In our Proctology OPD, almost 30-40 % of patients are coming with the history of Irregular Bowel Habits, like sometimes hard and sometimes loose stool, sometimes constipation and sometimes increased frequency, long time stay in toilets and feeling of un emptiness of bowel. There is not any organic cause detected. Many times Anxiolytics helps. Can it be due to increasing mental stress?
It is presumable that lifestyle may play a relevant role. The need to dedicate a short time to the defecation, he poor use of fibers in the diet, an insufficient water intake and the lack of physical activity may play a role in functional bowel disorders. Often, they may improve only by changes in life habits.
In India I think intake of fiber is sufficient as most of the population mainly depends on vegetarian diet. I just want to make clear that whether mental stress can give rise to alteration in bowel habits ?
As you know, fibers alone poorly work without water intake. Often, stress induces to dedicate to the defecation process an insufficient time, due to the fact that a hard day's work is about to begin. Day by day, this could change bowel habits.
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