Symptoms of ascending colitis, be alert to diarrhea

Ascending colitis is a type of chronic colitis, and its corresponding disease is descending colitis. Diarrhea is the most obvious symptom of ascending colitis, while descending colitis can cause constipation. There are many symptoms of chronic colitis, so it needs to be treated as soon as possible and pay attention to daily care.

1. Symptoms of ascending colitis

Chronic colitis is divided into ascending colitis (right abdomen) and descending colitis (left abdomen). Ascending colitis is mostly diarrhea, especially early morning diarrhea. Descending colitis is mostly constipation.

2. Symptoms and signs of chronic colitis

1. Digestive tract symptoms

Intermittent abdominal pain, bloating and abdominal pain are often the main manifestations of enteritis. It is especially prevalent when exposed to cold, eating greasy food, experiencing emotional fluctuations, or after being tired. The frequency of bowel movements increases, with several times or dozens of times a day, anal prolapse, and uncomfortable bowel movements. During acute attacks of chronic enteritis, high fever, abdominal cramps, nausea and vomiting, and urgent watery or sticky, frozen, bloody stools may occur.

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

It is one of the first major symptoms of ulcerative colitis. In most cases, blood is mixed in liquid stool and may adhere to the outside of the stool during defecation.

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.