The stool is 'dry and hard at the front, soft and sticky at the back', what's going on? The doctor reminded: or these 3 diseases

36-year-old Mr. Zhou began to have soft stools and bloody stools a month ago. At first, he didn't care. He believes this is due to his recent bad eating habits. But the symptoms continued and didn't ease even after he changed his diet. Occasionally, one day, he saw an article on the search software, saying that this situation may be bowel cancer in the stool and needs to be treated in time.

So, after putting down his mobile phone, he immediately came to our hospital to register. After colonoscopy, the final result showed that the sigmoid colon was swollen and space-occupying, and the initial diagnosis was sigmoid colon cancer. But fortunately, Mr. Zhou's living habits have been very good, so the tumor is benign and can return to normal after resection.

As we all know, defecation is not only a normal physiological metabolic phenomenon, but also an important process for our body to detoxify. It can discharge excess substances, metabolic toxins and garbage in the body to reduce the burden on the body and maintain the normal operation of various body functions.

Therefore, stool can also reflect our physical condition to a certain extent. Therefore, we suggest that you pay attention to your bowel movements, which will allow us to detect physical discomfort in time and make daily adjustments as soon as possible to prevent the condition from getting worse.

Stool reaction healthy? How to see health from stool?

So how to judge your health from the stool situation? Are there any signals that can give us a certain reference?

First of all, we should pay attention to the shape and hardness of the stool. According to relevant research, the shape and hardness of feces are closely related to intestinal peristalsis, and the smoothness of the intestinal wall is closely related. Generally speaking, for people with healthy gastrointestinal tract, the shape of stool is mostly banana, showing a relatively soft shape.

However, if the stool is in other states for a long time, it indicates that there may be problems in the body. For example, if the stools are one after another and relatively hard, it may be constipation; if the stools are thin and accompanied by abdominal pain, it may be caused by indigestion or acute gastroenteritis. At this time, don't ignore it, let it develop. You must go to the hospital for examination in time to determine the cause.

Secondly, the color of feces can also reflect our physical condition. Normal stool color should be yellow, yellow-brown, brown-yellow and other yellows are normal colors. But there are also some special cases, such as eating dragon fruit, the color of the feces will turn red. After eating animal blood or iron supplements, the stool can appear black. These are normal phenomena and you don't need to worry too much.

But if you haven't eaten these foods recently, and the color of your stool has changed inexplicably, it may be a health problem for you. Common: If the stool turns dark red, it should be considered whether it is caused by upper gastrointestinal bleeding. If it is black, it is likely to be an early symptom of gastric cancer.

Finally, the smell of feces can also indicate a problem to some extent. Usually, the smell of feces is the natural smell of rotting food, and it may also be mixed with some ammonia smell. In fact, there is no particularly noticeable and unacceptable smell.

But if you smell poop after using the toilet, it will have a strong fishy smell and smell. Special attention should be paid to this, which may be caused by gastrointestinal bleeding. In addition, if your stool is always sour and accompanied by diarrhea, it is likely to be intestinal fat, sugar indigestion or malabsorption, intestinal fatty acid boundary or gastrointestinal ulcer caused by sugar fermentation, you need to adjust your living habits in time and seek medical treatment .

In conclusion, if your stools are perfect, curved bananas, normal in color and have no noticeable odor, it means your body is healthy and free from digestive disorders.

But now, due to the improvement of living standards and changes in eating habits, gastrointestinal diseases are becoming more and more prevalent. In daily life, many people experience diarrhea and constipation. But some people also have a special phenomenon, the front of the stool is dry and hard, and the back is soft and sticky, so what is this situation? What caused it?

What happened to the stool "hard at the front and soft and sticky at the back"? Consider these questions first

First, insufficient drinking water leads to dehydration in the intestines. Water is the source of life. Without water, many functions of our body cannot function properly. However, few people can really practice drinking 1000ml of water every day. When drinking water is not enough, it will cause our body problems, bearing the brunt of our organ function.

When the body is in a state of water shortage, it will cause the inner wall of the intestinal tract to dry out, slow down the peristalsis of the gastrointestinal tract, and cause feces to accumulate in the intestinal tract, which cannot be discharged smoothly, resulting in dry feces. If at this time, you start to add a lot of water to your body, it will make your stool in a normal state. Therefore, it will occur when defecation is "hard in the front and soft in the back".

Second, an unreasonable diet can lead to the occurrence of gastrointestinal diseases. As the quality of life improves, we can eat a variety of foods every day, so we may form bad eating habits. Bad eating habits will damage our gastrointestinal health, increase many unnecessary burdens, and then induce gastrointestinal diseases, abnormal defecation, and decreased gastrointestinal motility.

In this case, the feces will stay in the body for too long, causing a large amount of feces to "evaporate." When the body feels a bowel movement, the feces that have stayed for too long will become dry and hard, while some new feces behind will become soft. At this time, defecation will also lead to the occurrence of "hard before and soft after defecation".

Third, often sit for a long time and exercise less. For many office workers, they spend most of their day sitting. Studies have shown that the average adult spends 70% of our waking hours sitting every day, in addition to sleep time! If this state lasts for a long time, it will lead to a decrease in our gastrointestinal motility, and it is easy to make feces stay in the intestine. Before the old feces are expelled, new feces are produced. Of course, there will be situations where the front is hard and the back is soft.

If the abnormal stool is caused by lack of exercise, you must move and do not sit for a long time. Otherwise, abnormal stools are just the beginning. If this situation lasts for a long time, it will cause more damage to the body. It was too late to regret it then!

To sum up, generally speaking, if the stool appears "dry and hard at the front, soft and sticky at the back" when we have symptoms, we should give priority to the above three reasons. However, if you do not have the above three bad habits, or have such abnormal behavior after adjusting your living habits, you should consider whether it is caused by the following diseases.

The stool condition cannot be improved for a long time, the doctor reminds: it may be these three diseases

❶Intestinal polyps

If you often defecate hard before and then soft, you should consider whether it is caused by intestinal polyps. If intestinal polyps appear in the intestine, our intestinal blockage can become more and more severe as the polyps grow. The presence of intestinal polyps narrows the lumen of our intestines, causing feces to fail to pass and accumulate in the intestines, becoming dry and hard.

But at the same time, under the influence of polyps, our intestines and stomach will also be damaged, which will affect the digestive function of the intestines to a certain extent. This prevents the stool from forming in the bowel and ends up being soft and sticky. If there is no problem with your living habits, but this happens, you must see a doctor in time. If there are intestinal polyps, the size, quantity and degree of harm of the polyps should be judged through scientific examination, so as not to cause greater harm to health.

❷ Bowel cancer

Although the situation of hard before and soft stool is not necessarily colorectal cancer, but we do not rule out this possibility, because some patients with colorectal cancer do have this symptom. This is mainly because the cancer cells in the intestine continue to grow and multiply, and the tumor will become larger and larger. When the stool is squeezed in the intestine, its shape will change accordingly, causing the front to be hard and then soft. So if the stool is in this state often, don't take it seriously. You have to pay attention to it. You can go to the hospital for a colonoscopy to check for cancer in the bowel.

❸Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Stools that are hard before and then soft can also be caused by irritable bowel syndrome. This is a common gastrointestinal disorder. The main cause of this disease is abnormal gastrointestinal motility, and the high sensitivity of internal organs is the main reason; there are also intestinal infection, intestinal flora disorder, psychological and psychological factors, etc. Its main clinical manifestations are abdominal pain, abdominal distension, abnormal defecation and other adverse symptoms.

This abnormal stool may also be a signal of the three diseases mentioned above. Therefore, we should be vigilant in our daily life