Incomplete bowel movement is a common occurrence that plagues many people. Especially in large cities. It leads to severe emotional and physical discomfort, and this is the main danger of the disease. The quality of life of a person who lives with such a syndrome is reduced.
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 joined by abdominal pain and general malaise. All this spoils the life of man.
Causes of the Syndrome
A gastroenterologist is involved in the diagnosis and treatment of this unpleasant ailment. But sometimes, depending on the reasons why this disease has formed, consultation of other specialists is required. This will be discussed later.
Many people experience discomfort during, as well as immediately after eating. These discomforts can be different - 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 an incomplete emptying syndrome. Perhaps this is gastritis or gastroenterocolitis. But the ailment, which will be discussed in this article, is sometimes even more unpleasant than the above diseases.
The discomfort that he causes interferes with a normal life. Why is this happening? The answer is quite simple: a person may constantly feel the desire to visit the toilet, pain, bloating, a feeling of dissatisfaction. False urge to empty can overtake anywhere. At work, on vacation, 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, symptoms are usually not so pronounced.
Therefore, they consider the psychological component as the main reason for this ailment. And the main doctor who can really help to cope with him is a psychotherapist or even a psychiatrist.
Incomplete emptying does not just happen. There are reasons for everything, consider the main ones. The syndrome may appear as a result of the following factors:
- Constant stress, increased nervous irritability, suspiciousness, hypochondria.
- As a result of trauma to internal organs (namely, the departments of the stomach and intestines).
- An advanced form of dysbiosis.
- Infectious diseases from which the organs of the gastrointestinal tract are severely affected.
- Hormonal disorders (often this happens with diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism, obesity, during menopause, as well as in the premenstrual period).
- Gynecological diseases that directly affect the work of the intestines.
- Errors in nutrition, as well as changing the daily routine. Fiber is not supplied with food, therefore, a failure of the gastrointestinal tract occurs.
- A sedentary lifestyle. How do constipation occur in adults? Hypodynamia often leads to them, and subsequently there is an incomplete emptying syndrome.
- Hereditary factors.
- The elderly. In older people, all processes in the body slow down, so constipation is a common occurrence. And under the influence of constipation, incomplete bowel movement is also observed.
But, as already mentioned, the disease is most often found in extremely sensitive people, prone to introspection. Their psyche is unstable, they seem to be predisposed to psychological and neurological ailments.
With improper nutrition, too, a syndrome of incomplete bowel movement occurs very often. If you eat a lot of junk food (fried, fatty, spicy, pickled), then there will certainly be problems with the gastrointestinal tract. Flavors, flavor enhancers, colorants are harmful. Fiber deficiency 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 it will appear in you.
With a tendency to constipation, an incomplete emptying syndrome often occurs. Normally, a person should not go to the toilet less than 3 times a week. It’s better to do it every day. Then the feces will not be deposited in the intestines, and the toxins will not accumulate.
The causes of constipation in adults can be anomalies in the structure of the intestines, adhesions, the occurrence of neoplasms that grow and interfere with the discharge of feces, as well as impaired 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 should be comprehensive. One doctor is not enough, therefore, consultation should be obtained from several (proctologist, psychotherapist, gastroenterologist, in some cases a neurologist).
The selection of treatment methods is carried out individually, it all depends on the symptoms and complaints of the patient. The main signs of incomplete bowel movements will be discussed later.
Why is the condition dangerous?
The act of defecation is a natural process. Normally, it should be 1 time per day, sometimes 2 times. It should pass without any pain. Only under such conditions can the human body function without deviations.
If the intestines are defectively empty, the well-being suffers, as well as the appearance of the person. The nervous system is disturbed, nails, hair, and skin deteriorate. General fatigue appears, vitality disappears.
Also, incomplete bowel movement and constant urge to defecate make a person emotionally unstable, short-tempered, he has headaches, tinnitus, insomnia, and frequent urination.
If this is due to psychological reasons, then a person should calm down and return to the usual order, as all the symptoms pass without a trace. In this case, special treatment is not required.
Incomplete bowel movement: symptoms
But there are times when a person suffers from incomplete bowel movement 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 feces.
- Diarrhea, and mucus is also present in the feces.
- Feeling of a full intestine.
- Heaviness in the stomach.
- Pain in the abdomen (usually on the right).
- False urge to defecate, and the stomach characteristically "twists".
- A feeling of dissatisfaction after the act of defecation, it seems that I want more, but it does not work out.
- A rumbling in the intestine, which is observed constantly, regardless of food intake.
- Blood in feces in a small amount.
In rare cases, overall health is disturbed, insomnia, weakness and aches in the body, soreness in the back are present.
Symptoms are not always present all at once. For each person, they manifest themselves in different ways. If a person has such symptoms, he should immediately consult a doctor. The specialist will prescribe certain studies in order to correctly establish the diagnosis. How to get rid of the feeling of incomplete bowel movement? 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 bowel movement 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, leading to increased gas formation. An effective diagnosis requires a strict diet. Perhaps then the feeling of incomplete bowel movement will pass without any medication. Consider its basic principles:
- Exclusion is subject to products harmful to the intestines, namely those that provoke gases (all types of flour products, cabbage).
- Antibiotics, laxatives are unacceptable to take, and generally it is better not to take anything before the examination, then the diagnosis will be as accurate as possible.
- You need to eat fiber in large quantities in order to establish the intestines (bran, fresh vegetables and fruits). Oatmeal for breakfast may well help. Porridge needs to be well cooked, then it will envelop the intestines, which will positively affect its condition.
- All dishes must be baked or steamed, but in no case frying.
- To help eat small meals, but often.
- It is not recommended to drink tea, alcohol, coffee, as well as any kind 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 is frequent false urge to defecate.
Diagnosis of incomplete emptying syndrome
So, the diet is prescribed, observed in full, but discomfort is still present. Irritable bowel syndrome and incomplete emptying does not go anywhere. In this case, the patient must undergo the examinations prescribed by the doctor:
- it is necessary to pass stool (to identify possible parasites, to study the microorganisms that inhabit the intestines), its physical and chemical characteristics are of great importance;
- carry out bacteriological culture to determine infection in the intestine;
- blood is examined for biochemistry;
- an irrigoscopy or 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;
- conduct sigmoidoscopy (with the help of an endoscope, examine the digestive tract).
Before carrying out all procedures, the patient is specially prepared. They make an enema to free the intestines from feces. If necessary, they are anesthetized, especially for an unpleasant procedure such as colonoscopy.
Such an integrated approach will help to identify abnormalities and establish an accurate diagnosis. After which a certain treatment is already prescribed. It must be understood that incomplete bowel movement (the reasons we considered) is not a sentence.
Medication treatment
Taking certain drugs will help smooth out unpleasant symptoms.
Firstly, it is necessary to get rid of gas formation in the intestines. For this, they use probiotics, agents enriched with enzymes that improve the process of digesting food and assimilating nutrients. The normal microflora in the intestines is well preserved by special preparations with bacteria and acids. These include "Khilak Forte", "Linex", "Bifidumbacterin." It is imperative to enrich your diet with lactic acid products. Especially effective for incomplete bowel movements are kefir, fermented baked milk, yogurt, as well as various live yoghurts.
Secondly, if there is a tendency to diarrhea, then it will be advisable to use drugs that have a fixing effect. These include Smecta, Loperamide. It’s 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 auxiliary means, alternative methods of treating diarrhea can be used. Eat, for example, millet porridge or drink decoctions of herbs (oak bark, St. John's wort, elderberry). Then the patient will not be pursued by a feeling of incomplete bowel movement.
Thirdly, if a person is tormented by constant constipation, you can not do without drugs. These are special prokinetics. For example, Dufalac, Motilium, Mukofalk, Sennade. Beetroot juice and prunes have proven themselves well as folk remedies.
You need to take any medicine only after consulting a doctor. Even if we are talking about drugs with beneficial bacteria in the composition.
Antispasmodics for pain
With severe pain in the intestines, it is necessary to take antispasmodics. The most famous are “No-Shpa”, “Papaverine”, the preparation “Espumisan” removes gases. Herbal infusions (chamomile, mint, dill water) have long been used to get rid of intestinal colic. In case of pain and gas, you can’t do without a special diet, because if you do not stop eating harmful products, there will be no sense. A feeling of fullness in the stomach will be present.
What to eat?
The following products are very soothing to the intestines:
- crackers;
- jelly;
- blueberries;
- strong tea.
Using them regularly, you can get rid of bouts of pain during bowel movements.
The effectiveness of psychotherapy
If you constantly have a feeling of incomplete bowel movement, 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 one cannot do without it, since in 70% of cases the psyche is to blame for the development of this ailment. It turns out a kind of vicious circle: the patient has problems with the act of defecation, he fixates on them, as a result, they appear twice as often. You can get rid of this syndrome yourself, but it will take time, willpower and the ability to escape 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 several sessions, and they will feel better, while others will not be enough for a dozen.
Conclusion
Decisive people should less focus on themselves and their well-being. Communicate more with people around you, get the maximum positive emotions. Perhaps then the feeling of incomplete bowel movement after defecation will pass by itself. If not, do not hesitate - go to the doctor!