Sometimes there is an acute stool retention, and then there is a suspicion of partial or complete intestinal obstruction. In these cases, you should apply for medical help.
Constipation may be chronic. They are divided into 4 groups.
- Suppression of defecation with a feeling of pain caused by cracks in the anus, hemorrhoids or inflammations.
- Insufficient frequency of defecation can be associated with brain damage (dorsal) or restrictions in movement, and even with prolonged intake of laxatives.
- Chronic constipation can be caused by a violation of the motility of the large intestine.
- The back passage can be atypically located or the large intestine can be narrowed from birth. This is another cause of chronic constipation.
Constipation in children.
Quite a frequent occurrence are constipation in children, they are often associated with poor food quality. In children up to 6 months, constipation is not only not the passage of stool for 24 hours, but also their isolation in solid form. For babies up to one and a half-year-old age, it is considered normal to separate out a stool or mucilaginous feces. For schoolchildren and preschoolers it is normal, if the intestine is emptied once every 24 hours, and the feces can have any consistency.
If the children emptied the intestines several times a day, but the fecal consistency is grainy, the child complains of attempts and pain in the abdomen, this is also constipation, which requires medical intervention.
Constipation: treatment.
Treatment of constipation should begin only after identifying the causes that caused them. Maybe a sufficient remedy will be just adjusting the diet, or maybe an operation will be necessary. That is why if you suspect of constipation, you should contact the doctor at the diagnostic center.
Most often, in the treatment of such ailments as constipation, laxatives are used, but only if it does not concern the chronic form in which the doctor prescribes the examination and, according to the results, certain methods of treatment.
Constipation: treatment with herbs and other folk remedies.
It must be said that most of the folk healing remedies listed below can not eliminate the cause that caused constipation, they will help only to relax the intestines and withdraw the feces more easily. If you have frequent constipation, then you should contact this question with a specialist to understand the reasons.
In order to prevent constipation, there are several methods that can be used singly or together. You can add a teaspoon of soda to a mug and drink a couple of glasses before eating in the morning. And you can eat a couple of green apples along with the peel, drink half a cup of brine cabbage (sauerkraut), but only it should be warm, which is not very pleasant. A more pleasant method is to drink warm water with a spoon of honey dissolved in it. As for vegetables, you can drink juice from carrots and eat fresh onions.
Well can help and broths, for example, from plums, oats, as well as tea from apples and dried cherries, tincture from buckthorn (bark). Drink these drinks three times a day, at least.
You can mix grams of 150 centennials with 300 grams of a little under-honey. This mixture should be stored in the cold and taken on a spoon a couple of times a day: on an empty stomach in the morning and before going to bed. Tincture can be washed down with water.
As a laxative, a cucumber pickle works well, and in it cucumbers should be no less than 4 weeks, and seasonings and spices are not required. Brine should be drunk up to 4 times a day for a whole glass.
To relieve the intestines, you can turn to a banana. We remove the peel, divide it into 3 parts and eat during the day. Before you eat another slice, dip it into toasted sesame seeds.
From constipation rescues mineral water with large volumes of alkali and sulfur.
From chronic constipation, you can get rid of using a tincture of a couple of spoons of the crushed root of a burdock and a couple of glasses of boiled water. For two hours it must be protested and drunk half a cup up to four times a day hot.
Excellent laxative - a tomato with butter filling: we cut out the middle from the tomato and pour oil there (any: olive, sunflower, sea-buckthorn), eat for the night. You can add salt to taste.
Constipation can be conquered and infusion from the roots of ordinary dandelion. Pour a spoonful of spilled roots into a glass of boiling water and hold it for 8 hours. Drink a quarter cup to 4 times a day, preferably before meals.
Can help and the simplest recipe: before going to bed eat kiwi.
In the fight against constipation, syrup from mountain ash can also help. Ripe red rowan berries fall asleep in a bottle, pour in layers of sugar. We bundle a full bottle with a rag and put it in warmth, even in the sun. After a while, the dissolved sugar forms a syrup, it must be insisted 3 or 4 weeks, but so that it does not wander. Then it must be filtered through cheesecloth, add grams of 25 alcohol based on half a liter of syrup. Take it by a glass on an empty stomach. Constipation receded - take a break.
Pour a couple of tablespoons of bran with hot milk and hold for 40 minutes under the lid. In the morning, on an empty stomach, we eat half a cup of this way brewed bran, and then another half a cup - before going to bed. We are treated for about 4 weeks.
Excellent assistant in the fight against chronic constipation - tincture of flax seed. Take a teaspoon of pre-crushed flaxseed, brew with a glass of boiled water and in a thermos can withstand about 5 hours. Before going to bed, drinking tincture, and with the seeds together.