Overeating is not advisable, to avoid intestinal obstruction. Intestinal obstruction, a word that often appears in newspaper headlines recently. What is intestinal obstruction? In fact, intestinal obstruction is a kind of disease, intestinal contents can not run normally, smoothly through the intestine, it is called intestinal obstruction. Sun Yixian, associate professor of gastrointestinal surgery at Memorial Hospital of Zhongshan University, Zhu Zhonghua, said this is a common surgical disease, especially incidence rate in the elderly. Although obstruction can cause serious systemic reactions, most intestinal obstruction can be completely cured as long as timely diagnosis and active treatment.
Be alert for the following symptoms
Although the incidence rate of intestinal obstruction is high, many people still do not understand it. They feel abdominal pain, bloating, nausea and vomiting. They often go to the internal medicine department first. I was surprised to hear that I needed surgical treatment and had to go to surgery. Associate Professor Chu Zhonghua said: 'once this disease is diagnosed, most patients should be operated on immediately to remove obstruction as soon as possible, so as to restore normal intestinal function. If the time is delayed, it will cause intestinal necrosis, intestinal perforation, peritonitis, toxic shock, and even life-threatening. '
Associate Professor Chu Zhonghua said that if the following specific symptoms appear, then it is necessary to consider whether the bowel is blocked---
(1) Colic. Paroxysmal colic, pain in the middle of the abdomen, can also be partial to the location of obstruction. Abdominal pain attack accompanied by bowel sounds, conscious of a 'gas block' in the abdomen, and blocked in a certain part. When you have time to look at the surface of the abdomen, you can see the shape of sausage like intestines and the waveform of intestinal peristalsis.
(2) Vomiting. In the early stage of intestinal obstruction, patients will have reflexive vomiting, vomiting after eating or drinking water. If vomiting occurs early and frequently, it may be high intestinal obstruction. Conversely, if it appears late, vomit less, vomit things like feces, then it may be low intestinal obstruction.
(3) Abdominal distension. The degree of abdominal distension is related to the location of obstruction. Abdominal distension was not obvious in high intestinal obstruction, but significant in low intestinal obstruction and paralytic intestinal obstruction. If the abdominal bulge is uneven and symmetrical, it is the characteristic of closed loop intestinal obstruction such as volvulus.
(4) No exhaust, no defecation. However, in the early stage of obstruction, especially in high intestinal obstruction, the feces and gas remaining in the intestine below the obstruction can still be discharged by themselves or after enema.
The incidence rate of the elderly is high.
In autumn, the persimmon market, love to eat persimmon aunt Liang eat 6. About 5 hours later, aunt Liang suddenly felt abdominal pain, abdominal distension, was sent to the hospital emergency. The doctor diagnosed as acute intestinal obstruction, need immediate surgical treatment. According to Associate Professor Chu Zhonghua, many elderly people are admitted to the emergency department recently because of acute intestinal obstruction.
Because of the degenerative changes of various organs in the whole body, the intestinal function of the elderly is low, and the intestinal digestion, absorption, secretion, forward and backward peristalsis and other functions are easy to be disordered. Generally, the food that adult men can digest may not be easily digested in the gastrointestinal tract of the elderly. These incompletely digested masses can be successfully discharged in adult men, but may not be discharged in the elderly, thus blocking the intestinal cavity and causing intestinal obstruction. Chu Zhonghua said: "the elderly have decreased secretion of intestinal digestive fluid, coupled with weak intestinal peristalsis. They often have habitual constipation, and the accumulation of food residues into faeces can also cause intestinal obstruction. In addition, the secretion and peristalsis of gastrointestinal tract are further reduced in the elderly with other disease viruses, which is also a factor inducing life food intestinal obstruction.
It is understood that intestinal obstruction can be roughly divided into three types: first, mechanical intestinal obstruction; second, dynamic intestinal obstruction; third, vascular intestinal obstruction. More than 90% of acute intestinal obstruction belongs to mechanical intestinal obstruction, which is mostly caused by excessive diet and dyspepsia. Its typical symptoms are abdominal paroxysmal colic, nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension, constipation, anal stop exhaust (i.e. unable to fart), etc.
Associate Professor Chu Zhonghua said that after the formation of elderly life food intestinal obstruction, it is difficult to remove the obstruction by conservative treatment, and most of them need surgical treatment. But the operation may bring some new complications, such as the majority of the elderly postoperative intestinal adhesion, leading to adhesive intestinal obstruction. In some cases, the loss of body fluid and electrolytes, blood circulation disturbance and necrosis of intestinal wall and esophageal cancer, secondary infection, etc. may occur, which may eventually lead to toxemia, shock and even death.
Persimmon and hawthorn are easy to induce intestinal diseases
Associate Professor Chu Zhonghua reminded that overeating, intestinal dysfunction is the cause of intestinal obstruction, so the daily diet should pay attention to rich nutrition, easy digestion, a small amount of meals, do not eat more stimulating food, so as to reduce the occurrence of intestinal obstruction.
The elderly should pay special attention not to eat too much peanuts and melon seeds, and eat a lot of persimmon, red bayberry, hawthorn and other foods that lead to intestinal obstruction on an empty stomach. For those who have had intestinal obstruction or have a history of abdominal surgery, especially to strengthen prevention, if usually gastrointestinal dysfunction, can take appropriate Chinese medicine treatment, in order to regulate the gastrointestinal.
Experts also remind middle-aged people not to do strenuous exercise after eating to prevent the occurrence of volvulus. Daily also need to pay attention to food hygiene, unclean diet will not only cause acute gastroenteritis, but also cause intestinal obstruction. If acute gastroenteritis is serious, repeated diarrhea will cause 'paralytic ileus'.