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interference with bowel motility:
pregnancy, hypothyroidism, hypercalcemia. |
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| metabolic conditions that affect constipation. |
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nerologic disorder that affect the interference with autonomic innervention of the bowel.
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| spinal cord injuries, multiple sclerosis, Hirschsprung's disease, and other conditions. |
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this condition causes constipation:
fatigue, anhedonia, sleep disturbance, weight loss. |
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Definition
| depression: a disorder of mood. |
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| Opiates, anticholinergics, antacids containing calcium and aluminum, and many others. |
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| drugs that cause constipation. |
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pain may cause spasm of the external spinchter and voluntary inhibition of the defecation reflux.
CAUSING CONSTIPATION. |
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Painful anal lesions causing constipation.
anal fissures, painful hemorrhoids, perirectal abscesses. |
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colicky abdominal pain, abdominal distention, and intussusception, often "currant jelly" stools (red blood and mucus)
narrowing or complete obstruction of the bowel.
CAUSING CONSTIPATION |
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Definition
Other obstructing lesions (such as diverticulitis, volvulus, intussusception, or hernia).
cuasing CONSTIPATION. |
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Term
A large, firm, immovable fecal mass, most often in the rectum.
rectal fullness, abdominal pain, and diarrhea around impaction, common in debilitated, bedridden, and often elderly patients. |
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Definition
| Fecal impation causing CONSTIPATION. |
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| progressive narrowing of the bowel lumen. change in bowel habits; often diarrhea, abdominal pain, and bleeding. in rectal cancer, tenesmus and pencil shaped stools. |
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Definition
Mechanical Obstruction!
cancer of the rectum or sigmoid colon |
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change in freqency or form of bowel movement without structural or cheminal abnormality.
small, hard stools, often with mucous; periods of diarrhea, intermittent pain for 12 weeks of preceeding 12 months, relieved by defectation, stress may aggrivate. |
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Definition
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decreased fecal bulk.
other factors such as debiliation and constipating drugs may contribute.
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Definition
| diet deficient in fiber causing constipation |
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expecations of regularity or more frequent stools than a persons norm.
beliefs, treatments, and advertisements that promotes the use of laxatives.
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False expectations of bowel habits that cause CONSTIPATON!!
LOL!! |
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Term
Ignornig the sensation of a full rectum inhibits the defecation reflux.
hectic schedules, unfamilliar surrounds, best rest aggrivate this. |
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Definition
| inaqequate time or setting for the defecation reflex causes CONSTIPATION. |
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