Whether or not sigmoiditis is serious is related to the patient’s condition, the type of disease and other factors, and cannot be generalized. Those caused by simple infection can usually be cured after treatment, but in the case of ulcerative colitis, the treatment is generally long and difficult to cure.
Sigmoiditis refers to inflammatory changes in the mucosa of part of the sigmoid colon, which may be caused by pathogenic microorganisms, such as bacteria, or by ulcerative colitis due to intestinal immune abnormalities.
Sigmoiditis due to pathogenic infection is usually not serious when it is treated with aggressive anti-infective therapy and will gradually heal without affecting the patient’s health. However, if the treatment is not timely, resulting in the disease persists for a long time, easy to turn into chronic inflammation, long-term existence, affecting the patient’s normal gastrointestinal function, this time, although not serious, but need long-term treatment.
If the patient’s sigmoiditis belongs to ulcerative colitis, it is relatively serious. If the patient’s condition is mild, it can be controlled after active treatment, but it is difficult to be cured. If the patient’s condition is more serious, there will be repeated diarrhea, mucus-pus-blood stools, abdominal pain, etc., and even further development to cancer, which is more serious and needs to be taken seriously.
Sigmoiditis patients are recommended to seek timely medical treatment, and actively receive treatment, so as not to delay the condition.