Proctalgia
Proctalgia: Introduction
Pain in the rectum. Another name for the condition is proctodynia. Proctalgia is diagnosed when other medical causes of rectal pain such as hemorrhoids, anal abscesses, anal fissures and certain medications can be ruled out. Proctalgia fugax is a type of proctalgia involving severe rectal pain which occurs without any obvious cause.
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Medical Textbooks Online about Proctalgia
Medical Books Excerpts
- Hemorrhoids
- "Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition)" (2005)
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- Rectal pain
- "Professional Guide to Signs & Symptoms (Fifth Edition)" (2006)
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- Rectal pain
- "Signs & Symptoms: A 2-in-1 Reference for Nurses" (2007)
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Book excerpts: Copyright © 2008 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
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Misdiagnosis and Proctalgia
Mild worm infections undiagnosed in children: Human worm infestations, esp. threadworm, can be overlooked in some cases,
because it may cause only mild or even absent symptoms.
Although the most common symptoms are anal itch (or vaginal itch),
which are obvious in severe cases,
milder conditions may fail to be noticed in children.
In particular, it may interfere with the child's good night's sleep.
Threadworm is a condition to consider in children with symptoms such as bedwetting (enuresis),
difficulty sleeping, irritability, or other sleeping symptoms.
Visual inspection of the region can often see the threadworms, at night when they are active,
but they can also be missed this way, and multiple inspections can be warranted if worms are suspected.
See the introduction to threadworm....read more »
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Pain in the rectum
- (Source - WordNet 2.1)
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