| This page tells you about the bowel and how factors such as diet and medication can affect your bowel movements. |
| Patients with encephalopathy require a low-protein diet and enough lactulose to produce three or four bowel movements daily. |
| Enemas are also used in cases of fecal impaction, when a large mass of stool in the intestine prevents bowel movements from occurring. |
| To avoid this pain, they try to stop bowel movements from happening, often by squeezing their bum together and standing very straight. |
| A careful history focusing on the nature of the pain and its relationship to bowel movements frequently provides the diagnosis of pain in the anorectal area. |
| Although changes in frequency of bowel movements and looseness of stools can vary independently of each other, changes usually occur in both. |
