Blood stool: causes

A stool with blood is an alarming signal that indicates a person to problems that have arisen in his body, and more specifically in the digestive tract. Typically, this symptom is caused by bleeding in the intestines, which can be dangerous to human health. Therefore, timely access to a doctor and finding out the cause of this pathology is extremely important. In order to correctly diagnose possible diseases, the first thing to do is to identify the place of bleeding. And for this, a thorough examination and a lot of tests are prescribed.

Causes and symptoms

A stool with blood is a sign that the intestinal mucosa or its vessels are damaged. And it, in turn, is caused by a number of different diseases. It should be noted that with each of them the stool with blood is not the same, there are different manifestations:

• Excessive bleeding from the rectum may be a symptom of diverticulosis and ischemic colitis.
• With stomach cancer and ulcers, human feces turn black.
• With hemorrhoids and tumors of the intestine, which can cause blood in the stool, the stool becomes bright red.
• Blood stains that remain on the underwear may indicate colon cancer.
• If streaks of blood are found in the feces, then tumors of the digestive tract or Crohn's disease can be suspected.
• It is likely that stool with blood may appear as a result of taking certain antibiotics.
  

Another, no less frequent, cause of the appearance of such a pathology is infectious diseases (dysentery, salmonellosis, etc.) and any other infections that damage the intestinal mucosa. In this case, as a rule, there is a loose stool with blood in the form of veins. Cramping pain and false urge to defecate may also occur.

Blood with stools may appear due to allergies. Very often, it appears on the proteins found in goat and cow milk. In this case, there is a decrease in appetite, weight loss and allergic skin rashes.

If a person experiences severe abdominal pain, then this may indicate invagination - the absorption of one part of the intestine into another. With this diagnosis, vomiting may also be added to the stool with blood.

When to see a doctor

• With a duration of heavy bleeding more than 15-30 minutes. Here
  
  You can’t hesitate - every second counts, as they say.
• If you know for sure that your relatives had bowel cancer.
• Along with bleeding, symptoms such as abdominal pain, fever, dizziness, weakness, diarrhea, and weight loss have occurred .
• The occurrence of bleeding after a certain period of time after the treatment of cancer with radiation therapy.

If you find the above symptoms, you must visit a doctor (proctologist, oncologist or surgeon). If bleeding occurred in a child or in a pregnant woman, then you must immediately call an ambulance.

In conclusion, we can conclude that visual inspection of feces plays an essential role in human life. After all, it is he who will help to conduct an early diagnosis of diseases, after which timely treatment will be started.