Rectal prolapse normally describes a medical condition wherein the walls of the rectum protrude through the anus and hence become visible outside the body.
Quick Facts
- Happens due to tissues lining the rectum slip into or get stuck to the anal opening
- Tested and identified through physical exam
- Sometimes it is identified through a rectal exam
- Patients with rectal prolapse are reported to have mass protuberant through the anus
- Mass protrudes from the anus usually after the bowel movement and retracts back when a patient in the standing position
- Sneezing and coughing worsens mass protrusion
- Walking can cause continual prolapse
- With the progression of this disease rectum no longer retracts and the situations gets worse
- Pain is usually from mild to severe sessions
- 10 to 25% of patients also suffer from uterine or bladder prolapse
- 35% also suffer from associated cystocele
- Patients with mucosal prolapse have analogous problems but not exactly of the equal degree
- Patients with internal intussusception often complain of exertion with excretion and a feeling of incomplete withdrawal
- In severe cases only major surgeries can repair the physical hitches that most likely becomes a major cause of prolapse
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