Constipation - Causes and Symptoms

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Definition

Disorder characterized by a scarce or infrequent emission of feces; one can speak of constipation only in the presence of a delay of more than three days in the emission of abnormally dehydrated stools

Possible Causes * of Constipation

• amebiasis
• Amyloidosis
• Nervous anorexia
• Beriberi
• Botulism
• Colon cancer
• Renal colic
• Colitis
• Spastic colitis
• Diverticulitis
• diverticulosis
• Endometriosis
• Abdominal hernia
• Yellow fever
• Pheochromocytoma
• Uterine fibroids
• Giardiasis
• Genital herpes
• Food intolerance
• Hypothyroidism
• Jet lag
• Venereal lymphogranuloma
• liposarcoma
• Chagas disease
• Toxic megacolon
• Multiple myeloma
• myelopathy
• Hashimoto's disease
• Hirschsprung disease
• Parkinson's disease
• Diabetic neuropathy
• Bowel obstruction
• Polio
• Intestinal polyps
• Porphyria
• proctitis
• Irritable bowel syndrome
• Tropical sprue
• Pyloric stenosis
• Constipation
• Tetanus
• Typhus
• Adjoining twist
• Colorectal cancer
• Anus tumor
• Neurological bladder