Constipation Causes
December 21st, 2007 | by admin |If secondary causes can be excluded, most patients are found to have idiopathic constipation, which is functional and essentially a colorectal motility disorder. At least two subtypes have been recognized by the help of oxygen based colon cleanser, although there is overlap between them:* Slow-transit constipation is characterized by a delay in the transit of food residues through the colon.* Obstructive defecation is characterized by difficulty or inability to expel stool from the rectosigmoid region.Some patients with obstructive defecation also have prolonged colonic transit, and there may be a third subtype involving patients with irritable bowel syndrome who have constipation alternating with diarrhea.
