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 […]
Our digestive tract is lined from mouth to anus by a very thin cellular layer called epithelium. The cellular type, composition and function differs to each other according to the area or the organ of the bowel. The lining of the gullet or oesophagus is different to the lining of the stomach. Oesophageal lining
Fistula is a discharging non healing recurrent wound in the vicinity of the anus. Most of the time these occur following a ‘perianal abscess’. These wounds do communicate with the anus. Some of these may have pus collections in relation to them. Depending on the site of internal opening of the fistula in the rectum
One of my young patients complained of feeling of “passage of tiny glass pieces” while going to the toilet. This is accompanied with severe burning pain and she had noticed little blood every now and then while passing stools. On examination we found her to have an anal fissure; an ‘acute anal fissure’ to be
A 51 yr old mother of 3 children came to see me complaining of right upper abdominal pain, fever, vomiting, loss of appetite. An ultrasound scan on this patient and blood investigations confirmed this to be a condition called cholecystitis. Cholecystitis is inflammation or infection of the gallbladder. This can be in a gallbladder which
Presence of stones in the biliary system is called gallstone disease. Most common location of this is the gallbladder – Cholelithiasis ; a pouch in the biliary tree which temporarily stores bile coming from the liver, in addition stones can be found in the tubes which transport bile into the gut called ‘common bile duct’