Constipation
Constipation is different experience for different people. For lots of people, it simply means irregular stools. For other people, constipation means rigid and hard stools, trouble in passing stools (straining), or a feel of incomplete cleaning of stomach after a bowel movement. The reason of all of these types of constipation is possibly different, and the approach to each should be customized to the particular type of constipation. In easy words "Constipation is a state of stomach in which bowel movements are rare or incomplete". Constipation is also called costiveness, and irregularity of bowel movement. With constipation stools are typically solid, dry, in small size, and difficult and painful to remove.
Constipation is a digestive system disorder. The patient has solid feces that are hard to push out. In many cases, constipation causes because the colon has soak too much of the water from the food. So slower the food travels in your digestive tract, the more water the colon will soak up from food. As a result, the feces become solidified, hard and dry. Due to that emptying the bowels from body can become very painful, and in some severe cases there may be signs of bowel obstruction.
In Medical terms, constipation generally is defined as less than three bowel movements per week. In case of severe constipation is there is less than one bowel movement per week. There is no medical explanation to have a bowel movement daily. If there is no bowel movement for two or three days, it does not cause physical uneasiness, only mental tension for some people. Constipation is a symptom it is not a disease. At some point of life, almost everybody experiences constipation generally because of poor diet. Most constipation is short-term and not severe.
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