Do you need to be hospitalized if you have blood in your stool?

Blood in the stool in the form of mucus strips is often seen in cases of hemorrhoids, anal fissures, ulcerative colitis, and rectal polyps. Symptoms are not serious and can be kept out of the hospital for the time being. If the attack is recurrent and has severe clinical symptoms, it should be hospitalized promptly. Patients with less severe symptoms and infrequent episodes can be temporarily not hospitalized: 1. Hemorrhoids, anal fissure: patients with hemorrhoids or anal fissure caused by prolonged constipation, excessive straining to defecate, etc., may have the symptom of blood in the stool with sticky strips. You can follow the doctor’s instructions with potassium permanganate solution sitz bath, external hemorrhoid cream. 2. ulcerative colitis: ulcerative colitis patients, may have to pay time stools are not shaped as well as diarrhea and constipation alternately, stools with blood with sticky stripes and other symptoms. You can follow the doctor’s instructions to apply mesalazine or salazosulfapyridine and other drugs. 3. Rectal polyps: patients with rectal polyps, constipation, hard defecation, resulting in polyp mucous membrane tearing, there may be mucous stripes with blood in the stool symptoms. You can follow the doctor’s instructions to apply olsalazine, indomethacin and other drugs. Patients with recurrent symptoms such as blood in the stool, abdominal pain, weight loss, urgency (discomfort in the lower abdomen, wanting to defecate very much, and a feeling of incomplete defecation after defecation), anal pain, swelling, etc. should be hospitalized. Because hemorrhoids, anal fissure, rectal polyps are more serious can consider surgical treatment; ulcerative colitis serious patients, should also be hospitalized for a period of systemic treatment. Repeatedly stool with sticky stripes with blood should be timely medical treatment, standardized treatment under the guidance of a professional doctor, so as not to delay the condition.