You should visit your family Doctor if you experience a recent, unexplained onset of Constipation or change in bowel habits, or any of the following signs or symptoms, which might indicate a more serious health condition:
• Blood in stool
• Intense abdominal pain
• Bowel movements just once or twice a week, despite corrective changes in diet or exercise
• Thin, pencil-like stools
• Unexplained weight loss
• Rectal pain
• Constipation that alternates with Diarrhoea