Determine a suitable defecation time (preferably in the morning), and go to the toilet on time regardless of whether you defecate or not. As long as it persists for a long time, it will form a conditioned reflex of regular defecation.

Step 2 adjust your diet

The elderly should eat more foods containing more cellulose, such as coarse flour, brown rice, corn, celery, leek, spinach, fruit, etc., to increase dietary fiber and stimulate and promote intestinal peristalsis. Sesame and walnut kernels have the function of moistening intestines, and the elderly can also eat more appropriately.

3. Drink plenty of water properly

It is best for the elderly to drink a cup of warm water or honey water on an empty stomach every morning to increase intestinal peristalsis and promote defecation. Old people should also drink more water at ordinary times, and don't wait until they are thirsty.

4. Appropriate participation in sports.

The elderly should take part in sports, especially abdominal muscle exercise, to strengthen abdominal muscle strength, promote intestinal peristalsis and improve defecation ability. For the elderly who have been bedridden for a long time due to illness, their families can give them abdominal massage and gently push them from the right upper abdomen to the left lower abdomen to promote their intestinal peristalsis.

Step 5 stay optimistic

Negative emotions such as mental stress and anxiety can lead to or aggravate constipation. Therefore, the elderly should always be in a happy mood, and don't get angry easily to avoid constipation.

6, drug treatment can be carried out.

When the elderly have difficulty defecating, they can use drugs to help defecate. You can take paraffin oil, Maren Runchang pills, Niuhuang Jiedu tablets, lactulose and so on. Take it orally, or drink it with senna leaf, or put kaisai dew or glycerin suppository into anus, or enema with soapy water. Elderly constipation patients with insufficient middle qi can take Buzhong Yiqi Pill appropriately. However, it should be noted that elderly people who are often constipated should not use drugs for a long time to induce diarrhea, so as not to form dependence, thus reducing intestinal peristalsis and aggravating constipation.

In addition, some folk remedies can also treat constipation with good results. For example:

1. Take a spoonful of sesame oil with warm boiled water every morning on an empty stomach.

2. Take 250 ml of milk, then add 60 g of honey, stir well, add a few drops of onion juice and take it on an empty stomach every morning.

3. Take a proper amount of potatoes, wash them, squeeze out the juice with a juicer, and drink them twice a day, half a cup each time, once on an empty stomach in the morning and once after lunch.

4. Take 1 ~ 2 fresh figs and eat them every night before going to bed.

5. Take pine nuts 15g once a day (both raw and cooked).