If you don't poop for a few days, you are constipated.

Reasonable bowel habits can help people effectively excrete excess waste and detoxify the body, so maintaining a healthy bowel habit is very necessary for everyone. Constipation is a symptom of very abnormal bowel movements. People with constipation usually go without bowel movements for a long time, and the stool they excrete is dry and hard, which can irritate the anus. According to big data, will not having a bowel movement for a few days be considered constipation?

It is generally believed that it takes about 24 to 48 hours for a normal person to ingest food, digest and absorb it, and excrete it from the body in the form of feces. If it exceeds 48 hours, it can be considered constipation. However, the interval time can vary greatly depending on the food ingredients and each person's eating and bowel habits. Mengyouyou usually has a bowel movement once a day, after getting up or after breakfast. Some people are used to having bowel movements every 2 to 3 days, while others have bowel movements every 4 to 5 days or even longer, but they do not find defecation difficult and feel comfortable and happy after defecation. Therefore, constipation cannot be determined solely by the number of bowel movements, but should be determined based on each person's bowel habits. As long as the excretion is smooth and painless, it cannot be considered constipation.

Constipation refers to a state of difficulty in defecation, including two situations: dry stool that is difficult to defecate and wet stool that is also difficult to defecate. Constipation occurs when the intervals between bowel movements are prolonged, and accompanied by dry and hard stools, difficulty in defecation, a feeling of incomplete defecation or discomfort after defecation, abdominal distension, anal swelling and pain, loss of appetite, dizziness and fatigue, and other painful symptoms. If defecation has the above-mentioned painful symptoms, it should be classified as constipation even if the stool is not dry and the bowel movement occurs once or several times a day.

Therefore, the modern concept of constipation is that constipation is a symptom of many diseases, generally manifested as: the stool volume is too small, too hard, and too difficult to defecate, combined with some special symptoms, such as prolonged and straining defecation, rectal distension, a feeling of incomplete defecation, and even the need for manual assistance to defecate, less than 2 bowel movements within 7 days, or no urge to defecate for a long time.