The red color of the stool may be caused by eating red food, which does not require special treatment. It may also be caused by lower gastrointestinal bleeding, anorectal diseases, etc., which need symptomatic treatment such as medication like mesalazine or surgical treatment.
1. Eating red food. For example, after eating a large amount of watermelon, red dragon fruit, there may be a red stool. No special treatment is needed in this case.
2. Lower gastrointestinal bleeding. For example, intestinal polyps, colitis or descending colon tumors, etc., may appear red stool, perfect colonoscopy after a clear diagnosis, polypectomy or tumor resection, if the colitis can choose medication, such as mesalazine, cyclosporine and so on.
3. Anorectal diseases. For example, rectal cancer, internal hemorrhoids, external hemorrhoids and so on. The bleeding of this type of disease is usually fresh blood attached to the surface of the feces, you can improve the rectal fingerprinting or enteroscopy to clarify the cause of the disease. Internal hemorrhoids, external hemorrhoids non-acute generally do not require special treatment, rectal cancer requires active surgical treatment.
The above drugs are recommended to be used under the guidance of a doctor.