Misdiagnosis of Discharge

Misdiagnosis and Discharge

Antibiotics often causes diarrhea: The use of antibiotics are very likely to cause some level of diarrhea in patients. The reason is that antibiotics kill off not only "bad" bacteria, but can also kill the "good" bacteria in the gut. This leads to "digestive imbalance" where there are too few remaining "good" bacteria in the digestive system. The treatment is typically to use "probiotics", such as by eating yoghurt cultures containing more of the good bacteria. See digestive imbalance and probiotics.

Painful anorectal conditions: Anorectal problems are common and tend to cause serious anxiety in the patient due to its alarming symptoms like extreme pain, discharge, bleeding, pruritus and lumps. Some of the conditions to be kept in mind in order not to miss out on correct condition would include anal fissure, haemorrhoids, perianal abscess and solitary rectal ulcer. Anal fissure can be extremely painful and a careful inspection alone must be done to come to a diagnosis. Perianal abscess presents with throbbing pain, fever and tender swelling can be felt. Look for evidence of a fistula. Bleeding is the main and only symptom in case of haemorrhoids. In solitary ulcer, sigmoidoscopy helps. Management is difficult and a chronic course is common.

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