Characteristics of colitis Pay attention to the 5 major symptoms

Colitis is caused by many reasons. There are various specific characteristics in the early stages of colitis. You can judge whether you have colitis based on these characteristics. When our body shows the characteristic symptoms of colitis, we should immediately stop eating all kinds of irritating foods and go to the hospital for medical treatment in time to ensure timely diagnosis and control of colitis.

1. Digestive tract symptoms

Intermittent abdominal pain, bloating and abdominal pain are often the main manifestations of enteritis. It is especially prevalent when exposed to cold, eating greasy food, experiencing emotional fluctuations, or after being tired. The frequency of bowel movements increases, with several times or dozens of times a day, anal prolapse, and uncomfortable bowel movements. During acute attacks of chronic enteritis, high fever, abdominal cramps, nausea and vomiting, and urgent watery or sticky, frozen, bloody stools may occur.

2. Diarrhea

It is the most common symptom of colitis, and is often accompanied by abnormal stools such as mucous bloody stools, watery stools, mucous stools, and loose stools. In mild cases, bowel movements occur every 1 to 2 hours, and the stool is sometimes filled with mucus, pus, and blood, or watery stool without feces. 5% of patients with ulcerative colitis may experience constipation, which is mostly a case of enteritis. Because there is blood in the stool, it is often mistaken for hemorrhoidal bleeding.

3. Constipation

Colitis and proctitis are the causes of constipation, which can be caused by systemic metabolic disorders, nervous system diseases, or small anal fissures in the anus.

4. Intestinal bleeding

It is one of the first major symptoms of ulcerative colitis. In most cases, blood is mixed in liquid stool and may adhere to the outside of the stool during defecation.

5. Abdominal pain

Patients with chronic recurrent attacks often have abdominal pain, which is mostly mild to moderate spasmodic abdominal pain, mostly in the left lower abdomen and left abdomen. In most cases, it is paroxysmal, short-term, mild abdominal pain. The abdominal pain is significant during diarrhea attacks, and there is a pattern of abdominal pain-urge to defecate-relief after defecation. Severely ill patients may experience persistent severe pain, and severe rectal involvement is often accompanied by symptoms of tenesmus.