What Is a Digital Rectal Exam?
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- A method of examining the rectum by finger.
- Name
- Digital rectal examination
- category
- Special inspection
Normal digital rectal examination
- normal.
Clinical significance of digital rectal examination
- (1) Severe tenderness, seen in anal fissures and infections; (2) Tenderness accompanied by fluctuations in abscesses around the anus and rectum; (3) Touching soft, smooth and elastic masses, mostly rectal polyps; ) Rectal cancer should be considered when touching a hard, uneven mass; (5) The surface of the finger cuffs after the diagnosis has mucus, pus or blood, indicating inflammation or accompanying tissue destruction, and smear microscopy should be taken if necessary Or make a bacteriological examination to help diagnosis.
Precautions for digital rectal examination
- Precautions for self-treatment (1) It is better to form a habit of regular bowel movements. (2) Reduce the posture that increases abdominal pressure, such as squatting and holding your breath. Avoid sedentary, long standing, long running and overworked. (3) Avoid foods that are hot, greasy, rough, and scum, and avoid tobacco, alcohol, and coffee. (4) Eat more foods that have bowel heat, nourish the nutritional mucous membranes, and have a laxative and hemostatic effect, such as raw pear juice, coriander juice, coriander juice, reed root juice, celery juice, carrots, white radish (cooked food), bitter gourd, and eggplant , Cucumber, spinach, golden needles, cabbage, egg yolk, apple, fig, banana, black sesame, walnut meat, white fungus, etc. (5) Be cheerful, don't get angry. The mood is not wide, the irritability and depression will cause the intestinal mucosa to contract, and the blood will not flow smoothly. (6) Reduce sexual intercourse. Excessive intercourse will make the intestinal mucosa congested. Aggravated bleeding.
Digital Rectal Examination Related Diseases
- Metachromatic white matter malnutrition, juvenile polyps, fecal incontinence, acute bacterial prostatitis, anal incontinence, pediatric rectal prolapse, elderly constipation, neonatal vomiting, gastrointestinal bleeding, congenital rectal and peripheral organ fistula
Rectal examination related symptoms
- Pyrexia, abdominal pain, diarrhea, pus and blood, urination, rectal pain, rectal prolapse, repeated rectal deformity, rectal crisis, rectal stenosis, thick gelatinous substance in urine