proctitis – colon disease

types proctitis

Given the etiology of the disease, in medicine emit several types of proctitis:

1. alimentary proctitis. Formation of this type of disease associated with the patient's eating habits. Inflammatory process rectal mucosa promotes abundant hot and spicy food, as well as excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages.
2. stagnant. It develops when regular constipation, when hard stool in the process of passing through the intestines hurt him.
3. radiation proctitis It occurs after radiation therapy, which process is carried out at oncological, with localization in the pelvis.
4. proctitis parasite provokes the invasion of these parasites, how dizenteriynaya amoeba and trichomonad.
5. gonorrheal proctitis. The reason for its development is the availability of gonococcal infection.

There are two forms of the disease: acute and chronic, which differ in the course of the disease.

acute proctitis

The disease is manifested only the surfaceostnymi changes on mucosal surfaces. This fact reflect the classification of the forms of proctitis.

1. catarrhal form the disease is characterized by erythema, redness. In turn, it is divided into:

• catarrhal-hemorrhagic form, during which there melkotochechnye hemorrhage – scattered hemorrhage;
• catarrhal-purulent proctitis, when traces of pus visible;
• catarrhal-mucous form, in the background there is a presence of mucus congestion.

2. erosive proctitis - a defect in the mucosal surface (erosion). When healing of scars on the mucous membrane was not formed.

3. polypoid proctitis. For this form of the disease characterized by a large number of polyps, which protrude above the surface.

The chronic form of proctitis

The disease develops gradually. In this case, the mucous membrane has a deep lesions. There are the following forms of chronic proctitis:

1. hypertrophic. It is characterized by looseness, thickening and swelling of mucosal folds.
2. atrophic proctitis, during which the mucous membrane thins, become thin-skinned, and wrinkles are smoothed.
3. ulcerative proctitis characterized by deep lesions of the mucous patches – I am with you.

The main signs and symptoms of proctitis

Symptoms proctitis isolated forms of the disease based on.

For acute proctitis main symptom is pain in the rectum. Simultaneously with pain and bloody observed or purulent discharge from the anus. Unpleasant sensation of pain significantly enhanced during defecation. Possible fever.

Concomitant symptoms of this disease are the forms: pain in the perineum, which are given to the lower back or genitals, constipation (diarrhea), where traces of blood visible, burning and itching in the anus.

Develop these symptoms may be from a few hours to a few days. While the symptoms of chronic proctitis develop over a long period of time and they are characterized by acute phase, are followed by periods of silence.

For the chronic form of the disease in the acute stage characterized by recurrent pain in the holes anusovogo, the rectum or the left side of the iliac region.

During remission (attenuation) During chronic proctitis does not cause any untoward pain. In this case, the main symptom protrudes mucus in the stool. If gonorrhea is often a form of proctitis rectal constriction, which entails constipation.