Indeed, hemorrhoids and rectal cancer may have symptoms of blood in the stool. In clinical practice, many patients with rectal cancer found blood in the stool at the initial stage, thinking that it was hemorrhoids and did not pay attention to them. They did not go to the hospital until the symptoms were severe. However, the prognosis of hemorrhoids and rectal cancer is different, and the prognosis of early and late rectal cancer is different. Therefore, for your own health, you should identify the disease as soon as possible, make a clear diagnosis, and actively treat it. Hemorrhoids and rectal cancer can be distinguished simply and quickly when hematochezia occurs.
1. Count the number of bowel movements per day. Patients with hemorrhoids and normal people have similar defecation times, 1-2 times a day is normal; patients with rectal cancer have more defecation times, generally 4 to 5 times. Some patients with mid-stage rectal cancer can have 7-8 times a day, and it will last several times. year.
2. Pay attention to how you feel after defecation. Patients with hemorrhoids may feel pain in the anus if they have frequent bowel movements or for a long time; patients with rectal cancer still have the feeling of incomplete bowel movements after multiple bowel movements.
3. Distinguish the smell of stool. The smell of stool of patients with hemorrhoids is not much different from that of normal people; the stool of patients with rectal cancer will have a fishy and rancid smell.
4. Observe the color of blood in the stool and the amount of bleeding. The color of blood in the stool during defecation of hemorrhoid patients is bright red, usually when a tissue is wiped with a little blood stains, and blood is attached to the stool; or it is discharged drop by drop with blood during defecation; or it is accompanied by blood ejection during defecation, which is more serious , You need to go to the hospital for treatment immediately. In patients with rectal cancer, the blood in the stool is usually dark red or purplish red, sometimes with mucus, and seldom drips or ejects blood. If you find line-like blood streaks on the stool during defecation, and you do not feel pain in the anus, you should be alert to the possibility of rectal cancer at this time.
If you find the characteristics of suspected rectal cancer through the above methods, you must go to the hospital for further digital rectal examination and proctoscopy.
