Blood in stool like menstruation, physiological causes may be related to eating red dragon fruit, etc. Pathological causes generally suggest that the color of stool is bright red, mostly caused by lower gastrointestinal tract diseases.
1. Physiological reasons: when eating too much red dragon fruit and other foods, it can cause red-colored stools, like blood in the stool.
2. Pathological causes: when suffering from intestinal tuberculosis, intestinal typhoid fever, hookworm and other small intestinal diseases; acute bacillary dysentery, ulcerative colitis, colonic polyps and other colonic diseases; rectal anorectal injuries, rectal polyps, hemorrhoids, fissures and other rectal anorectal diseases can be caused by the lower gastrointestinal tract bleeding, and sometimes the color of the blood in the stool is more bright red.
In addition, systemic diseases such as leukemia, thrombocytopenic purpura, hemophilia, etc. can also cause abnormal coagulation mechanism, resulting in blood in stool.
When blood in the stool appears, it is usually necessary to consult a doctor in time to clarify the cause under the doctor’s guidance so as to treat it actively.