{"id":1269,"date":"2022-02-25T11:52:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T16:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fisiofem.me\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2022-02-25T12:02:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T17:02:09","slug":"por-que-no-debemos-aguantar-las-ganas-de-defecar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fisioparalamujer.com\/en\/por-que-no-debemos-aguantar-las-ganas-de-defecar\/","title":{"rendered":"Why should we not hold the urge to defecate?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our body is pure wisdom, when we feel like going to the bathroom it is warning us that the rectum is full and must evacuate, but many times we ignore what the body tells us, we do not give ourselves the necessary time slots daily for our basic needs!<\/h2>

It turns out that if we respond to this notice: \"I'm at work, I prefer to do it at home\" or \"I'm busy, when I'm free I go to the bathroom\", what happens is that the feces that are waiting to be evacuated begin to dry, to become harder and we don't know when the next physiological warning will be for us to go to the bathroom, more feces will arrive, the fecal bolus will get bigger and our body will warn. Every time we postpone going to the bathroom, it will be an order for our brain, you are telling it: \"I can, calm down, don't tell me so often\" and then you will feel less desire each time to enter the bathroom. You see it? It is a ball and not exactly snow that is growing and worsening the problem, until it becomes constipation, a GREAT enemy of our pelvic floor.<\/p>

You will wonder how often we should go to the bathroom to defecate, it is between once or twice a day. This is normal. When this is not the case, we are hurting the musculature of our perineum, we are putting it to work with a greater load, not to mention that probably, if you have constipation, it will hurt to enter the bathroom, there could be bleeding, and you will feel the need to push to evacuate what will damage the pelvic floor if done frequently.<\/p>\n\n

Also, if your case is constipation, I recommend: <\/p>\n\n