What is constipation, constipation statistics

The exact answer to what constipation is is very difficult to find. Because many people take completely different diseases for constipation, for example, hemorrhoids or anal fissures or stool retention. What is the statistics of constipation and how lonely is the person who suffers from this disease?

What is the frequency of bowel movements?

A chair that passes every day is the norm. That is, if you ate something for 8 hours after an act of defecation and then during the day you had an evacuation of fecal masses, it means that you do not have constipation. What is constipation? This is when you do not have a bowel movement for 32 hours, that is, one and a half days from the time you ate. So, research suggests that a healthy person can produce a bowel movement within this time frame, but the bowel movements themselves may not necessarily take place at the same time. How many times a day and how the bowel movements take place depends on what and how many times a person a person eats and how much he drinks. And how he moves, of course, is also important.

Statistics of the frequency of the chair shows that the chair, which passes 1 time per day, is observed in 60-70% of people. A chair that passes more often than once a day is registered in people in up to 30% of cases. Those who have bowel movements less than 1 time per day - such people 5%. All this is a range of people who do not have such a problem as constipation.

That is, according to the reviews of doctors and the statistics carried out, holding an act of defecation less than once a day is normal for people who do not suffer from constipation. Only once in two of the three healthy men or women do they pass a chair once a day. And 95% of people have a bowel movement from 3 times a day to three times in 7 days.

So, defecation, which takes place less than once every two days, can be considered an iron sign of constipation.

How long does normal defecation last?

The duration of a normal bowel movement is a very important indicator of constipation. Many people, mostly women, complain to doctors that they can not defecate normally. They have to push for a long time before freeing their intestines from feces. At the same time, they often strain the abdominals and rectum, and earn themselves hemorrhoids instead of normally emptying the intestines.

Many people use such a technique as pressing their fingers on the area above the perineum or on the wall of the vagina, so that they finally have a bowel movement. Therefore, you need to know that the normal straining should not be more than 10-20% of the time that goes to the whole act. If straining takes more than a quarter of the time than the whole act of defecation lasts, it means that you have constipation. Even if you are free from feces every day.

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Mass of feces and its character

You can find out if everything is going well in your body, in particular, whether the gastrointestinal tract works well, by the nature of the feces and its mass. If the feces are dehydrated, resembles the pellets and is very hard, it means that the person has constipation. As for the amount of feces, it is usually less in people with constipation than in a normal person with a normal digestive process. If there is not enough water in feces, it means that a person drinks little. In normal feces of a healthy person, water is up to 70% of the total volume, and in the human feces with constipation water may be less than 60%.

The mass of feces may depend on the nation, race. It can vary among different people depending on what they eat. When a person eats more plant foods, feces have a greater mass. When a person loves meat more, the mass of feces is much less. It depends on the particular cuisine of each nation or person individually.

According to the results of social studies, in different nations the mass of feces varies in a wide range. For those who live in the UK and the USA, the average mass of feces ranges from 100 to 200 grams. With a mass less than less than 100 grams can be constipated.

Rural residents of Uganda (a republic in East Africa) have a mass of feces within the range of up to 470 grams. In an adult living in India, the mass of feces per day is just over 300 grams.

The greater the mass of feces, the more water in it, but the consistency of such feces is much softer, and they can be easily evacuated from the rectum. That is, the characteristic signs of constipation is a smaller mass of feces and a harder consistency than normal values.

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How to make a correct diagnosis of constipation?

To conduct a proper diagnosis of constipation, you need to work on this issue with your doctor. Only in this way can you not confuse constipation with another disease and determine its occurrence on time. For this you need to do at least two things. The first task is to consult a doctor immediately after the onset of symptoms of constipation:

• Irregular chair
• Strong straining during bowel movements
• Feeling of incomplete bowel movement even after it has already occurred.
• Pain during stool

The second task is to answer all the questions the doctor will ask, trying to figure out the exact picture of the disease. These may be questions about heredity - were there constipations in your family, symptoms of the disease, what kind of lifestyle do you lead and how physically active is it, or, on the contrary, do you lead a sedentary lifestyle?.

It is important for the patient to know that there may be other symptoms for constipation other than those listed above. In addition to the delay of defecation, there may be a feeling of overcrowding in the abdomen, bloating, gas exhaustion - uncontrolled - nausea, vomiting, poor appetite, there may be a bad taste in the mouth. Analyze the main symptoms that occur with constipation.

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