According to a medical journal in America, more than 6,00,000 people are diagnosed with ailments of the colon and are operated each year. These illnesses include bowel disorders, tumors, cancers, obstructions and many more.

While most of the surgeries are successful, cases are often reverted back to the hospital. It may be the lack of an early diagnosis and ignorance to take proper care that lead to such complicated circumstances when it even becomes difficult for doctors to treat this ailment through surgical options. In India, however, the numbers and intensity of bowel disorders are a little bit higher due to many problems; diabetes, gastrointestinal ailments, cholesterol being some of them.

However, it is quite a valuable proverb often skipped by modern people: “Prevention is better than cure.” Following the meaning and suggestion of this proverb, the expert colorectal surgeons of India agree on the point of being on the watch for gastrointestinal and colorectal troubles, which may indicate an urgent surgery. Such a step, of course, minimizes the risks of more dangerous conditions involving the same area of the body in the future.

To understand the need of surgery or, as mentioned, ‘being on the watch’ starts with looking carefully for colorectal or gastrointestinal disease symptoms. Surgeons all over the country, along with other members of their community worldwide, disclosed some of the signs and symptoms of colorectal (or gastrointestinal) issues requiring immediate surgery with medical consultation. These are given below:

• Excessive formation of gas and difficulty passing stool
• Blood in the stool or sudden change of color in the stool
• Delayed movement of bowel
• Abdominal pain and cramps
• Swelling in the abdomen
• High output of ostomy
• Dark urine or not urinating
• Lack of appetite
• Diarrhea
• Nausea
• Vomiting
• Fever
• Irregular Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
Some more serious symptoms that should not also be avoided are
• Pain in the chest
• Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing

While there are many symptoms than these, which advocate for a serious issue in the colorectal and gastrointestinal regions of the body, the mentioned ones are often the most common.
Doctors and surgeons suggest making patients and even healthy people and children aware of these signs and symptoms only to avoid a more threatening situation and risks in the future.
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Address:

Division of GI Surgery, GI Oncology,
Minimal Access and Bariatric Surgery Institute
of Digestive and Hepatobiliary Sciences Medanta -
The Medicity, Sec 38, Gurgaon, Haryana
Phone No: 09999150511
E-mail: [email protected]