpower across everything… try and step by step introduce foods high in fiber.
• Fiber appends are often suggested but can take more than 2 weeks to accomplish full strength. These are neither disadvantageous nor addictive.
• Try to stay active - even taking a fresh walk after dinner can help tone your muscles, which helps the pass through of your food.
• Try not to ‘keep’ or confuse going for long periods of time - sometimes this cannot be helped, but the longer your stool passes inside your body, the more water gets absorbed from it and the harder it comes.
  

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Symptoms of Constipation

Date: 2009-11-24T22:17:00.000-08:00
Symptoms of Constipation

• Anal itchiness
• Anal hurt or pain, particularly while sitting
• Shiny red blood on toilet tissue, stool or in the toilet pipe bowl
• Pain during bowel movements
• One or more hard caring swellings near the anus
• Unreasonable distorting
• Small, dry, hard stools
• Stomach ache/pain
• Pain
• Feeling like you aren’t finished
• Painful bottom (maybe bleeding)
• Leaking out of liquid or loose stool
• Infrequent stools
• Difficulty defecating/ needing to strain
• Frequent ineffective defecation/ incomplete evacuation (‘sense’ of incomplete evacuation)
• Decreased gastric emptying
• Vomiting
• Aspiration pneumonia
• Hemorrhoids
  

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Preventing of Constipation

Date: 2009-11-24T22:16:00.000-08:00
Preventing of Constipation

• Take enough fiber in diet
• Exercise regularly
• Stool softener e.g. easy laxative: magnesia milk
• Drink enough of water
• Go to the bathroom when you have the urge
• Eat a high-fiber diet of fruits, vegetables, whole grains
• Avoid strain during bowel movement
• Exercise daily
• Drinking enough water at least 8 glasses per day

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Causes of Constipation

Date: 2009-11-24T22:13:00.000-08:00
Causes of Constipation

• Low consumption of cellulose/fiber
• Low consumption of water
• Changes of diet
• Taking medicine
• Lack of exercise
• Stress and travel
• Delay in going to the bathroom when having the urge to defecate
• During pregnancy and after childbirth
• Distortion during bowel movement
• May result from constipation
• Sitting for long periods of time
• Anal infection
• Poor fiber consumption in the diet
• Poor fluid consumption
• An inactive lifestyle
• Environmental changes
• Life-style/routine changes
• Certain medications

Additional matters that add:

• Change of location
• Pregnancy
• Change in diet
• Repetition ignoring the urge to open your bowels
• Deficiency of interest in eating
• Lots of convenience foods
• Getting aged
• Poor dentition so unable to chew harder foods

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Constipation

Date: 2009-11-24T22:08:00.000-08:00
Constipation

Occasional or difficult stools or trouble passing stools. Constipation could affect pain during the passing from a bowel movement; Constipation is having difficulty opening your bowels. This usually leads to you going to the toilet less often, unfitness to pass a bowel movement after distorting or pushing for more than 10 minutes, or no bowel movements after more than 3 days.
It is normal to open your bowels anywhere between 3 times a days to 3 times a week- it does not matter how much is normal for you; the trouble arises when you get less common and need to strain.
It is normal to get this at times, but if you need to strain more than a quarter of the time it becomes a trouble
Stool Chart

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