With the increasing improvement of living conditions, people’s diets are becoming richer and richer, but the uncontrolled diet is often the root cause of hemorrhoid attacks, so more and more people suffer from hemorrhoids, blood in the stool is the most common symptom of hemorrhoids, so there are many people who think they are hemorrhoids, and often buy their own medicine to treat them, especially the elderly, often because they are too shy to check, or have had hemorrhoids, etc. Once they have blood in the stool, they think they are hemorrhoids. The result can be imagined if you think you are having an attack of hemorrhoids, or purchase your own medicine, or adjust your diet, and so on, until you can’t relieve your condition and then come to the doctor for examination. The author has been practicing medicine for more than 20 years and has met many patients who thought they had hemorrhoids because of blood in the stool, but the final result was a colorectal tumor, which was not treated in time and seriously delayed the condition. There are actually many causes of blood in the stool, including hemorrhoids, polyps, tumors, colitis and so on, so don’t judge yourself, go to the hospital and your physician will solve your confusion. Just to clarify casually, hemorrhoid bleeding is often bright red and blood in stool does not mix, rectal tumors can do the same, but bleeding from colon tumors is often dark or even black in color, so older people should not forget to observe the color of the stool.