Symptoms of constipation in the elderly

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Elderly people are prone to constipation, elderly people need to pay attention to constipation, general elderly constipation is often due to the emergence of disease or gastrointestinal function slowly weakened and other reasons, what are the symptoms of constipation? Many elderly people are very concerned about this problem. If we know the symptoms and causes of constipation in advance, we can prevent it in advance, and we don't have to panic when there are problems. So today we'll take a look at the symptoms of constipation

Symptoms of constipation in the elderly

After the elderly appear constipation, they often have very little defecation. The interval between defecation is very long, from three or two days to ten days. Normal people basically defecate once a day. Of course, this is also related to the amount of food the patients eat every day.

When the elderly have constipation, they will have difficulty in defecating when they defecate. They often have to use a lot of strength and feel like they have not finished defecating after defecation. This is because the stool is relatively dry, rough and hard, but also accompanied by abdominal distension discomfort

Constipation patients because the weight is not the same, so the symptoms are not the same. Patients need to pay attention, because after constipation, patients will have loss of appetite, weight loss, fever, skin problems, serious patients will also hematochezia, hemorrhoids, anal fissure and so on.

matters needing attention

In fact, the symptoms of constipation are very obvious, generally manifested as defecation effort, too little stool, too hard and other obvious symptoms, but elderly constipation can also lead to some other complications, such as fainting, myocardial infarction, hemorrhoids and so on. Serious cases can also lead to some physiological changes that we can't see with the naked eye.