What comes into your mind when we talk about constipation? A subject that is both sensitive and serious. Most of the people who are constipated, they feel ashamed and embarrassed, they normally keep it to themselves and suffer in silence. While many make it a laughing matter.

Anyone can have constipation, both children and adults. So if you have constipation, remember that you are not alone, just reach out for help to tackle the issue before it becomes a serious health problem.

Constipation is a symptom, not a disease. We normally think that constipation is about infrequent bowel movements but that is not all true. Different people may have different bowel movement patterns but below are the constipation conditions that we cited from Wikipedia:

• Less than 3 bowel movements a week
• Straining with bowel movements
• Excessive time needed to pass a bowel movement
• Hard stools
• Pain with bowel movements secondary to straining
• Abdominal pain
• Abdominal bloating
• the sensation of incomplete evacuation

Lack of fluids, dietary fibre and exercise are the common causes of constipation. Furthermore, it can also due to the side effects of medication, hypothyroidism and obstruction by colorectal cancer.

The function of our colon is to absorb fluids and salt from the remains and create solid waste, and prepare for its excretion. When constipation happens, the remains move too slowly through the digestive tract whereby the colon will continue to absorb the water, which causes the stool to become dry, hard and difficult to push out.
When you do not have soft and regular bowel movements, you may face these complications:

• Hemorrhoids – Swollen, inflamed veins in your rectum
• Anal fissures – Tears in the lining of your anus from hardened stool trying to pass through
• Diverticulitis – Infection or inflammation of pouches that form off the colon wall from stool that has become trapped and infected
• Fecal impaction – Large, mass of stool that gets stuck so badly in the colon that cannot be pushed out
• Stress Urinary Incontinence – Hard and compacted stool in the rectum causes the nerves to be overactive and increase urinary frequency

Stressing over constipation is not the solution. When you are not able to have bowel movements for days on end, you will feel bloated, miserable and stressed. Laxatives may seem like the quickest and simplest solution, but be cautious though, it can lead to becoming dependent on them in the long run. The cheapest and safest remedy is plenty of fluids, dietary fibre and exercise.

To improve your bowel movements, you should drink enough water to keep your body hydrated coupled with high fibre food such as fruits, vegetables and whole grains. Filbre holds the water in the bowel so it can mix with the stool and makes it softer. Last but not least, remember to exercise.

Nesh Life Water is made up of smaller molecules than normal drinking water, that is why it can be absorbed by our body very easily. For better bowel movement, you can drink a glass of Nesh Life Water when you wake up in the morning with an empty stomach.

This is how you should drink it, take a sip and keep it in your mouth for a moment, move on to chew it a little just like how you chew your food, then swallow it slowly. By doing so, you can awake the sleeping intestine and stimulate the bowel movement. It can also help dissipate the remnant excreta along the walls of the intestine.