The common clinical causes of soft stools that are difficult to pull out include irritable bowel syndrome, bacillary dysentery, and rectal cancer.
1. Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS): It is the most common functional gastrointestinal disease in clinic, which is usually associated with food allergy, intestinal infection and other factors. People with the disease can manifest abdominal pain, abnormal defecation, constipation and diarrhea will alternate with each other, and there will also be soft stool but difficult to pull out the symptoms, accompanied by a feeling of incomplete after defecation and so on.
2. Bacterial dysentery: It is an intestinal infectious disease caused by Shigella infection, which can lead to inflammation or ulceration in the rectum, sigmoid colon and other parts of the body. Clinical manifestations include abdominal pain, diarrhea, heaviness and a feeling of incompleteness after defecation, etc. The stool may be soft but difficult to pull out.
3. Rectal cancer: it is a kind of malignant tumor originated from the mucous epithelium of rectum, mostly seen in men aged 40-80. Early symptoms of people with the disease include change of bowel habit, frequent bowel movement, urgency and heaviness, falling sensation in front of anus after defecation, and also the symptom that the stool is soft but hard to pull out.
If the symptoms persist and do not improve, it is recommended to go to the gastroenterology department of the hospital for a definitive diagnosis through colonoscopy and other tests.