Why is it important for a SWS patient not to have a seizure lasting longer than 5 minutes? Prolonged seizures (considered to be anything lasting more than 5 minutes) may result in injury to normal or functioning neurons. For this reason, 5 minutes an arbitrary but reasonable time limit.
If you haven't pooped for weeks, you might have an impacted bowel, which is a medical condition that needs to be attended to by your healthcare provider. If you haven't pooped for weeks, you might have an impacted bowel, which is a medical condition that needs to be attended to by your healthcare provider.
1 If you haven't had a bowel movement (poop) for a while or if it hurts to go to the bathroom or your bowel movements are hard, you are probably constipated.  Diarrhea is often caused by an infection that some people call the stomach flu.. Doctors call this type of diarrhea/infection gastroenteritis.