Constipation: Medical and Dietary Response
MEDICAL RESPONSE
According to medical experts say in the digestive tract, constipation is a common evil among adults, and to some extent unknown. This is because most people think you have constipation when they go to the bathroom every day. There is confusion in this regard, because not all people have a bowel movement every day. For some, going to the bathroom two or three times a week is enough.
Anyway, we must bear in mind that constipation is a symptom not a disease. It must deal with it, but by improving eating habits and life. Medical advice if they experience constipation always based on improving diet, exercise and respond to the need to go to the bathroom when it happens, do not wait. However, there are medicines to address the problem, and among them, experts always recommend using forming laxatives fecal type, no irritants.
DIETARY RESPONSE
The increasing contribution of fiber from whole grains, vegetables and fruits, legumes, fruits and nuts is associated with an increase in stool frequency and increased stool weight. Fiber acts increased fecal mass, stimulating bowel movements and facilitating the flow of stool. Another aspect to consider is to increase fluid intake with meals (soups, jello, tea, etc.) And between meals (preferably water, natural juices), but we also study some form of physical exercise on a regular help strengthen the abdominal wall muscles involved in the expulsion of feces.
Other indications of diets rich in fiber.
Diets rich in fiber will not only benefit constipation:
Assist in the prevention of other diseases, hemorrhoids and varicose veins, colon diverticular disease, gallstones, biliary and bowel cancer.
Help in the treatment of hypercholesterolemia (fiber drag part of the cholesterol in bile salts with the stool), diabetes (the fiber helps regulate blood sugar levels) and obesity (by satisfying effect.) Also, the fiber reduces the number of relapses in people with chronic ulcer.
It should be borne in mind that the introduction of more fiber in the diet should always be done gradually, which is a function of previous dietary treatment of each person, since otherwise, there are digestive disturbances (cramps abdominal bloating, diarrhea) and may even compromise the achievement of certain nutrients by the body (minerals such as calcium, magnesium, iron and zinc).
Contraindications to a diet rich in fiber.
Diets rich in fiber should not be used for diarrhea in diabetic patients with gastroparesis (impaired nerve that slows the movement of the stomach mixing, the food stalls) in case of inflammation of the mucous layer whatever the reason, and in case of stenosis (narrowing of the lumen of the intestine).
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