The difference between colitis and bowel cancer

Enteritis is a common disease in our life, and its main symptoms diarrhea, discharge of pus and blood stools, mucus and blood stools or bloody stools, often accompanied by urgency, with abdominal pain bowel movements relieved by the characteristics of. Some patients show loss of appetite, abdominal distension, nausea, vomiting and hepatomegaly; there may be pressure pain in the left lower abdomen, and sometimes a spastic colon can be palpated. Common systemic symptoms include wasting, weakness, fever, anemia, etc. A small number of patients in the chronic course of the disease, the condition suddenly worsens or the first onset is fulminant, manifesting severe diarrhea, 10-30 times a day, excretion of feces containing blood, pus, mucus, such as enteritis is more serious should be treated at the hospital as soon as possible, if necessary, colonoscopy to clarify the diagnosis.

Colon cancer is a common malignant tumor of the gastrointestinal tract occurring in the colon, early symptoms: at the earliest stage, there can be bloating, discomfort, indigestion-like symptoms, and then there are changes in bowel habits, such as increased frequency of stools, diarrhea or constipation, and abdominal pain before stools. Later, mucus stool or mucopurulent blood stool may appear. In severe cases, symptoms of toxicity, intestinal obstruction or abdominal masses may appear. Late manifestations: signs of liver metastasis such as jaundice, ascites, and swelling, and signs of distant tumor spread and metastasis such as cachexia, anterior rectal mass, and supraclavicular lymph node enlargement.

In patients with colitis, the desire to defecate after abdominal pain, pain relief after defecation and subsequent release of the feeling of wanting to defecate, each
The first time, the patient will be able to eliminate the stool, which may be mixed with mucus and thick blood, and there is usually no obvious obstruction, such as abdominal distension without farting. In contrast, patients with colon cancer, pus and blood, mucus and feces do not mix, but adhere to the surface of the feces, abdominal cramping, defecation will not be significantly reduced after the stool, defecation is not clean, pain mostly in the late stage.