What causes blood clots in stool?

Defecation is a kind of excretion behavior of the human body. It can expel the products of human metabolism and other substances that are useless to the human body. This is a very normal physiological behavior. However, some people will have blood clots in their stool. This situation may be caused by gastrointestinal diseases or hemorrhoids, etc. People need to understand it in detail. Here we will introduce what is going on with blood clots in the stool.

What causes bleeding:

1. Anal fissure and bloody stool: There is blood in the stool or bleeding after defecation. The amount of blood in the stool is small, bright red, and covers the surface of the stool in thread-like form. There is anal pain during or after defecation.

2. Hemorrhoids with blood in the stool: It usually occurs after defecation, flowing out in a jet-like manner, or dripping blood after defecation. The bleeding is bright red, and the blood does not mix with feces. The amount of bleeding varies, and may be accompanied by a foreign body sensation or pain in the anus.

3. Bacterial dysentery: The amount of blood in the stool is small, often mixed with feces, and is pus-blooded or pus-blooded mucous stool, bright red in color, with frequent bowel movements, a feeling of tenesmus and tenderness in the left lower abdomen, accompanied by abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting.

4. Rectal polyps: blood in the stool or bleeding after defecation. Generally, the amount of blood in the stool is not much and is not mixed with the stool. The blood adheres to the surface of the stool and is bright red. Chronic cases may be mixed with mucus or pus. Sometimes the stool becomes thin and stringy.

5. Rectal cancer: The cause of bloody stool is more common in middle-aged and elderly people. Bloody stool occurs intermittently or repeatedly, gradually worsens, and there are symptoms of tenesmus. The surface of the stool may be mixed with mucus, pus, and blood. The stool is formed but gradually becomes thinner. In the late stage, patients may experience weight loss, anemia, etc.

Many patients have found that the symptoms of bloody stools often do not exist alone, but are often accompanied by multiple other complications. If not treated in time, it will bring more pain to the patients and increase the difficulty of treating bloody stools. Therefore, if you find the cause of blood in your stool, you must go to a regular hospital for treatment in time.

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[Treatment policy]

Asymptomatic hemorrhoids do not require treatment; symptomatic hemorrhoids do not require radical treatment and are mainly treated with non-surgical methods. When conservative treatment is ineffective, hemorrhoids are severely prolapsed, large fibrotic internal hemorrhoids are not well treated with injections, and combined with anal fissures, anal fistulas, etc., surgical treatment is used.

[Drug treatment]

1. Oral medication is generally used to treat varicose veins. 2. Injection therapy is more effective for grade I and II bleeding internal hemorrhoids; the sclerosant is injected around the venous plexus in the submucosal layer to cause inflammatory reaction and fibrosis, thereby compressing and closing the varicose veins; the treatment can be repeated after one month to avoid injecting the sclerosant into the mucosal layer and causing necrosis.

[Surgical treatment]

1. Thrombosed external hemorrhoidectomy is suitable for patients whose pain does not ease or the swelling does not shrink after conservative treatment of thrombosed external hemorrhoids. 2. Traditional hemorrhoidectomy is external peeling and internal ligation. 3. Circumcision of hemorrhoids (Whitehead procedure) This is a classic procedure in textbooks, which can easily lead to anal stenosis and is rarely used in clinical practice. 4.PPH surgery: stapler hemorrhoidectomy and hemorrhoidal mucosal circumcision and stapling.