Passage of blood through your rectum with or without stools is called rectal bleeding. This is not a disease but is a symptom of various harmless or life threatening conditions like cancer of the bowels or rectum. Depending on colour of the blood, character of passage, relation to stool passage and various other accompanying symptoms […]
Abdominal discomfort, pain, bloating of the upper tummy is known as dyspepsia. It is not a disease by itself but a collection of symptoms mostly related to meals. Patient may feel nauseated and can have early satiety with feeling of fullness of the abdomen. Some may use this term to describe indigestion. Mild dyspepsia lasting
Feeling of burning pain in the middle of the chest, getting sour taste in the mouth, regular burping, tightening feeling in the lower chest may be due to reflux. However most importantly it is necessary to exclude these symptoms are not due to a heart attack. If you get any of the above symptoms suddenly
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Anal canal is surrounded by a muscular structure called the ‘sphincter’. This help in maintaining the control of the passage of stools(solid or liquid state) and gas – Continence. Lower anal canal is lined by a spongy tissue called anal cushions. These help in maintaining continence to gas and liquid stool. Piles are structurally defective
If you have got pain in the anal region with tenderness at a particular point with fever this may be due to an abscess. Abscess is a collection of pus due to an infection. It can be extremely painful or may only cause a discomfort during passage of stools. Most of the time this happens
If you noticed a lump in your abdominal wall which comes out on standing and goes in by lying down it is most probably a hernia. Commonest area to get hernia in men is in the groin region i.e either side just above the start of your legs in females it is around the umbilicus