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Constipation occurs when bowel movements become difficult or less frequent. The normal time between bowel movements varies widely from person to person.
Some people have bowel movements three times a day, while others only once or twice a week. They go three days without a bowel movement is too long. After three days, the stool or feces become harder and harder to pass.
It is considered constipated if you have two or more of the following for at least 3 months:
Straining during defecation more than 25% of the time.
Hard stools more than 25% of the time.
Incomplete evacuation more than 25% of the time.
Two or fewer bowel movements in a week
What causes constipation?
To understand constipation, it helps to know how the colon or large intestine, works. As the food moves through the colon, the colon absorbs water from food while it forms waste products, or stool. Muscle contractions in the colon push the stool toward the rectum. By the time stool reaches the rectum it is solid because most of the water has been absorbed.
Constipation occurs when the colon absorbs too much water or if the colon's muscle contractions are slow or sluggish, causing the stool to move through the colon too slowly. As a result, the stool can be hard and dry. The most common causes of constipation are
* Not enough fiber in the diet
* Lack of physical activity (especially in the elderly)
* Medications
* Milk
* Irritable bowel syndrome
* Changes in life or routine such as pregnancy, aging, and travel
* Abuse of laxatives
* Ignoring the urge to have a bowel movement
* Dehydration
* Diseases or conditions such as stroke (most common)
* Problems with the colon and rectum
* Problems with intestinal function (chronic idiopathic constipation)
The symptoms of constipation
Evacuation difficult
Dried faeces
Painful defecation
Abdominal pain
Nausea
Vomiting
Weight Loss
Discomfort
Feeling weak
Diarrhea - a blockage only allows liquid to pass
Bloating
Loss of appetite
Constipation Home Remedies
Constipation is when the body is unable to pass bowel properly and is a painful process. Sometimes the bowel is so difficult that tends to disorder in the rectum as solid balls that are hard and dry on the Constitution and is difficult to pass. The person has to apply intense pressure over a long period of time in the ass of the intestine. The cause may be mechanical or functional. Medically also termed as defecation dyssynergia.
The main cause of which starts from the colon. The colon is present in our body is sucking water from the waste products as they move toward the rectum. When the stool reaches the rectum to pass it is dry.
However, colon constipation tends to absorb too much water as a result of fecal matter tends to stick in the rectum or becomes difficult to pass. Some other items in the diet, the cause of the problem to reach a higher level include milk, low-fiber diet, medications, hormonal changes, irritable bowel syndrome, excessive use of laxatives, dehydration and movement ignoring bowel elimination.
Read more on Constipation and Haritaki herb and Natural Constipation Remedies
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