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- Struggling to have a bowel movement
- Reluctant to have a bowel movement
- Constipation
- Thin ribbon like stool
- Absence of intestinal noise
- Vomiting
- Signs of abdominal pain
- Abdominal distention
- Weight loss
- Lack of appetite
- Palpable lump of unpassed fecal matter in the abdomen
- Mechanical – blockage created by physical obstruction
- Functional – nerve failure or weakness in the bowel muscles
- Difficult to digest material (such as bone or hair)
- Not drinking enough water
- Foreign body
- Tumor
- Stricture – constricted or thickened band of intestinal muscles
- Recent surgery
- Poorly healed fracture
- Enlarged prostate gland
- Drugs including opioids and antihistamines
- Poisoning
- Metabolic disorder - hypothyroidism, hypokalemia, and hypercalcemia
- Dysautonomia – neural degeneration disease
- Lesion on the spinal cord
- Idiopathic (unknown cause)
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