Is surgery a good treatment for sigmoid colon polyps?

Many patients are confused about whether sigmoid colon polyps should be treated surgically. Surgical resection includes local resection, intestinal segment resection, subtotal colectomy, and total colectomy. However, not all patients require surgical treatment because repeated local surgical treatments may easily cause the displacement, regeneration, and canceration of polyps.

1. Let's talk about surgical resection

Surgical resection: The main surgical treatments for patients with intestinal polyps include: local resection, segmental intestinal resection, subtotal colectomy, total colectomy, and total colon and rectal resection. It depends on the number of polyps, the width of the base and their location. Surgical resection is convenient and saves time. However, the human body is one of the most sophisticated instruments in the world, with each part closely connected and unable to be damaged in any way. Surgical resection undoubtedly destroys the integrity of the human body. In fact, according to clinical observations of more than 10,000 patients, more than 85% of patients do not need surgical treatment, and repeated local surgical treatments can easily cause displacement, regeneration, and canceration of polyps. At the same time, postoperative complications and sequelae seriously affect the patient's health.

2. Let’s look at the treatment of Western medicine

Medication treatment: Medication works relatively quickly, but long-term and large-scale use of hormones for treatment is not conducive to our physical and mental health, because hormones themselves have side effects that cannot be ignored. Long-term use of Western medicine will lead to obesity; it can cause osteoporosis and femoral head necrosis; the body's resistance will decrease, blood sugar will rise, corticosteroid syndrome, gastrointestinal ulcers, electrolyte disorders, etc.; for younger children, long-term use will affect children's development; irregular use of hormone drugs (random addition or subtraction, discontinuation of medication, irregular withdrawal, etc.) can easily make the disease worse and even difficult to treat, and the condition will get worse again and again, increasing the difficulty of treatment and recovery; it can also cause the body to develop drug resistance.

Many patients are worried about the pain of intestinal polyp examination and surgical treatment and prefer drug treatment. However, experts warn that currently no more effective drugs have been developed in the clinic to treat intestinal polyps. General drugs can only relieve intestinal polyps to a certain extent but cannot cure them. In addition, long-term use of oral antibiotics will have strong toxic side effects on the body.

3. Patients must be wary of some drugs or dietary remedies that claim to be able to cure intestinal polyps. These remedies often have no scientific basis and not only cannot cure intestinal polyps, they may also cause the condition to worsen. Clinically, intestinal polyps can only be cured through surgery. For this reason, if intestinal polyps are found, patients need to go to a regular professional hospital for examination and surgical treatment in time.