What if there's blood in the stool?

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2025-05-01 15:49:08 Views: 68 times

There are two kinds of blood in stool: the first is bleeding after stool, more common in hemorrhoids, anal fissure and other perianal diseases. At this time, you can do anal digital diagnosis to see if there are hemorrhoids, anal fissure and so on; the second case is mixed blood in stool, if the color of blood is bright red or dark red, more common in lower gastrointestinal bleeding, more common in small intestine bleeding, intestinal typhoid fever, intestinal tuberculosis, colon or rectal polyps, colon or rectal malignant tumors and so on. If the color of blood is black, it is more common in upper gastrointestinal bleeding. The common diseases are gastritis, gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, gastric malignant tumor, esophageal varices bleeding caused by cirrhosis, etc. In this case, it is recommended to improve gastroscopy early. According to the results of the examination, give appropriate early active and standardized treatment.

What if there's blood in the stool?



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