What to look out for in patients with anorectal disease

  Anal diseases such as hemorrhoids, anal fistula and anal fissure are diseases with high incidence, and the incidence of rectal cancer has also increased significantly in recent years. Therefore, timely and correct diagnosis and treatment of anorectal diseases is particularly important. The following are some of the things that patients need to pay attention to when they visit the doctor, which I hope will be helpful to you: 1. clothing: because most anorectal patients have to undergo anorectal local examination, so don’t wear clothes and pants that are difficult to take off.  2, makeup: do not wear heavy makeup, the best plain face. This will help the doctor to observe the patient’s face and lip color (for example, there are some patients with long-term blood in the stool can lead to anemia, the initial diagnosis can be made by looking at the patient).  3.Eating: If you come to the clinic in the morning, you can have an empty stomach in the morning. This way, if you need to do blood biochemistry, abdominal ultrasound and other tests will not need to come to the hospital again. (Colonoscopy, electromyography, anorectal pressure measurement and other tests before most need to draw blood except for hepatitis B, AIDS and other infectious diseases). If it is determined that the surgery on the same day, patients should eat some less residue food before coming to the hospital, such as milk, thin rice soup, eight porridge, bread, etc., to avoid post-operative dizziness, nausea and other discomfort.  4, defecation: anorectal disease patients to visit the doctor, the doctor has to conduct anal finger diagnosis and anoscopy, so please try to empty the stool to visit the doctor. Otherwise, only the feces in the intestinal cavity can be touched during finger diagnosis, which will affect the diagnosis. If you visit the doctor because of blood or mucus in the stool or diarrhea, you can ask the doctor to issue a laboratory test first, and then go to the toilet to keep a stool specimen, and then come to the office for examination after it is cleared.  5, answer the doctor’s questions: the doctor will ask some questions during the consultation to initially analyze the patient’s disease, such as: how do you feel uncomfortable / how bad? Do not answer the self-perceived disease, such as: I have hemorrhoids / I am colitis, unless it has been diagnosed. To say their symptoms, such as: blood in the stool, anal pain, anal swelling prolapse during defecation, perianal itching, skin around the anus, etc.  6.Specialist examination: When performing anal finger diagnosis and anoscopy, patients will more or less feel some discomfort of swelling, first of all, they should relax so as to reduce the discomfort brought by the examination. If you really feel severe pain, you can explain to the doctor, do not suddenly dodge during the examination, which is more likely to increase discomfort, and the doctor is not easy to check clearly. In the colonoscopy because of the injection of gas into the intestinal cavity, there will be abdominal distension and discomfort, if you can not tolerate it must be said to the doctor, do not just put up with it, after the examination can go to the toilet to discharge the gas in the intestinal cavity, can be faster to relieve discomfort.  7, the last is to listen to the doctor’s advice: many patients because of fear or shyness and reluctance to check the delayed condition. Although the anorectal examination has some discomfort, but most patients can tolerate. If you don’t want to be examined by a doctor of the opposite sex, you can ask which day a doctor of the same sex will be available before you see him. It would be a shame to delay the treatment because of fear or shyness.