Do You Have These Constipation Symptoms?

By: Rudy Silva, Natural Nutritionist

Learn and discover some of the constipation symptoms that you will have when constipated. One obvious constipation symptom is that you have no bowel movements. When you eat food it should take a maximum of about 24 hours to travel through you. If you become constipated, the urge to have a bowel movement will stop. After a few days or a week, you will start to experience a host of different symptoms. You many have a distended stomach or your stools will be hard, short and do not float. Other constipation symptoms are: Difficulty passing stools –Normally when you sit to have a bowel movement, it takes only 4 or less minutes to have one. Having to strain to have a bowel movement is a major constipation symptom. Decreased frequency of bowel movements – When you have constipation, this is another major symptom. Once your stools are stuck in your colon, the colon gets tired of trying to move hard dried stools out of your body and just gives up if the stools don’t move. Tender stomach or bloating – If your stools stay in one place in your colon or are moving slowly through your colon then those areas where your stools reside, in your colon, become sensitive.

source of constant flatulence.

Flatulence – Stools that stay in your colon for days tend to outgas. So the stools will be a

Little desire to eat – If you have stagnant stools in the colon, your body will protect you by not activating the desire to eat. Eating while constipated will cause more dry stools, bloating, and flatulence. Feeling out of sorts as though you are getting sick – When you are constipated, stools or fecal matter that stays in your colon too long and start to cause gas. Some of the gas comes out as flatulence and some of the gas moves through the colon walls spreading toxic matter into your blood stream. Stagnant stools in the colon are a source of poisons for your body, giving you a feeling “not feeling well”

There are few things that you should do so that you can get rid of your constipation and the constipation symptoms. If your stools are not moving and you have not had a bowel movement for a few days, the first thing you want to do is to have a bowel movement to get things moving again. One good natural remedy is using Oxypowder. Using these capsules will move any stagnant stools and start to clean out any fecal matter that remains stuck to your colon walls. Then, you need to start taking a good supplement of omega-3 oil. This can be fish oil or flax seed oil. You need to use from 1000 to 1500 mg per day. You can use both, but by using fish oil you by pass one step that is necessary to convert flax seed oil into the chemicals that fish oil have. The next thing to do is drink a little more water to soften your hard stools. You don’t have to over do it with water. Just test and drink more and more water until your stools are softer. Finally, you want to add some fiber to you diet. When you don’t eat enough fiber you will become constipated and one constipation symptom is hard stools. When you have enough fiber in your diet your stools will be semi soft since fiber attracts and holds water into your stools.

Look for these constipation symptoms to tell you that you have constipation. You can usually tell if you are constipated. You don’t need a doctor or anyone else to tell you that you’re not having enough bowel movement. If you don’t have enough bowel movements, you will start to feel uneasy and sick.