What are the symptoms of chronic colorectalitis

Chronic colitis and proctitis are relatively common diseases. When patients suffer from this disease, the symptoms are also more obvious, especially abdominal pain and diarrhea, which can easily cause alternating diarrhea and dry stools, intestinal bleeding, and abdominal pain. More serious patients will develop anemia, causing symptoms such as lack of energy and fever.

1. Digestive tract symptoms

Common symptoms are abdominal pain, bloating, and abdominal pain. It will be more obvious when exposed to cold or after eating greasy food. The frequency of bowel movements will also increase, and when chronic enteritis occurs acutely, there will also be symptoms of high fever, abdominal cramps, nausea and vomiting.

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

Intestinal bleeding is one of the first symptoms of ulcerative colitis. In most cases, the blood is mixed in the liquid stool or attached to the outside of the stool.

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. Systemic manifestations

The face is dull and listless, the limbs are weak, and there is fear of cold. If it is in the acute inflammatory stage, in addition to fever, dehydration, acidosis or shock and bleeding are also the main manifestations.