What is the Constipation, its symptoms and its causes?

Constipation is difficult to define because it is a huge problem subject to individual variability or, which is, to a great subjectivity so that you can understand how a depositional rate normal. We understand as depositional rate, the frequency with which we went to the service to evacuate. In the general healthy population, the depositional rate ranges from 3 times a day and 3 times a week, making defecation painlessly and effortlessly in most cases, in addition to having to end the feeling of complete evacuation.

Constipation is not a disease as such but rather a symptom that, given its enormous frequency, raises a number of visits to the family doctor and in the worst case the digestive specialist. It is important to know that constipation also may be a consequence of a disease or condition such as thyroid problems with liver, gallbladder, menopause, pregnancy and bowel obstruction. When constipation becomes chronic, predisposes the onset of rheumatism, arthritis, hypertension and even cancer as it spreads through the bloodstream, toxins throughout the body.

Symptoms of Constipation

The main symptoms of constipation are:

• Pain and difficulty evacuating
• Abdominal swelling
• Dry, hard stools
• Infrequent bowel movements (once every 4 days or more)

What are the causes of constipation?

• As we mentioned above, one must distinguish occasional constipation, certain diet product, food or habit, chronic constipation is to require a study by the medical practitioner. It is necessary to note that normally play in unleashing multiple factors and is difficult to establish which one is more important.
• Traditionally established pathological groups can produce constipation, such as, functional problems or bowel motility, idiopathic constipation, Hirsch sprung disease.
• Specific diseases that present with constipation: Metabolic diseases such as diabetes, hypothyroidism, uremia, porphyria.
• Mechanical obstacles in the defecation: tumors, rectal stricture.
• Iatrogenic or drug side effects: Codeine, Antacids.
• Abdominal plain film.
•  Diet low in fiber
• Certain social habits, cultural, emotional, Physical inactivity, and depression.

• In many cases, constipation is the only symptom, but sometimes is accompanied with other secondary symptoms such as bloating, abdominal swelling, bloating, mild abdominal discomfort, headache, etc...

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The blood pressure

Simply we can say the pressure of the blood within the arteries is known as blood pressure. It is produced primarily by the contraction of the heart muscle. Blood pressure is the result of the heart qu'insuffle pressure by pushing the blood and the resistance of the vessel wall. Blood pressure is an important metric to evaluate the cardiac and circulatory functions. It changes from a variety of disorders. These include cardiac, renal and endocrine disorders. And acute conditions such as infections may be accompanied by a temporary change in blood pressure.

We can understand it with the help of a example: just suppose, setting a pump at the end of a pipe and which is sent a fluid under pressure, depending on the nature of the pipe, the pressure will not be the same on the inside. If the pipe is rigid, the pressure will be high and the liquid will pass very quickly, but with turbulence. If the pipe is elastic, the pressure will be less useful to push because the pipe will expand a little and let more liquid, just about as much flow. Turbulence will be offset by the elastic walls of the vessel. If the hose is too soft, it will expand greatly, it will become too big for the flow, turbulence will again appear. The flow will be poor areas with stagnant liquid.

In the body, the heart attempts to ensure a flow. He must find a useful function of pressure vessel elasticity. With rigid vessels, small caliber narrowed because it will force pushing hard and will wear prematurely. With vessels too soft, it will have to beat faster as incapable of providing a pressure in these vessels. In addition, because of stagnation, there will be a tendency to clot and therefore embolism. This is the problem of varicose veins and states of shock or blood volume can no longer perform under pressure arteries.

With normal elastic arteries, the heart will not have to push too hard or too fast beat. He does not get tired. Blood pressure gives two figures, the maxima and minima or the systolic (contraction of the heart and diastolic (relaxation of the heart).

When the heart grows, the maximum voltage that can give to overcome an obstacle, the blood pressure cuff inflated, is given by the systolic, then it creates turbulence as the passage for the blood is insufficient. The cuff is deflated, the flow is reduced and turbulence disappear, the flow is laminar, it is called diastolic pressure. The stethoscope, the systolic corresponds to the phase or the blood arrives to overcome the resistance of the cuff means turbulence in the form of the shock wave of the heartbeat. The diastolic a lower voltage which corresponds to flow without turbulence passing under the cuff, a stethoscope, the sounds of shock wave pulse disappeared, which is not to say that the blood does not circulate, but it starts seriously slow.

Schematically systolic must be less than 16 and the diastolic must be less than half of 15 plus 1 point. In practice, apart from any illness (fever, diarrhea, shock ...) more voltage, the lower the life expectancy is high. For diastolic, the important thing is not whether half of the systolic plus 1 point, but there is a wide gap between systolic and diastolic, as it is this difference that allows large flow and therefore perfusion of the body tissues.

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