What to do if you can't poop

If you have difficulty defecating, you need to adjust your lifestyle to improve the symptoms. If the symptoms do not improve, you need to take medication or undergo surgery to treat it.

1. Improve your lifestyle: Having trouble defecating may be due to slower gastrointestinal motility and constipation. You need to eat more fresh vegetables, fruits and cereals to supplement the dietary fiber needed by your intestines, stimulate gastrointestinal motility and facilitate the discharge of soft stools.

2. Taking medication: If the symptoms of constipation do not improve after adjusting your lifestyle, you need to go to the hospital for a colonoscopy in time. If necessary, you can take solvent laxatives under the guidance of a doctor, including wheat cellulose and calcium polycarbophil, or take lactulose or polyethylene glycol.

3. Surgery: If you have constipation and the symptoms do not improve after taking medication, you only need surgery to treat it. Before the operation, you need to understand the severity of the anal and rectal abnormalities, and then treat it with stapler loop resection or transabdominal rectal suspension. Complications are prone to occur after the operation, so you need to rest properly after the operation and be given a liquid diet to reduce intestinal irritation and avoid the occurrence of complications.