Isolation of blood from the anus can be a sign of dangerous and serious bowel disease. So each such precedent is obliged to alert both the patient and his doctor. Even if after some time the blood flow ends, this does not mean that the disease is gone. After some time, similar symptoms recur again, and the disease can quickly go into an advanced stage. So, what does the allocation of blood clots from the anus mean?
Determination of bleeding by color of blood
Bleeding can be observed from any part of the digestive system. Therefore, the higher the organ (stomach or esophagus), the blood will be darker. When the source of bleeding is located in the lower gastrointestinal tract, such discharge from the anus becomes red.
Blood becomes brown or black under the influence of the reaction of digestive enzymes, but with diarrhea this aspect is disturbed. With the fast work of the intestines, the discharge may not be colored red, but may acquire a darker shade. In this case, even a stomach ulcer or gastritis can cause a symptom such as blood from the anus.
Let us consider in more detail the possible causes of this phenomenon.
Hemorrhoids
At the head of the list of causes of the development of this disease is varicose veins of the rectum. Bleeding becomes more noticeable after going to the toilet in the form of insignificant drops of red-scarlet blood on the stool, on toilet paper, in the toilet or on underwear. Much less often, it stands out from the anus strongly and abundantly, so that it can stain the entire toilet. This can happen when a node breaks. This is a very common factor that provokes the release of blood from the anus. This reason is quite serious.
The source may be fecal damage to the hemorrhoid cones in case of constipation. The allocation of drops of blood can happen when the patient is very hard during diarrhea. However, he may experience discomfort. With hemorrhoids from the anus, it can scare the patient, but with such phenomena pain usually does not occur. The pain itself is felt mainly when such a pathology is accompanied by a crack in the anus or paraproctitis. Small, but constant bleeding, by the way, can be the cause of the development of anemia in the patient. In this case, blood from the anus during bowel movement is observed every time.
In the neglected form of the disease, hemorrhoid cones can become large and injured. In this case, the disease begins to be accompanied by inflammation. For this reason, patients can often notice the appearance of blood on toilet paper. In case of hemorrhoids, it is necessary to undergo treatment on time.
What else can trigger the release of blood clots from the anus?
Rectal fissures
The pathology of the mucous membrane of the lower part of the intestine occurs from an excessive immunity of the intestinal walls by massive feces. Scarlet blood comes out of the anus with each act of defecation, or somewhat later after it. It can be seen on toilet paper, on feces and on underwear. In this case, the patient feels acute pain in the anus. Often, drops of blood can occur when straining during constipation, with heavy physical work. A crack can be detected if there is blood from the anus during bowel movement and pain, but there are no hemorrhoidal cones. There are other signs.
Hemorrhages with cracks and hemorrhoids are mainly not mixed with feces. Mucus may be absent, or it may be observed in small quantities. But what if the spotting is mixed with feces, which contain a large amount of mucus? In this case, tumor intestinal diseases can be detected. They are possible in benign (polyps) and malignant (colon cancer) form. There are other causes of blood from the anus.
Intestinal polyps
Polyps are benign neoplasms that grow on a stalk or are located on a broad base. For a long time, they may not manifest themselves. Rarely, patients have constipation or diarrhea, which may be associated with damage to the intestinal motor activity.
The seriousness of the disease lies in the fact that polyps pass into a cancerous tumor. The upper layer of such neoplasms has the ability to bleed, while there is a release of red blood from the anus. In addition, the larger the polyp itself is, the more easily it is damaged.
Colon cancer
At the beginning of the disease, patients feel discomfort in the intestines, frequent urination, oozing blood from the anus and mucus. In many cases, such discharge appears in small portions. If the disease begins to progress, then this can lead to profuse, profuse bleeding. The patient may be disturbed by frequent constipation, pain in the coccyx and sacrum.
Tumor can be suspected in case of brown discharge mixed with feces containing blood streaks and blood clots.
Blood from the anus in women appears as often as men.
Diverticulosis
With such conditions, sacs are found on the walls of the intestine. It is suggested that such a development of the disease may be associated with weakness of the intestinal wall. In this form, the disease manifests itself at high pressure. Diverticulums tend not to cause unpleasant symptoms in a patient until their inflammation occurs. Unfortunately, this often leads to a breakthrough of the sac, which is expressed by severe pain, fever, intense muscle tension in the lower abdomen.
If the vessels of the mucous membrane of the diverticulum are damaged, then blood begins to flow from the anus. But when the inflammation of the sac occurred in the sigmoid colon, rectal bleeding becomes scarlet. When a pathology of the large intestine is observed, then a discharge of a darkish or even black color can be seen. This is a very dangerous condition that requires immediate surgical intervention.
In this connection, there is blood from the anus in men and women?
Angiodysplasia
In case of growth disorders, an increase in vascular fragility is manifested as a person ages. This is a natural process. Then, in the thickness of the mucosa, enlarged and dilated vessels are observed in the form of small clusters. Bleeding from the anus becomes bright red. Pain is usually absent. However, such bleeding can become quite prolonged.
Bowel infection
The following symptoms allow you to identify a similar pathology:
- temperature rise;
- frequent diarrhea with mucus and blood;
- lethargy;
- vomiting
- nausea.
The basis for this may be various infections: dysentery, salmonellosis, amoebiasis.
Blood may appear from the anus in women and men at any age. The main thing is to recognize the cause in time.
Other causes of bleeding
Among other causes of bleeding from the anus, it is worth highlighting:
- Nonspecific ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. Both of these cases are associated with a change in the human immune system. In this case, discharge from the mucosa may occur. Patients begin to worry about the flow of blood from the anus, frequent intensified abdominal pain and fever. Blood clots, black stools, or diarrhea may be detected.
- Colitis that arose after radiation therapy.
- Mesenteric vascular thrombosis.
- Ischemic colitis - a pathology manifests itself as a result of changes in the blood supply to the intestinal wall.
- Rectal bleeding in women can occur during menstruation in case of intestinal endometriosis.
- The emergence of some types of helminthic invasion.
It is quite difficult to find out the cause of bleeding from the anus independently. After all, such a symptom may suggest conditions in which there is no threat to the patient's life. This is a crack, hemorrhoids. Also, with such symptoms, there may not be a dangerous and serious pathology (diverticulosis, cancer). In addition, several diseases can be detected in the same patients at the same time, for example, hemorrhoids and polyps.
When blood is secreted from the anus in men, representatives of the stronger half consider hemorrhoids to be the reason for this and do not rush to visit a proctologist. Nevertheless, it should be remembered that polyps, as well as other intestinal diseases, can turn into a cancerous tumor. Therefore, you need to be examined on time. It will not be superfluous to make sure that you do not have a dangerous disease.
Treatment
Bleeding from the anus is not a disease, but a symptom. Therefore, the attitude towards him should be very, very attentive. In some cases, the patient cannot independently determine what caused this phenomenon, thereby he will not be able to choose the right treatment.
Is there an allocation of blood from the anus? What to do?
Necessary actions
In the case when during or after bowel movement you find that there is an admixture of blood in the stool, or you notice blood on toilet paper, do not panic ahead of time. Just try to see a doctor as soon as possible, who can schedule a consultation with a proctologist. But if the bleeding is very strong and you feel that your general condition is beginning to worsen, you need to call an ambulance. And after the specialist determines the causes of your condition, it will be possible to prescribe therapy. Even if there is blood from the anus without pain.
Diagnostic Methods
- Colonoscopy It is carried out by the endoscopic method and helps to detect all pathologies that have arisen in the structure of the colon.
- Rectoscopy. The human digestive system is examined, most often its lower sections. With this method, specialists can detect anal fissures, hemorrhoids and various formations in the sigmoid and rectum.
- Irrigoscopy. For its implementation, a special solution is introduced into the intestine, which is necessary to obtain a clear picture on the x-ray.
- Gastroduodenoscopy. Examination of the patient using an endoscope, which will assess the general condition of the mucous membrane of the digestive system. Sometimes, with this method, treatment is also carried out.
Fecal analysis can determine the presence of blood, even if it is not visible. Such a study is prescribed in special cases: if the doctor may suspect a patient with a disease that is expressed as rectal bleeding.
Bleeding therapy
It is clear enough that with a wide variety of factors that can provoke rectal bleeding, there cannot be one treatment regimen for all patients. It is worth noting that such a pathology is not considered a disease. It is rather a symptom. Therefore, to eliminate it, it is important to identify and cure the disease that caused this bleeding.
Not in every case, bleeding from the anus is a serious pathology. Although in many cases this is a good reason to visit a doctor. There should be no independent treatment, even if you know what is causing this phenomenon.
It all depends on what the problem is. How methods and methods of dealing with it may differ:
- The surgical method is carried out in the presence of polyps, neoplasms and advanced forms of hemorrhoids.
- The drug method can be used for the infectious nature of bleeding from the anus or for helminthic invasions. The exclusion of a provoking factor can lead to the elimination of an alarming symptom.
- A combination method may often be required to better combat the disease. For example, in the case of an ulcer, cauterization is carried out first, and then antibacterial therapy.
- The contact method is carried out with ulcerative lesions of the walls of the intestine or stomach.