老年知识分子由于长期缺乏运动等原因,便秘的发病率很高。便秘对老人的健康危害极大。长期便秘,大便中有害物质不能及时排出,被重新吸收入血,会引起恶心口臭、头昏乏力等“自身中毒”症状和痔疮、肛裂等并发症。而且便秘对高血压、冠心病、哮喘等患者,危害更大,在排便用力时可突然死亡。便秘分为器质性 Elderly intellectuals due to long-term lack of exercise and other reasons, the incidence of constipation is high. Constipation is extremely harmful to the health of the elderly. Long-term constipation, harmful substances in the stool can not be discharged in time, be reabsorbed into the blood, can cause nausea and bad breath, dizziness and fatigue and other “poisoning” symptoms and hemorrhoids, anal fissure and other complications. And constipation on the high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, asthma and other patients, more harmful, can suddenly died of defecation. Constipation is divided into organic