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What Causes Chronic Constipation And Abdominal Pain?

my father-in-law has had issues last 3 weeks with his bowel movements. he has been told he has impacted bowels and just given pills , enema and saline solution. He has not had any relief except small release of diarrhea. He hasn t ate anything substantial in almost 3 weeks, he has no energy because of this . His stomach pain is severe. he has been in emergency all day. They have only done an x-ray. Should they be checking him for any tears? Both his father and grandmother had stomach cancer.
Thu, 12 Oct 2017
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Since he has a History of Cancer, there could be possiblity of excess amount of polyps (>100) which could have caused the constipation. So biopsy can be done and a rectoscopy.
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What Causes Chronic Constipation And Abdominal Pain?

Since he has a History of Cancer, there could be possiblity of excess amount of polyps ( 100) which could have caused the constipation. So biopsy can be done and a rectoscopy.