What causes excessive bowel movements?

Frequent bowel movements will not only affect your life and work, but will also lead to loss of nutrients and trace elements, making you feel tired and weak, with a yellow complexion. If you have frequent bowel movements for a long time, your physical condition will gradually deteriorate. A normal person defecates once or twice a day, and the time is very fixed, so having too many bowel movements is not a good thing. So why do people defecate too often?

The reasons for frequent bowel movements include:

1. Bacterial infection: People may develop enteritis or bacillary dysentery after eating food contaminated by bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Salmonella, Shigella, or drinking beverages contaminated by bacteria, and may experience varying degrees of abdominal pain, diarrhea, and vomiting.

2. Eating cold food: In summer, many people like to eat cold food and drink cold beer, which can result in gastrointestinal dysfunction, accelerated intestinal motility, and diarrhea.

3. Viral infection: When the human body is infected with various viruses through food or other means, it is easy to cause viral diarrhea, such as infection with rotavirus and norovirus, which can cause symptoms such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, fever and general discomfort.

4. Food poisoning: an acute toxic disease caused by eating food contaminated by bacteria and their toxins, or eating uncooked lentils, etc. It is characterized by acute gastrointestinal symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and fever in patients.

5. Indigestion: irregular eating, overeating, eating indigestible food, or food retention in the stomach due to insufficient gastric motility, causing symptoms such as abdominal distension, diarrhea, nausea, acid reflux, heartburn, and belching.

6. For chronic colitis, routine stool tests and colonoscopy can be done. Chronic colitis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the colon of unknown cause. Modern medicine believes. The occurrence of this disease may be related to immune, genetic, dietary, and mental factors. The inflammatory changes of the colon mucosa in chronic colitis are similar to those in many cases of infectious diarrhea. In some cases, bacteria can be cultured in the feces, and some cases are effectively treated with antibiotics. Therefore, some people believe that infection is the cause of this disease. However, repeated research by the medical community over the years has not been able to directly find evidence of the infecting microorganism, so infection is not the direct cause of chronic colitis. Chronic colitis lesions mainly affect the rectum and sigmoid colon, causing edema, erosion, ulcers and bleeding in the intestinal mucosa, and in a few cases the entire colon may be affected. The main symptoms of patients are abdominal pain, diarrhea, mucus and blood in the stool or pus and blood in the stool, accompanied by a feeling of tenesmus; the course of the disease is slow and often recurs. Although western medicine has certain effects in treating chronic colitis, it has serious side effects and is prone to relapse.