What should I do if I don’t have a bowel movement for a few days?

In daily life, many people do not defecate for several days. This is a typical manifestation of constipation. Although constipation is not a very serious matter, if it is not actively relieved and treated, it will also have an adverse effect on your health. Therefore, we cannot easily ignore these problems. Let's take a closer look at how to regulate the body and solve this problem if you do not defecate for several days.

In fact, when facing this kind of problem in life, we should mainly improve our eating habits through diet. Eat more foods rich in dietary fiber to help digestion and detoxification. This can effectively relieve constipation and moisturize the intestines.

Treat constipation with strict non-surgical treatment first

(1) Improve your lifestyle to make it compatible with the physiology of gastrointestinal transit and defecation movements. Increase dietary fiber intake and water intake, and develop good bowel habits. Increase exercise;

(2) Adjusting the psychological state helps to establish a normal defecation reflex;

(3) Treating the primary disease and concomitant diseases is beneficial for treating constipation;

(4) Avoid drug factors as much as possible to reduce constipation caused by various drugs;

(5) Drug treatment should be selected according to the pathophysiology that causes constipation. For slow-transit constipation, intestinal motility drugs should be used, and bulk-forming laxatives, lubricating laxatives, and stimulant laxatives should be selected appropriately. Abuse of laxatives should be avoided;

(6) Biofeedback therapy to correct improper and ineffective defecation movements;

(7) Treatment with traditional Chinese medicine.

After a period of strict non-surgical treatment with little effect, various special examinations show clear pathological anatomy and definite functional abnormalities, surgical treatment can be considered. The surgical indications should be carefully determined and the appropriate surgical procedure should be selected according to the lesions. When multiple lesions exist at the same time, surgery should be performed to resolve the main lesion causing constipation, but also to resolve the secondary or secondary lesions at the same time.

From these introductions, we can see that there are actually many ways to treat constipation, but in life we ​​all recommend adjusting it through diet, because this method will not bring side effects to your health, and thus better help yourself relieve the symptoms of discomfort.