It has been three months since the recurrence of blood in the stool, but the heart is quite big, and I have always thought that I am just hemorrhoids, and the symptoms of blood in the stool have become more and more serious, and I agreed to go to the hospital under the dissuasion of my family.
According to the doctor, after the male patient was admitted to the hospital, the doctor quickly arranged a colonoscopy, and the results found that the patient had multiple adenomatous polyps in the intestine, among which an adenomatous polyp located in the rectum was the cause of bleeding, and an adenomatous polyp in the descending colon had become cancerous.
This is a typical case of a minor illness dragging into a major illness.
More than 95% of colorectal cancers are formed by adenomatous polyps, and the remaining 5% of colorectal cancers are mainly formed by intestinal diseases such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.
In fact, as long as adenomatous polyps can be detected in time, bowel cancer can be strangled in the cradle, that is, timely detection of polyps can prevent 95% of the probability of bowel cancer.
The problem is that it is easy to say, it is difficult to do, it is difficult to do it, the people do not pay attention to it at all, and the alarm signal has occurred in the body, but they have repeatedly ignored it, and because the intestinal polyps are found to rely on colonoscopy, many people are particularly reluctant to colonoscopy, and feel that colonoscopy is particularly painful and risky, which has led to a series of reasons, and it is difficult to find intestinal polyps.
Some people have no symptoms, but some people have symptoms, and it is more difficult to find them if they have no symptoms, because few people will take the initiative to use colonoscopy as a physical examination tool, but when you have symptoms, you still turn a blind eye, which is a bit excessive.
If there is a polyp in the intestine, there will be 4 prompts when you go to the toilet, don't wait until the middle and late stages to find out.
1. Polyps grow in the intestines, and there may be blood in the stool when going to the toilet
In particular, polyps located in the rectum can easily cut through the polyps on the surface of the polyps and cause bleeding when the stool passes through, and the rectum is adjacent to the anus, so blood in the stool caused by rectal polyps is particularly easy to be misdiagnosed as hemorrhoids.
2. Polyps grow in the intestines, and the shape of the stool may become thinner when you go to the toilet
Over time, polyps will change, small polyps will become large polyps, benign polyps will become malignant tumors, small polyps will generally not have symptoms, because polyps are too small, but large polyps are not necessarily, with the increase in the volume of polyps, the intestinal lumen will become narrow, and when the stool passes, it will be like a squeezed toothpaste, which will cause the stool to appear abnormally thin.
Unfortunately, if you don't pay attention to your stool, it is difficult to detect such abnormalities.
3. Polyps grow in the intestines, and there may be changes in bowel habits when going to the toilet
Some polyps will repeatedly irritate the intestinal mucosa, thus causing the appearance of the urge to defecate, so the bowel habit will become irregular, some people have to defecate many times a day, and the defecation time is not fixed, at this time, it is also necessary to pay great attention.
4. Polyps grow in the intestines, and there may be abnormal constipation or diarrhea when going to the toilet
Normal people's stool is yellow cylindrical, particularly soft, smooth surface, if there is abnormal constipation or diarrhea, it should be paid great attention to, and some patients, diarrhea and constipation alternate.
Colonoscopy can not only detect intestinal polyps in time, but more importantly, it can also strangle polyps in the cradle through minimally invasive treatment, thus avoiding the risk of bowel cancer.
However, if it is delayed again and again, or if intestinal polyps are not taken seriously after being discovered, once the polyps turn into colorectal cancer, it is often necessary to undergo more invasive surgery, and the patient will have to bear more pain.