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Constipation Treatment
Constipation is the decrease in the frequency of disposal of body’s waste products as stools or difficulty in the formation and passage of stools.
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Stool is formed in the colon as the food moves through the intestines down to through the colon to the rectum concomitantly absorbing water.
The stool thus when it reaches the rectum is solid as most of the water is reabsorbed back into the body’s bloodstream. If too much water is reabsorbed then there are many chances of constipation as the stool becomes too dry and is very hard to pass out.
Constipation Prevention :
Constipation can be treated by conservative methods like dietary and lifestyle changes or mild laxatives. Prevention is better than cure; these conservative methods are very good preventive methods, however, sometime can also act as treatment when there is a mild symptom of constipation.
Constipation Symptoms
Constipation is having more than one explanation. It is a condition where the colon is filled with hard stool and mostly very dry in nature which causes passing of the stool becomes very difficult and unnatural.
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It causes infrequent evacuation, a dull feeling to pass the stool, irregular habit forming in defecation and unsatisfied, incomplete bowel emptying.
It is very serious that constipation causes straining in some persons and eventually resulting in the bleeding of the rectum. Rectal defects appear in severe cases. In a medical condition called irritable bowel syndrome, constipation alternates with diarrhea. Age is normally connected with this habit of constipation and as the age grows bowel movements is slowing down and constipation begins to appear.
Constipation
Constipation is having more than one explanation. It is a condition where the colon is filled with hard stool and mostly very dry in nature which causes passing of the stool becomes very difficult and unnatural.
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It causes infrequent evacuation, a dull feeling to pass the stool, irregular habit forming in defecation and unsatisfied, incomplete bowel emptying. It is very serious that constipation causes straining in some persons and eventually resulting in the bleeding of the rectum. Rectal defects appear in severe cases.
In a medical condition called irritable bowel syndrome, constipation alternates with diarrhea. Age is normally connected with this habit of constipation and as the age grows bowel movements is slowing down and constipation begins to appear.
Infant Constipation
Constipation is a condition of the digestive tract or system in which the feces are formed hard and the person experiences difficulty in passing or expelling it from the rectum.
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This condition can also be called as irregularity of the digestive system. When there is lack of ability in colon to hold the water from the available content of the colon, the feces forms in to hard one and naturally the colon absorbs the maximum water from the colon content and the stool becomes harder. Too slow movement of the food content through intestines makes the colon to absorb too much water from the feces and they become hard again and become dry resulting in constipation. Painful defecation occurs in severe cases of constipation.
Constipation is having more than one definition and it includes a hard stool, feeling of difficulty to pass the stool, infrequent or irregular habits of passing the stool and unsatisfied or incomplete emptying of the bowel often.
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In irritable bowel syndrome this constipation alternate with diarrhea. As the age grows naturally the bowel movement decreases and almost 3 to 20 bowel movements per week in older people is said to be normal. But in young adult one movement per day is common and this pattern is not applicable to all. But most people are irregular and fail to pass the stool daily.
It is medically accepted that about 3 movement of bowel per week is enough and when it is below 3 it is said as constipation and when it goes below 2 and this condition is called the severe form of constipation.
