What’s with the finger-sized stools?

Finger thickness of stool, usually consider constipation, rectal polyps, rectal tumors and other conditions, patients should be based on the specific causes of the disease under the guidance of the doctor reasonable treatment.
1. Constipation: the more common digestive symptoms, there can be a thin stool shape, the nature of the stool is more dry, hard, accompanied by a decrease in the number of bowel movements and defecation difficulties, it is recommended that the patient eat more fibrous food, or oral lactulose, Ma Ren Lunji Pills and other medications to soften the stool, lubricate the stool, relieve constipation, if necessary, under the guidance of a doctor to use suppositories or enema treatment.
2. Rectal polyp: it is a bulging lesion in the rectum, which can cause the change of stool shape, and when combined with infection, it can appear mucus, pus and blood stools, as well as urgency and heaviness (discomfort in the lower abdomen, wanting to defecate very much, and a feeling of incomplete defecation after defecation); it can be removed by proctoscopy or sigmoidoscopy with electrocautery, and if there are malignant changes, it should be enlarged by surgery.
3. Rectal tumor: the cancer invades and stimulates the rectum, in addition to the change of stool shape, there is blood or mucus in the stool, accompanied by the feeling of incomplete bowel movement, and there is lower abdominal pain in the late stage, surgical resection is the main treatment mode for patients with rectal tumor.
Surgical resection is the main treatment for rectal tumor patients. Stool with the thickness of a finger is also seen in other reasons, which need to go to the hospital in time to find out the reasons, make a clear diagnosis as soon as possible and give reasonable and standardized treatment.