What are the symptoms and dangers of colon polyps?

Colon polyp refers to an extra polyp in the patient's colon. The causes of colon polyp may be related to viral infection, aging, drinking, smoking and other bad habits. After the development of colon polyps, it is easy to cause blood in the stool and cause inflammation, and the patient may also experience abdominal distension, pain and other symptoms. Let’s take a closer look at the symptoms and dangers of colon polyps:

1. Blood in the stool

Patients with colon polyps will have intermittent blood in the stool or blood on the surface of the stool. The color of the blood is mostly bright red. If secondary inflammatory infection occurs, mucus or bloody mucus in the stool may appear. Patients will have tenesmus, or even constipation or increased frequency of bowel movements. If the polyp is located close to the anus, the polyp may protrude from the anus.

2. Changes in bowel habits

Changes in bowel habits mainly include changes in the frequency and timing of bowel movements, or unexplained constipation or diarrhea. If constipation and diarrhea occur alternately, you must pay attention, as this may be a manifestation of colon polyps.

3. Abnormal stool characteristics

For normal people, the stool should be round in shape, but for patients with colon polyps, the stool may become thinner or flat due to the squeezing of the polyps, and sometimes even contain blood.

4. Abdominal pain

This situation is relatively rare in patients with colon polyps. Generally speaking, it occurs in patients with more severe colon polyps. Larger polyps can cause intussusception, resulting in intestinal obstruction and abdominal pain.

5. Prolapse

When polyps are large or numerous, gravity pulls on the intestinal mucosa, causing it to gradually separate from the muscle layer and prolapse downward. The traction caused by the patient's defecation movement and the stimulation of intestinal peristalsis can relax the mucosal layer around the base of the rectum, which may lead to rectal prolapse.

6. Intestinal irritation symptoms

When intestinal peristalsis pulls on polyps, intestinal irritation symptoms may occur, such as abdominal discomfort, abdominal pain, diarrhea, bloody stools, tenesmus, etc.!