Symptoms of chronic colitis

Chronic colitis will not attack so quickly, but when it does, you will have stomach pain. First, there will be problems with the digestive tract and then diarrhea or constipation. These are early symptoms. In severe cases, intestinal bleeding will occur and then cause enteritis. It is recommended to develop good living habits in daily life. If the symptoms of enteritis are discovered early, timely treatment will be given. If the condition is serious, it will be difficult to treat.

Colitis is a common internal medicine disease. Colitis is divided into acute and chronic types. Many people don’t know much about chronic colitis. The following are the 9 major symptoms of chronic colitis.

Chronic colitis is a chronic, recurrent, multiple-focal colitis with the colon, sigmoid colon, and rectum as the disease sites. It refers to inflammatory edema, ulcers, and bleeding lesions in the rectum and colon caused by various pathogenic causes. Symptoms include pain in the lower left abdomen, diarrhea, tenesmus, occasional liquid in the stool, alternating constipation and diarrhea, intermittent improvement and deterioration, lingering and recurrent symptoms. Chronic colitis is a chronic colon disease that is usually divided into specific colitis with obvious causes and nonspecific colitis with unknown causes. Let’s take a look at its specific symptoms.

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. Signs of enteritis

Long-term abdominal discomfort or dull pain in the lower abdomen. Physical examination may show mild tenderness, hyperactive bowel sounds, and rectal prolapse, mainly in the abdomen, around the umbilicus, or in the lower abdomen.

6. 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.

7. Blood in the stool

Blood in the stool is one of the main symptoms of this disease. In mild cases, the blood is attached to the surface, while in severe cases, fresh blood flows down and even causes shock.

8. Dysentery

This is one of the main symptoms of colitis, which is a common disease.

9. Systemic manifestations

It presents symptoms of chronic wasting, with sallow complexion, lack of energy, laziness to speak, weakness in the limbs, and preference for warmth and fear of cold. For example, during the acute inflammatory phase, in addition to fever, symptoms of dehydration, acidosis, or shock and bleeding may be seen.