Main causes and symptoms of proctitis

The causes of proctitis

To date, one of the main causes of proctitis are the eating habits of the patient, namely:

• incorrect and unbalanced diet;
• a large number of hot and spicy dishes;
• alcohol abuse.

Besides, proctitis develops due to the following factors:

• chronic constipation, which are accompanied by venous stasis in the walls of the rectum, become a cause of proctitis stagnant. After all, blood stagnation hurts mucosa.
• Invasion of various types of worms.
• supercooling.
• Common diseases of the pelvic organs: vulvovaginitis, cystitis, prostatitis, endometritis, coleitis.
• Diseases of the rectum, who do not have an inflammatory nature - Hemorrhoids.
• Chronic Bowel Disease, having inflammatory character - Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
• Acute intestinal infections - salmonellosis, amebnaya and dysentery bakterialynaya, campylobacteriosis and other infections.
• disease, sexually transmitted, namely syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, cytomegalovirus infection, herpes simplex and other.
• Tuberculosis.
• intestinal dysbiosis, which was caused by antibiotic treatment or other medication.
• Radiation therapy, directed to the treatment of malignant tumors in the pelvic organs.
• Injuries foreign bodies.
• anal.

Depending on the above reasons the disease and distinguish its shape and form.

Main symptoms of proctitis

It is worth noting, that the symptoms of proctitis may be different depending on the cause of the disease, and even at one and the same form of the disease in different people may exhibit different symptoms.

The main features include inflammation of the rectum unpleasant burning sensation or itching in the back hole, as well as a small selection of red or yellow. In cases localization above anus diseases marked painful urge to defecate, pain during bowel movements bowel, blood pyorrhea, low-grade fever and constipation.

Often, proctitis, which develops because of non-traditional sexual relations (anal sex), I do not have any signs of illness, as it does not cause discomfort to the patient. In this case, the disease may be detected only during a confrontation or laboratory examination. Often, proctitis confused with the inflammation of the sigmoid colon, That is why the definition of the disease is very important to be examined by a doctor.