It always frightening to find blood in your stool, whether you discover it after a bowel movement or after the test prescribed by your doctor. Blood in stool means there is problem with your digestive track. It can come from anywhere, from mouth to anus. Bloody stool is a critical issue but in some cases it not that serious.
Possible causes of blood in stool are:
Diverticular disease
Diverticulitis are abnormal pouches in colon wall, caused be weakening of muscle layer in the colon wall. Most of the time diverticulitis doesn’t cause problems, but sometimes they cause bleeding and infection. Diverticulitis is not common before age of 40, and after 40 the chances of this disease are more than enough.
Anal fissure
A small break or tear in the tissue of anal canal, similar to cracks caused by paper cut and chapped lips. Fissures are discovered by bleeding on the toilet paper or sometimes in toilet. Usually caused by passing a large, hard stool and can be quite painful.
Hemorrhoids
Hemorrhoids develop when veins in the anal canal become swollen and distorted. It is a common problem, and can cause pain but is usually not very dangerous. There are both internal and external hemorrhoids. Internal hemorrhoids develop by swelling of veins inside the anal canal swell and external is the swelling of veins near the opening of anal canal. One can have both at one time.
Yellow Fever
Yellow fever is an infectious disease transmitted in humans by bite of mosquitoes.
Colitis
Colitis is caused by inflammation in the colon .Infections and inflammatory bowel disease is most common causes of blood in stools.
Colorectal cancer
A huge tumor arising from the inner wall of large intestine. Colorectal cancer is usually caused by polyps.
Angiodysplasia.
A condition in which delicate, irregular blood vessels cause to bleeding
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)
It is condition when there is less number of platelets in human body and because of that blood doesn’t clot as it should. Thus sometimes cause bleeding stools.
Peptic sores.
An open soar in the upper end of the small intestines. Many peptic sores are due to infection with bacteria called Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori). Long-term use or high amounts of anti-inflammatory drugs such as pain killers, Advil, and naproxen can also cause sores.
Polyps or melanoma.
Polyps are harmless irregular growths that can grow, hemorrhage, and become cancer. Intestinal tract melanoma is the third most common melanoma in the U.S. It often causes blood loss that is not recognizable with the undressed eye.
Stomach cancer
It is a tumor that usually starts developing in the cells in the inner layer of the stomach. With time its spreads deeply in stomach wall reaching to the nearby organs such as pancreas esophagus. Overtime the cancer cells spread and breaks the original tumor damaging the tissues in the stomach which can cause also cause stool bleeding
Windpipe’s problems
Spider blood vessels of the wind pipe or tears in the wind pipe can cause to severe swelling and can also cause stool bleeding
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