What causes mucus in stool?

Friends whose stools contain mucus need to pay attention to whether it is caused by colitis or chronic enteritis. In fact, the incidence of this disease is very high, so we need to treat it symptomatically after clarifying the cause to reduce the adverse harm it causes to the body.

1. Colitis

Colitis, especially ulcerative colitis, can easily cause diarrhea, abdominal pain, mucus in the stool, and even constipation and intestinal rumbling. Diarrhea and constipation may occur alone or alternately, often accompanied by symptoms such as weight loss, fatigue and insomnia. You need to go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time to prevent the condition from getting worse.

2Chronic enteritis

A chronic inflammatory disease of the intestine often caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites, diet and abuse of antibiotics. Clinically, it often manifests as long-term chronic or recurrent abdominal pain, diarrhea, indigestion and other symptoms. In severe cases, there may be mucus or watery stools. Some patients have excessive diarrhea, which leads to serious involvement of the rectum. They may experience tenesmus, mushy stools, increased mucus, and even pus and blood.

3. Bowel cancer

Such as rectal cancer, colon cancer, intestinal tumors, etc., compared with colon cancer, the mucus is the most obvious. Colon cancer is a common digestive tract tumor that occurs in the colon. In the early stages of colon cancer, symptoms include abdominal distension, abdominal pain, and indigestion. These symptoms are not obvious and are often missed. Then there will be changes in bowel habits, abdominal pain before defecation, mucus in the stool or mucopurulent blood in the stool, accompanied by symptoms such as low fever, fatigue, and weight loss. Colon cancer is divided into right-sided colon cancer and left-sided colon cancer. The stool of right-sided colon cancer is liquid or cachectic; the stool of left-sided colon cancer is dry and hard, and the main manifestations are acute or chronic intestinal obstruction.

4 Others

For example, hemorrhoids, blood in the stool, rectal and colon polyps, bacterial dysentery, acute schistosomiasis, and symptoms such as spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, spleen deficiency and dampness and heat, and cold and dampness as believed in traditional Chinese medicine may all cause mucus in the stool.

In short, for people with unclear symptoms, excessive mucus, especially mucus mixed with blood, purulent secretions, etc., you should go to the hospital for examination in time to rule out the possibility of diseases such as colon cancer, intestinal tumors, polyps, etc. as early as possible. For early symptoms, you should cooperate with the doctor to actively receive treatment and recover as soon as possible. In addition, for mucus stools caused by physiological factors, you should pay attention to hygiene, avoid raw, cold, spicy, greasy and fishy foods, and eat light food as the main food. Pay attention to rest, avoid fatigue, and do appropriate exercise such as walking, practicing Tai Chi, etc., which are beneficial to help conditioning and recovery. For mucus stools caused by chronic diseases, treatment should be patient and not impatient. The treatment should be thorough and should not be stopped when improvement is seen, so as to avoid recurrence of the disease and increase the difficulty of cure.