What causes frequent bowel movements?

Frequent bowel movements may be caused by bacterial infection. Eating some potentially contaminated food, or being too greedy for coolness in the summer and liking cold drinks can easily lead to gastrointestinal dysfunction, or cause abdominal pain, diarrhea, and frequent bowel movements.

1. Bacterial infection: People may develop enteritis or bacillary dysentery after eating food contaminated by bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Salmonella, Shigella, or drinking beverages contaminated by bacteria, and may experience varying degrees of abdominal pain, diarrhea, and vomiting.

2. Eating cold food: In summer, many people like to eat cold food and drink cold beer, which can result in gastrointestinal dysfunction, accelerated intestinal motility, and diarrhea.

3. Viral infection: When the human body is infected with various viruses through food or other means, it is easy to cause viral diarrhea, such as infection with rotavirus and norovirus, which can cause symptoms such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, fever and general discomfort.

4. Food poisoning: an acute toxic disease caused by eating food contaminated by bacteria and their toxins, or eating uncooked lentils, etc. It is characterized by acute gastrointestinal symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and fever in patients.

5. Indigestion: irregular eating, overeating, eating indigestible food, or food retention in the stomach due to insufficient gastric motility, causing symptoms such as abdominal distension, diarrhea, nausea, acid reflux, heartburn, and belching.