How to treat constipation in late pregnancy

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My sister-in-law is in her thirties this year. According to her, constipation has been bothering her ever since she was pregnant with a baby. She has taken a lot of drugs that are said to be very effective in treating constipation, but there is no useful effect for her. Many people say that eating bananas is good for constipation patients, but even if she eats bananas every day, it still has no effect, so she went to the hospital to consult the doctor. Let's take a look at the following.

How to treat constipation in late pregnancy

First: if you want to treat constipation, first of all, you should pay attention to life treatment, adopt reasonable eating habits, such as increasing the content of dietary fiber, increasing the amount of drinking water to strengthen the stimulation to the colon, and develop good defecation habits, such as getting up in the morning to defecate, defecate intentionally and defecate in time, so as to avoid forced defecation.

Second: constipation is mainly divided into two types, one is empirical constipation, the other is called deficiency constipation. The specific symptoms of empirical constipation are body dryness and heat, upset and thirst, dry mouth and bad breath, pain in both ribs and yellow tongue coating. Constipation in this condition is related to stomach fire, liver fire and other factors.

Third: the specific symptoms of deficiency type constipation are pale complexion, fatigue, dizziness, palpitation, sweating, shortness of breath, thin white tongue coating and cold hands and feet. This kind of symptoms is deficiency type constipation. This type of constipation is related to weak Qi and blood, cold evil invading intestines and stomach and other factors.

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Acupuncture can be used to treat empirical constipation. Tianshu point is the large intestine Mu point of human body, which can dredge the Qi of large intestine and relieve constipation. At the same time, Zhigou point can vent the Qi of Sanjiao and regulate the Qi of viscera. Quchi point can help human body clear away heat and fire, and Neiting point is the point on stomach meridian of Foot Yangming, which can help human body clear away stomach fire.