Incomplete bowel movement is a common occurrence that torments many people. Especially in big cities. It leads to severe emotional and physical discomfort, this is the main danger of the disease. The quality of life of a person who lives with such a syndrome decreases.
Quite often, incomplete bowel movement accompanies other diseases. This happens with hemorrhoids, rectocele, condylomas, polyps. Constipation, diarrhea can occur, and their alternation is also common. Everything else is accompanied by pain in the abdomen and general malaise. All this spoils a person's life.
Causes that lead to the syndrome
The gastroenterologist is engaged in the diagnosis and treatment of this unpleasant disease. But sometimes, depending on the reasons for the formation of this disease, consultation of other specialists is required. This will be discussed later.
Many people experience discomfort during and immediately after eating. These discomforts can bevarious - nausea, a feeling of heaviness and fullness in the stomach, abdominal pain, increased gas formation. But more often, these symptoms do not mean that a person has incomplete emptying syndrome. Perhaps it is gastritis or gastroenterocolitis. But the disease, which will be discussed in this article, is sometimes even more unpleasant than the above diseases.
The discomfort it causes makes it difficult to live normally. Why is this happening? The answer is quite simple: a person may constantly experience a desire to visit the toilet, pain, bloating, a feeling of dissatisfaction. False urges to empty can overtake anywhere. At work, at leisure, in a public place. Moreover, this most often happens in society, since a person focuses on his feelings, precisely when he is worried. At home, in a calm environment, the symptoms are usually not so pronounced.
Therefore, they consider the psychological component to be the main cause of such an ailment. And the main doctor who can really help to cope with it is a psychotherapist or even a psychiatrist.
Incomplete emptying doesn't just happen. Everything has its reasons, let's consider the main ones. The syndrome may appear as a result of the following factors:
- Constant stress, increased nervous excitability, suspiciousness, hypochondria.
- As a result of injury to internal organs (namely, the stomach and intestines).
- An advanced form of dysbacteriosis.
- Infectious diseases that severely affect the digestive tract.
- Hormonal disorders (often this happens whendiabetes, hypothyroidism, obesity, menopause, and premenstrual periods).
- Gynecological diseases that directly affect bowel function.
- Errors in nutrition, as well as changes in the daily routine. Fiber is not supplied with food, so the gastrointestinal tract malfunctions.
- Sedentary lifestyle. How does constipation occur in adults? Physical inactivity often leads to them, and subsequently there is a syndrome of incomplete emptying.
- Hereditary factors.
- Elderly. In older people, all processes in the body slow down, so constipation is a common occurrence. And under the influence of constipation, incomplete emptying of the intestines is also observed.
But, as already mentioned, the disease is most common in extremely sensitive people prone to introspection. Their psyche is unstable, they seem to be predisposed to psychological and neurological ailments.
With malnutrition, the syndrome of incomplete emptying of the intestine also very often occurs. If you eat a lot of junk food (fried, fatty, spicy, pickled), then there will definitely be problems with the gastrointestinal tract. Harmful flavors, flavor enhancers, dyes. Lack of fiber also affects - this can lead to chronic constipation.
With a sedentary lifestyle, the risk of "earning" intestinal pathology increases significantly.
Heredity plays an important role in the occurrence of the syndrome. If close relatives suffered from such an ailment, then there is a chance that you will also have it.
With the existing tendency to constipation, the syndrome of incomplete emptying often occurs. Normally, a person should not go to the toilet less than 3 times a week. It's best to do this daily. Then the feces will not be deposited in the intestines, and toxins will not accumulate.
Causes of constipation in adults can be anomalies in the structure of the intestines, adhesions, the occurrence of neoplasms that grow and interfere with fecal masses, as well as violations of the secretory function of the intestine, which happens with IBS, or irritable bowel syndrome.
The treatment of such an ailment is often problematic, since the psychological component is great. But in any case, it must be comprehensive. One doctor is not enough, so you need to get advice from several (proctologist, psychotherapist, gastroenterologist, in some cases a neurologist).
The choice of treatment methods is made on an individual basis, everything depends entirely on the symptoms and complaints of the patient. We will consider the main signs of incomplete bowel movement below.
How dangerous is the condition?
The act of defecation is a natural process. Normally, it should be 1 time per day, sometimes 2 times. Should pass without any pain. Only under such conditions can the human body function without deviations.
If the intestines are not properly emptied, the state of he alth suffers, as well as the appearance of a person. The work of the nervous system is disrupted, nails, hair, skin deteriorate. General fatigue appears, vitality disappears.tone.
Also, incomplete emptying of the bowels and the constant urge to defecate make a person emotionally unstable, quick-tempered, he has headaches, tinnitus, insomnia, frequent urination.
If this is due to psychological reasons, then as soon as a person calms down and returns to the usual order, all the symptoms disappear without a trace. No special treatment is required.
Incomplete bowel movements: symptoms
But there are times when a person suffers from incomplete bowel movements for a very long time. And the signs of the disease are already more serious and painful:
- Constipation occurs (in adults this is a common occurrence) with mucus in the stool.
- Diarrhea, and mucus is also present in the feces.
- Feeling of a full bowel.
- Heaviness in the abdomen.
- Pain in the abdomen (often on the right side).
- False urge to defecate, and the stomach is characteristically “twisting”.
- Feeling dissatisfied after the act of defecation, it seems that you want more, but it does not work.
- Rumbling in the intestines, which is observed constantly, regardless of the meal.
- Small amount of blood in the stool.
In rare cases, general well-being is disturbed, there is insomnia, weakness and body aches, pain in the back.
Symptoms are not always present all at once. They manifest differently for each person. In the event that a person develops such symptoms, he should immediatelysee a doctor. The specialist will prescribe certain studies in order to correctly establish the diagnosis. How to get rid of the feeling of incomplete emptying of the intestine? To do this, you must first undergo an examination, then treatment.
Diet
Special medical tests will help to understand the diagnosis. It is necessary to differentiate the syndrome of incomplete emptying of the bowel from other, more serious diseases.
Sometimes a person himself becomes the culprit of his condition, because he eats absolutely wrong. He eats foods that cause increased peristalsis, lead to increased gas formation. For effective diagnosis, a strict diet is needed. Perhaps then the feeling of incomplete emptying of the intestine will pass without any medication. Consider its basic principles:
- Products that are harmful to the intestines are excluded, namely those that provoke gases (all types of flour products, cabbage).
- Antibiotics, laxatives are not allowed to be taken, and in general it is better not to take anything before the examination, then the diagnosis will be as accurate as possible.
- You need to eat plenty of fiber to improve bowel function (bran, fresh vegetables and fruits). Oatmeal for breakfast can work well. Porridge must be well boiled, then it will envelop the intestines, which will positively affect its condition.
- All dishes must be baked or steamed, never fried.
- Eating small portions helps, butfrequent.
- It is not recommended to drink tea, alcohol, coffee, and any type of soda, because, again, this can cause gas formation in the intestines. It is better to switch to non-carbonated mineral water. Especially if there are frequent false urges to defecate.
Diagnosis of incomplete emptying syndrome
So, the diet is appointed, observed in full, but the discomfort is still present. Irritable bowel syndrome and incomplete emptying does not go anywhere. In this case, the patient must undergo examinations prescribed by the doctor:
- it is necessary to donate feces (to identify possible parasites, to study the microorganisms that inhabit the intestines), its physical and chemical characteristics are of great importance;
- conduct a bacteriological culture to determine the infection in the intestine;
- blood is examined for biochemistry;
- an irrigoscopy or an x-ray of the intestine with a contrast agent is performed;
- colonoscopy is prescribed in especially severe cases when there is a suspicion of oncology;
- sigmoidoscopy is performed (with the help of an endoscope, the organs of the gastrointestinal tract are examined).
Before all procedures, the patient is specially prepared. Do an enema to free the intestines from feces. If necessary, pain relief, especially for such an unpleasant procedure as a colonoscopy.
Such an integrated approach will help to identify deviations and establish an accurate diagnosis. After that, a certain treatment is already prescribed. You need to understand that incomplete bowel movement (we have considered the reasons) is not a sentence.
Medicated treatment
Taking certain medications will alleviate unpleasant symptoms.
First, you need to get rid of gas formation in the intestines. To do this, use probiotics, products enriched with enzymes that improve the process of digestion of food and the absorption of nutrients. The normal microflora in the intestine is well preserved by special preparations with bacteria and acids. These include Hilak Forte, Linex, Bifidumbacterin. Be sure to enrich your diet with lactic acid products. Kefir, fermented baked milk, curdled milk, as well as various live yoghurts are especially effective for incomplete emptying of the intestines.
Secondly, if there is a tendency to diarrhea, then it would be advisable to use drugs that have a fixing effect. These include "Smecta", "Loperamide". It is better not to get carried away with these means, since you can achieve the opposite effect, and then you will have to deal with constipation. As an aid, you can use folk methods for the treatment of diarrhea. Eat, for example, millet porridge or drink decoctions of herbs (oak bark, St. John's wort, elderberry). Then the patient will not be haunted by the feeling of incomplete bowel movement.
Thirdly, if a person suffers from constant constipation, you can not do without medication. These are special prokinetic drugs. For example, "Duphalac","Motilium", "Mukofalk", "Sennade". Beetroot juice and prunes have proven themselves as folk remedies.
Take any medicine only after consulting a doctor. Even if we are talking about drugs with beneficial bacteria in the composition.
Anspasmodics for pain
With severe pain in the intestines, it is necessary to take antispasmodics. The most famous are "No-Shpa", "Papaverin", gases are removed by the drug "Espumizan". Herbal infusions (chamomile, mint, dill water) have long been used to get rid of intestinal colic. In case of pain and gas, you cannot do without a special diet, because if you do not stop eating harmful foods, there will be no sense. The feeling of fullness in the stomach will continue to be present.
What to eat?
The following foods have a very calming effect on the intestines:
- crackers;
- jelly;
- blueberries;
- strong tea.
Using them regularly, you can get rid of bouts of pain during bowel movements.
Effectiveness of psychotherapy
If there is always a feeling of incomplete emptying of the intestines, in addition to drug treatment, psychotherapy will be effective. Of course, not everyone has the opportunity to visit a psychotherapist, because his services are quite expensive. But sometimes you can’t do without it, because in 70% of cases the psyche is to blame for the development of this disease. It turns out a kind of closedcircle: the patient has problems with the act of defecation, he fixates on them, as a result, they appear twice as often. It is possible to get rid of this syndrome on your own, but it will take time, willpower and the opportunity to distract yourself from your own experiences.
Psychotherapy is individual and group. Depending on individual characteristics, patients themselves choose a convenient way to attend classes. Some will need a few sessions to feel better, while others may not even need a dozen.
Conclusion
Suspicious people should be less obsessed with themselves and their well-being. Communicate more with people around you, get the most positive emotions. Perhaps then the feeling of incomplete emptying of the intestine after a bowel movement will pass by itself. If not, don't hesitate - go see a doctor!
