Diseases of the rectum.

The rectum is the last part of the digestive link and the continuation of the large intestine. Diseases of the rectum, with which they most often seek help from a doctor:

• Hemorrhoids.

• Proctitis.

• Anal fissures.

• Rectal cancer.

The most frequent pathology of the rectum is hemorrhoids, which appears as a result of chronic constipation. This disease is overtaken by almost 40% of people, with 20% of patients need treatment. Like all other diseases of the rectum, hemorrhoids have various causes of development: constipation, motionless lifestyle, pregnancy, a certain type of labor activity, alcohol abuse, infectious diseases.

Signs of the appearance of the disease can be:

• Discomfort near the anus,

• Itching,

• Difficulty in defecation.

• When advanced stages of the disease can appear blood from the rectum.

Treatment of this disease of the rectum is aimed at eliminating pain, lifting the spasm, stopping internal bleeding.

On the second place of diseases of a rectum there is a cancer. The causes of its occurrence have not yet been revealed, there are only assumptions that chronic inflammatory diseases can contribute to this - ulcerative colitis, anal fissures, etc.

Signs of colorectal cancer:

• The presence in the feces of impurities in the form of mucus separately or together with pus and even blood. And sometimes there is bleeding, which can leave pieces of the tumor.

• Pain in the sacrum, waist, coccyx and perineum.

• The feces become a ribbon-like form.

• Constant urge to defecate, causing pain.

• The patient may feel the presence of something foreign in the rectum. As a rule, this is the tumor itself.

• Constipation, which is accompanied by bloating, pain in the upper abdomen.

• In cancer of the anus, the presence of a tumor near the anus can be visually determined.

• If the disease is started, then constant pain in the lower abdomen is present, feces are released during urination or from the vagina (when the tumor spreads to the bladder and forms a passage between the bladder or vagina and bowel).

Treatment of such a disease of the rectum, like cancer, is performed only surgically, in which the affected area is removed. The other types of treatment bring only a temporary result.

The appearance of the anal fissure is accompanied by frequent constipation, pain during defecation. This may cause minor bleeding. Treatment of anal fissures is based on the prevention of constipation and the sprain of the anal sphincter by a doctor for 4 minutes. The patient is under general anesthesia at this time.

Proctitis is an inflammatory disease that is accompanied by a lesion of the rectal mucosa. To the causes of its occurrence can be attributed to malnutrition, constipation, parasite disease, inflammation of the pelvic organs. The main symptoms are pain in the rectum and excision of pus from the anus. Sometimes the temperature rises. Treatment is aimed at suppressing the infection with antibiotics. With diseases of the rectum should pay special attention to their nutrition.