What are the different types of blood in stool? Blood in stool is bleeding or blood in the stool. It is also called hematemesis in Chinese medicine. Blood in stool can be divided into two types, when the stool can be seen with the naked eye bleeding, dripping blood, blood on the stool, or pus and blood, dipstick blood stool, or blood and stool mixed together so that the feces into a tarry color, dark red, is called obvious bleeding; stool can not be seen with the naked eye bleeding, and the use of laboratory methods in order to find out that there is bleeding is called latent hemorrhage, submerged blood, or anonymous blood. Some people are very nervous when they see blood in the stool, suspecting that they have cancer and worrying about it; some people, on the contrary, think that it is hemorrhoids and other minor illnesses, and therefore do not pay attention to it. These two attitudes are not right, the correct attitude is to consult a doctor in time to find out the cause of bleeding. What diseases can cause blood in the stool? Many gastrointestinal and systemic diseases can cause blood in the stool, and blood in the stool is a relatively common clinical symptom. 1, can cause blood in the stool of the digestive tract diseases are: 1) the upper cause blood in the stool of the digestive tract diseases are: gastric, duodenal ulcer, gastritis, esophagitis, pancreatitis, esophagus, stomach, duodenum, liver, gallbladder cancer. 2) Lower gastrointestinal diseases ① small intestine diseases Acute necrotizing enteritis, pseudomembranous enteritis, enteric typhus, etc.. ② colorectal diseases colorectal cancer, colorectal polyposis, colorectal diverticulum, ulcerative colitis, colorectal tuberculosis, bacillary dysentery, amoebic dysentery, Crohn’s disease, schistosomiasis, intestinal intussusception, rectal prolapse and so on. ③ anal diseases hemorrhoids, anal fissure, anal sinusitis, anus, peripheral abscess, anal canal cancer. 2, can cause blood in the stool of systemic diseases are: 1) blood diseases such as leukemia, thrombocytopenic purpura, hemophilia, aplastic anemia. 2)Certain infectious diseases, septicemia, uremia. 3)Vitamin C and vitamin K deficiency 4)Certain drug poisoning such as mercury and arsenic poisoning. 5) Certain food poisoning. How to diagnose diseases by observing bloody stools? Through visual observation or stool tests, according to the amount of blood in the stool, color changes, whether mixed with pus, mucus, constipation, diarrhea, abdominal pain, etc., can help us to diagnose which one of the hemorrhagic diseases we are suffering from. If you want to know what kind of disease your blood in stool may be caused by, please check Table 1. Of course, what we find out from the table is only a general overview, and it can only provide us with a reference for estimating what kind of disease we are suffering from. The final correct diagnosis, but also need to do a lot of tests, such as stool laboratory tests, anorectal fingerprinting, anoscopy, proctoscopy, sigmoidoscopy, fiber-optic colonoscopy, barium enema X-ray, barium gastrointestinal X-ray and so on. According to the results of the examination, combined with the manifestations of systemic diseases, comprehensive judgment in order to make a correct diagnosis. You can’t just draw your own conclusions based on some of the symptoms listed in this table and take your own medicine without going to the doctor. Because of the complexity of the causes of bleeding, it is not easy for doctors to figure out the cause at once, especially when the symptoms of similar diseases such as dysentery and ulcerative colitis, etc., it is even more necessary to check from all aspects, and to identify before making a conclusion. How to treat blood in stool? The treatment of blood in stool can not rely solely on taking hemostatic drugs, such as Anluo blood tablets, Xianhe Cao Su Pi, Vitamin K, Vitamin C, hemostatic minerals, Han Panax Ginseng, Colla Corii Asini, Yunnan Baiyao and so on, because such blind hemostasis is often unreliable and ineffective. Even if the effect of hemostasis is achieved temporarily, if the cause of bleeding is not cured, it will still recur, and sometimes the diagnosis and treatment will be delayed. There is a poem in Chinese medicine that says: “See phlegm, see phlegm, see blood, see blood; can know the fun, only for the doctor in the master.” That is to say that the treatment of disease must not be satisfied with the headache to treat the head, foot pain, see suffering from phlegm only to treat phlegm, bleeding only to stop bleeding, to find out the root cause of effective treatment, can understand this reason, only counted as a highly skilled doctor. Therefore, when you see bleeding in the stool, you must find out the cause of the bleeding, and only after a clear diagnosis can you carry out correct and effective treatment.