Posts Tagged ‘Bowel Movements’
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High Fiber Foods
Fiber offers many nutritional benefits for one’s health such as helping your bowels to function properly, regulating weight, and providing relief for a variety of gastrointestinal symptoms. Check out our recommendations for adding high fiber foods to your diet plus learn about the function of the colon, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, diverticulosis, colon polyps, and colon cleansing supplements.
Constipation in Children
Did you know the symptoms and effects of constipation in children can practically mirror those of adults? Learn more about diet for childhood constipation, preventative tips for child constipation, plus how junk food and a sedentary lifestyle function as the building blocks of poor health.
Constipation Diagnosis
Constipation diagnosis methods can vary significantly from one situation to the next depending upon the unique characteristics of the patient’s health. Diagnosing constipation may involve: taking a medical history, physical examination, colorectal transit study, anorectal function tests, barium enema x-ray, or a sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy. Learn more about determining the causes and treatment of chronic constipation using these different approaches.
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Definition of Constipation
The definition of constipation is simply the inability to have a regular bowel movement, having fewer than three bowel movements per week, or production of hard, dry bowel movements. Constipation can be quite painful. Learn more about symptoms of chronic constipation plus methods for relieving it.
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Stress and Constipation
Stress and constipation often go hand in hand. Learn about the causes and dangers of stress and how stress can lead to constipation. Includes details on fighting stress and reducing your constipation.
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