There are many symptoms of gastrointestinal bleeding, which can be divided into upper gastrointestinal bleeding symptoms and lower gastrointestinal bleeding symptoms, and the common ones are vomiting blood, black stools, blood in stools, anemia, etc. During the acute attack, blood volume should be replenished as soon as possible and the treatment should be tailored to the cause of the disease, such as medication such as omeprazole, octreotide, etc. or endoscopic and surgical hemostasis.
1.Symptoms:
Upper gastrointestinal bleeding: upper gastrointestinal bleeding usually appears to vomit blood, the color of the vomit is bright red and with blood clots, if the bleeding volume is small there will be brown or coffee-colored vomit. If the amount of bleeding is large, it will be accompanied by dizziness, panic and weakness, or even fainting. Bowel movements may be tarry, sticky and shiny black.
Lower gastrointestinal bleeding: Lower gastrointestinal bleeding is mainly characterized by black stools and blood in the stools. If the lower gastrointestinal bleeding is small, black stools will appear; if the amount of bleeding is large, there will be dark-red blood stools or even bright-red blood stools.
2. Treatment: Vital signs should be monitored during acute episodes of gastrointestinal bleeding. For the small amount of non-variceal bleeding to use omeprazole, lansoprazole and other drugs to inhibit gastric acid treatment, for a small amount of variceal rupture bleeding, you can use octreotide, terlipressin and other vasoactive drugs treatment. Specific medications should be administered under the guidance of a physician.
If there is a large amount of bleeding, blood transfusion should be given as soon as possible to replenish blood volume. At the same time, bleeding should be stopped as soon as possible through balloon compression, endoscopic hemostasis, and vascular intervention embolization.
The patient should consult the doctor in time and follow the doctor’s instructions.