What symptom is ulcerative colitis

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Ulcerative colitis is a chronic nonspecific inflammatory disease of the colon and rectum whose etiology is not very clear. The lesions are limited to the mucosa and submucosa of the large intestine. Most of the lesions are located in the sigmoid colon and rectum, and can also extend to the descending colon or even the whole colon. The course of disease is long, often recurrent. This disease can be seen at any age, but it is most common at 20-30 years old. Now let's talk about the symptoms of ulcerative colitis

What symptom is ulcerative colitis

1. Except for a few patients with acute onset, the general onset is slow and the severity of the disease is different. The main symptoms are diarrhea, excretion of feces containing blood, pus and mucus, often accompanied by paroxysmal colonic spasmodic pain, and tenesmus, which can be relieved after defecation.

2. Fulminant type is rare. The onset of the disease is rapid, the disease develops rapidly, the amount of diarrhea is large, often bloody stool. The body temperature can rise up to 40 ℃. In severe cases, the symptoms of systemic poisoning appear. Disease does not heal for a long time, can appear emaciation, anemia, nutritional disorders, weakness and so on. Some patients had extraintestinal manifestations, such as erythema nodosum, iritis, chronic active hepatitis and pericholangitis.

3. Mild patients have mild symptoms, diarrhea less than 5 times a day. Severe diarrhea more than 5 times a day, for watery diarrhea or bloody stool, abdominal pain, fever symptoms, body temperature can be more than 38.5 ℃, pulse rate more than 90 times / min.

matters needing attention

1. Pay attention to the combination of work and rest, not too tired; Patients with fulminant, acute and severe chronic type should stay in bed. 2. Pay attention to clothes and keep cool and warm; Proper physical exercise to enhance the physique. 3. Generally, you should eat soft, digestible, nutritious and caloric food. Should be a small number of meals, supplement a variety of vitamins. Do not eat raw, cold, greasy and cellulosic food. 4. Pay attention to food hygiene to avoid intestinal infection inducing or aggravating the disease. Avoid alcohol, tobacco, spicy food, milk and dairy products. 5. Keep a good mood, avoid mental stimulation and relieve all kinds of mental pressure.