Products of all kinds against constipation They are the best sellers in pharmacies and herbalists. The vast majority act by stimulating intestinal transit.
Now, the rhythm of that traffic It is different for each person: the average is 18-24 hours, although there are those who naturally have a slower pace, every 2 or even 3 days.
If removal is comfortable, without the need for exaggerated pushing, it is not considered constipation.
In many cases the difficulty is not in the traffic, which can be more or less fast depending on the person without this being a problem. The difficulty lies in the act of elimination: feces They have reached their destination in due time and form (pun intended), but there are difficulties with expulsion.
The straight one, The final portion of the digestive tract is usually empty, but generally after breakfast it receives content for elimination. It distends, dilates and that produces the feeling of wanting to go to the bathroom.
The first «call» is the most effective so that removal is easy and complete. The entire mechanism is warning that it is in optimal conditions to carry out the task diligently.
If we ignore that first call, the feeling of need will disappear. The feces will be retained or stored in the rectum (something not recommended) and, when its volume increases again, the desire, with its new «consignment», will reappear.
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How to combat constipation naturally
The morning rush They often mean that, from a young age, we do not heed that call. This, ignored, even stops appearing and we leave the house without the tasks done. Other people’s bathrooms do not seem comfortable to us and we wait to return home, sometimes at the end of the day.
Disposal in the afternoon is then expensive. The retained feces They have become dehydrated and the muscles, having retained feces (or gases) in the rectum, have been active all day and can no longer easily find the state of relaxation necessary to make way for them.
This generates a very common constipation whose origin is in the anorectal part, in the posterior part of the pelvic floor. In extreme cases, people who suffer from it unknowingly close their muscles at the time of elimination instead of relaxing them. They then perform very intense expulsion pushes, which are the most common cause of abuse of the pelvic floor.
There is often talk of the need to reinforce the pelvic floor for various purposes, but very little of the convenience of learning to relax it when going to the bathroom. Just as the shoulders tense under stress, so can the pelvic floor and be unable to let go to «let it out.»
Be a creature of habit
Be animals of habit plays in our favor when it comes to re-establishing the habit of devoting time and attention to the «poop call» in the morning and restoring harmony to this important daily process. It can be done and it is worth it.
This process is actually a sensory reeducationsince it is about acquiring the habit of listening to and interpreting the signals sent by our digestive system. These sensations tell us that the time has come to do our part: leave everything and go to the bathroom to authorize the «exit.»
The proposed exercises, Inspired by Blandine Calais-Germain’s Perineum and Movement method, they are simple, but they can be of great help to stimulate and identify these signals: your health, mood and well-being will benefit in many aspects.