The strong earthquake in Japan has touched the hearts of the world, nuclear leakage, post-disaster reconstruction, health and health what to do after the earthquake? Anal experts point out that because rectal cancer often has no typical features at the beginning, some patients only show changes in stool habits and varying degrees of stool bleeding, and thus are often misdiagnosed as hemorrhoids. For some patients who have suffered from hemorrhoids before, bleeding stools are rightfully mistaken as a sign of recurrence of hemorrhoids. However, we all overlook the fact that bleeding stool is also one of the early symptoms of all rectal cancers. Then how to distinguish bleeding hemorrhoids from rectal cancer bleeding? There are many reasons for bleeding in stool, which cause many patients to mistake their condition and worsen it by blindly treating it indiscriminately. In clinical practice, there are some patients who mistake hemorrhoid blood in stool and rectal cancer blood in stool to cause serious consequences. Here is how you can distinguish blood in stool from hemorrhoids and rectal cancer. Blood from hemorrhoids is usually bright red, while blood from rectal cancer is usually darker than blood from hemorrhoids; blood from hemorrhoids tends to be drop by drop, while about 80% of rectal cancer has bleeding in stool. And the amount of blood can sometimes be on the high side. Although the blood of both hemorrhoids and rectal cancer is first blood and then stool (while most of the stomach bleeding is first stool and then blood), rectal cancer sometimes often has blood and stool intermingled. In addition, sticking a finger in the anus is one of the most effective ways to check. This is because most hemorrhoids and rectal cancers occur in areas that can be reached by the finger. If you feel some raised pellets inside the anus when you reach in with your finger, you have hemorrhoids. If you feel a cauliflower lump in the intestine or an ulcer with a raised edge and a sunken center, and find that the intestinal cavity is so narrow that only one finger can fit in it; after examination, blood, thick fluid and mucus are found on the finger sleeve, you are most likely to have rectal cancer. Considering the complexity of confirming the diagnosis of rectal cancer, it is recommended that patients with bleeding stools, with or without hemorrhoids, should go to the hospital regularly for a rectal or colonoscopy by a doctor. When symptoms such as bloody stools, which are often associated with hemorrhoids, are found, it is important to consider ruling out other diseases of the intestinal tract. During the treatment of hemorrhoids, if the symptoms do not improve significantly over a long period of time or if there is recurrent bleeding in the stool, it should also be taken seriously. Don’t let a small hemorrhoid delay the diagnosis of a disease such as rectal cancer.