Blood stool, is it hemorrhoids, anal fissure or cancer?
Blood in the stool can originate from any part of the gastrointestinal tract, causing many kinds of diseases, not only hemorrhoid, anal fissure, it may also be a dangerous signal of intestinal health. The causes of blood in the stool are different, the color and state are different, such as dripping blood, spraying blood, blood in the stool; the color may be bright red or dark red, or even shiny black.
Bright red blood generally indicates that the lesion is near to the anus, and the most common case is internal hemorrhoidal bleeding. Internal hemorrhoidal bleeding occurs in constipation or diarrhea, easy to appear after drinking alcohol or eating spicy food, normally it does not accompany with anal pain, the specific performance is dripping blood after defecating or blood on the toilet paper. If there is no significant change in the regularity of daily defecation, the stool is formed, and occasionally there is a painless blood stool once or twice, it is no need to be panic, mostly it can be relieved without special treatment; If it accompanies with anal swelling, itching, pain and other discomfort symptoms, it can be considered as the combination of external hemorrhoid inflammation or edema, symptoms can be relieved by sitz bath and taking pain medicine.
Anal fissure is a common perianal disease, which may accompany with a small amount of blood dripping after defecation, generally it accompanies with relatively severe pain during or after defecation. Anal fistula can also cause repeated purulence, hyperemia, swelling, thermalgia around the anus.
Some rectal cancer can also cause bloody stool as the position of the tumor is very close to the anus. In this case, patients often have significant changes in defecation habits, such as increasing the number of defecation, unformed stool, feeling not discharged well and want to defecate again. If accompanied by these symptoms, it is best to go to the clinic for anal check and anoscopy, through it, may find out whether there is a tumor within 7 cm from the anus.
If you find that your blood is dark-red, then you need to pay high alert, as it often indicates that there are lesions in the intestine.
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