A sudden unexplained weight loss of too much weight and a noticeable loss of body weight is something that must be taken seriously.
In 2012, my father began to lose weight, we noticed, and asked him if he had any discomfort, he only said that his appetite was not too good, and often stools, may be poor digestion.
Then my father went to see a Chinese medicine practitioner, who said he had dysentery and prescribed some Chinese medicine, which improved the situation a bit.
At that time, we didn't pay much attention to it, and thought it would be fine if we took a few more Chinese medicines.
Because my father's character is quite stubborn and silent, we communicated less, so I didn't give him continuous care.
In April 2013, one day, my father kept lying in bed and did not get up to eat, and when my mother went to call him to eat, she realized that his stomach was bulging like a pregnant woman of three or four months.
Father's state was obviously painful, and he said he hadn't had a bowel movement for four or five days. That's when we realized the seriousness of the problem and immediately took him to the hospital.
After learning about his father's previous bowel abnormalities, the doctor suspected that there was a tumor in the colon and immediately scheduled a colonoscopy.
But it turned out to be impossible to do, because the colonoscope could not even pass through the colon smoothly, because the tumor had grown to block the colon!
The passage is blocked, so the stool can't come out!
It turned out that my father had frequent bowel movements and diarrhea, which was a sign that the tumor was growing, but due to the lack of medical knowledge and concern for my father, we ignored it until the tumor blocked the large intestine!
In that case, the doctor said that it was impossible to remove the tumor, and the only way was to make an artificial anus, cut off the front end of the colon where the tumor is located, make a hole in the abdomen, pull the head of the colon out of the outside, and then install a bag of stools, so that you can only defecate in this way in the future.
The end of the large tumor remains in the body.
After the surgery, my father lived a life with the tumor***, but because he still smoked and drank after the surgery, half a year later, due to metastasis of the cancer cells, my father passed away because of the fluid in the chest cavity.
Almost eight years have passed, and I still can't let go of my father's illness and death.
If I had more medical knowledge, if I had cared more about him, I would have recognized the problem earlier and arranged for treatment earlier.
But there is no medicine for regrets, all we can do is to cherish the moment, cherish the people around us, and live well every day.
Young female friends may pay more attention to their weight, many people are up in the morning to weigh, and at night before going to bed also weigh, mood changes with the weight change. On the contrary, many middle-aged and elderly people do not pay attention to their own weight at all, clinically we often encounter a month or two of weight loss of more than ten pounds did not pay attention to the weighing before admission to the hospital to find that they have lost weight. Why is weight loss bowel cancer?
First, the symptoms of bowel cancer.
1, bowel cancer overview. Bowel cancer, also known as colon cancer or colorectal cancer, is one of the most common types of cancer in China. And in recent years, the incidence of bowel cancer in China has increased significantly! In 2002, the incidence of colorectal cancer in China was 7%, while in 2015 this data became 13%, the incidence rate has almost doubled! Compared with Westerners, the incidence of colorectal cancer in China is relatively high, and there is another scary feature of bowel cancer in China: a high proportion of young patients, accounting for about 15%.
Regardless of gender, bowel cancer is in the top three of urban cancer incidence
2, common symptoms of bowel cancer. There isn't really much specificity to the symptoms of bowel cancer, meaning that no one symptom is unique to bowel cancer. However, if more than one symptom occurs at the same time, then you definitely need to be highly suspicious if bowel cancer is occurring. Firstly, unexplained change of bowel habit, such as diarrhea, constipation, or diarrhea and constipation; for example, it is obvious that the nature of stool is not the same, the original is banana-like, and now give and dilute; for example, the original one day on the first time, and now several times a day, and always feel that it is not finished. Secondly, stomach pain, hidden pain. Further, fever, significant weight loss, etc. These are systemic symptoms caused by bowel cancer. Finally, pay attention to bleeding in the stool! Symptoms such as bleeding and blood in the stool have been experienced by many people, but make sure you don't always think you have hemorrhoids. Middle-aged and elderly people who have blood in their stools should go to the hospital to check for bowel cancer.
Second, weight loss is not necessarily bowel cancer, but may also be other diseases.
Many cancer patients have weight loss, this is because cancer is a high consumption disease. Tumor cells grow wildly in the body, and they need a lot of energy! Cancer in advanced stages often invades the critical organs and causes corresponding dysfunction, such as frequent gastrointestinal, causing gastrointestinal dysfunction. Well, bowel cancer, as a cancer of the primary and intestinal tract, it certainly affects the absorption of nutrients, which can lead to malnutrition and weight loss. However, note that basically all malignant tumors will be "malignant" in the late stage, and the poor loss of weight.
The father of the apple is thin and bony after cancer
In addition, there are many other diseases that can cause weight loss. For example, hyperthyroidism; hypothalamic syndrome; chronic infections; chronic enteritis; diabetes; chronic undercalorie intake, and so on.
So, there are many reasons for weight loss, and bowel cancer is just one of them, so it is advisable to go to the hospital to find out what the cause is.
If people suddenly lose weight, it should be taken seriously.
Seven years ago, I bought vegetables at the farmers' market, and met a retired colleague who used to work with me in the same department. After greeting him, I saw that he had lost a lot of weight, and his original red, round face had turned into a melon face, and his complexion was very dull. I asked him with a smile, "Why are you so thin? It is forging the body to lose weight ah!" He also smiled and replied: "It is forging the body thin, all right, quite good."
About half a year later, I returned to my own home from my daughter's place (in her daughter's home with grandchildren), with the same unit of the former retired some of the old man went out to travel, and by the way, asked about the aforementioned colleague, the results of which they told me that he died a month ago, less than a month from the examination of the late-stage liver cancer went away. When I heard about this, I was a bit shocked and felt a bit sudden, not believing that he could have passed away so quickly! I was thinking of the time I saw him when I greeted him and talked about it with my fellow travelers.
In fact, when I said hello to him, he had already had cancer for some time, but his symptoms weren't obvious at the time, so he didn't think he was losing weight, and even thought it was normal to lose weight because he was exercising his body.
As a matter of fact, many cancer patients experience different degrees of weight loss before diagnosis. As far as cancer is concerned, no matter what kind of cancer it is, generally when it comes to the late stage, the weight will drop rapidly, which is mainly due to the fact that the cancer cells have to devour a lot of nutrients in the human body. This is mainly due to the fact that cancer cells have to eat up a large amount of nutrients in the body. Therefore, whenever such a situation occurs in a person, great attention should be paid to it, and it must not be taken lightly. In this regard, I also have a kind of reverse cognition, if the body appears to have some kind of discomfort or appearance, but as long as the weight in the observation of a certain period of time in the case does not fall, very stable, people do not appear to be thin, the body generally will not have a big problem.
A few years ago, I had two unexplained nosebleeds in the summer, and my partner called me to the hospital for a checkup, but I wasn't alarmed and said, "Don't be busy, I'll observe for a week and then say, if my weight is stable and doesn't go down, there won't be a problem. At that time, I suspected that it was caused by continuous eating of cold office ginger (I especially love to eat cold office ginger). Later on, the facts also proved that my knowledge was correct. That is, the two nosebleeds occurred after eating cold ginger continuously, which may be due to the fact that my physique is not suitable for eating too much ginger. So in recent years, I have rarely eaten cold ginger, and I have never had a nosebleed again.
By recognizing both the positive and negative aspects, a person who has not intentionally lost weight but has a sudden weight loss should be taken seriously, which can be said to be a very important indicator, but also a very dangerous signal.
Unexplained excessive weight loss is something that should be considered to rule out malignant tumors, not just colorectal cancer, but many cancers that may have wasting as a first symptom.
There are many reasons for weight loss, such as: insufficient intake of nutrients needed by the body, dieting and weight loss, anorexia; gastrointestinal tract dysfunction, poor digestion and absorption; persistent psychoemotional factors, nervousness, anxiety, excessive staying up too late; and other metabolic disorders such as diabetes, hyperthyroidism, and so on.
If life is not found in the existence of triggers that lead to wasting, but in a relatively short period of time, there is a significant loss of weight, for example, weight more than 5Kg or more, it is necessary to consider whether there is a tumor factor.
This situation is especially common in digestive tract tumors, such as stomach cancer, colon cancer, pancreatic cancer, etc. When cancer occurs in these parts, it is difficult to attract people's attention because of the lack of typical symptoms in the early stage. With the growth of tumor and some active substances secreted by the tumor, it will increase the human body's consumption, affecting the human body's eating and reducing the absorption of nutrients, which will lead to gradual thinning and may be accompanied by decreased appetite, abdominal distension, and other symptoms. Accompanied by decreased appetite, abdominal distension, nausea, fatigue, chronic anemia and some atypical symptoms.
For middle-aged and elderly people, if there is no reason to lose weight, or should first consider the tumor factor, it is necessary to consult the oncology specialists, do a more comprehensive cancer checkup, to exclude the possibility of malignant tumors.
A sudden weight loss of 15 pounds, uneasy to go to the hospital, a check is actually intestinal cancer, this is why?
If you usually eat normally, but in a period of time the weight suddenly dropped significantly, then we must be vigilant is not bowel cancer. Cancer can cause a lot of wear and tear on a person's body, so if you suddenly lose weight for no reason, then it's best to go for a colonoscopy.
In addition to this, the following symptoms should also be considered whether it is caused by bowel cancer:
1. Changes in defecation habits, the middle-aged and the elderly should pay particular attention to. With the growth of intestinal tumor, the excretion of feces will be hindered, thus causing the change of bowel habit.
2, blood in stool. If blood in stool is not caused by hemorrhoids, and it occurs more than once, then we should be alert to whether it is bowel cancer, about 80% of rectal cancer patients have blood in stool.
3, digestive symptoms. If there are frequent symptoms such as abdominal distension, indigestion, etc., after excluding other gastrointestinal diseases, we should also consider whether it is caused by bowel cancer.
4. Abdominal mass. About half of the patients with bowel cancer will have abdominal mass, which is irregular in nature and has certain mobility, so it is important to pay attention to this kind of mass if it appears.
The health interface to the 13 million medical practitioners and the broader population of the big health, every day to provide medical and health hot spots, policy, cognition, views and interesting science and technology content, look forward to your every share and interaction.I'm Dr. Shadow. The weight loss of 15 pounds in a short period of time should be considered as a possibility of chronic wasting disease, in which the possibility of cancer is very high, must go to the hospital to rule out the next.
Sudden weight loss, in medical terminology, is progressive weight loss with no apparent cause. Cancer tumor growth, need a lot of nutrients to supply, so the body weight will continue to lose. When you go to the hospital, the doctor will usually ask whether there is any change in your weight recently. If you hear the patient say that there is a significant drop in weight, you have to exclude your own weight loss or mood anxiety and other reasons. If the patient says that his weight has dropped significantly, it is important to rule out weight loss or mood anxiety. If the patient is still living as usual and losing weight, then the doctor will worry that it may be cancer. This is the time to focus on checking.
Many of the diagnoses of bowel cancer that we see in older people are based on weight loss and dark stools. This makes it easy to think of bowel cancer. Black stools, bloody stools, alternating constipation and diarrhea, and weight loss are all typical symptoms of bowel cancer and must be taken seriously. In addition, other cancers such as lung cancer, breast cancer, liver cancer and tuberculosis can also present with weight loss.
Unexplained weight loss is a red flag for malignant tumors!
My friend's mother, plain body hard, optimistic and lively old lady, daily square dance, at the end of 2018, life as usual case, the body suddenly began to lose weight, just at the beginning of the old lady is quite happy, "haha, with the fat bo fight for many years, dying of old age, but instead of losing weight successfully". A month down to lose 10 pounds, this time the old lady is still not any discomfort, there is no bowel cancer common symptoms such as abnormal bowel movements, her son felt wrong, called me to ask for advice, I suggest to go to the physical examination to see, the results found to be rectal cancer, and quickly hospitalized to do surgery. The old lady had no obvious symptoms of bowel cancer from the beginning to the end, just a "sudden loss of weight".
Wasting weight is a danger sign for cancer!
The biggest "evil" of cancer cells is that they are not genetically controlled and grow in a disorderly manner, eroding normal tissues and organs, and leading to the death of the body's malignant fluid and multi-organ failure. The rapid growth of cancer cells need to consume a lot of energy and sugar, resulting in accelerated liver metabolism, fat tissue and muscle consumption of energy, less fat, less muscle, the result is a progressive weight loss, will be more and more thin.
In the late stage, cancer patients even appeared malignant fluid, this consumption as the main feature of the symptoms, mainly caused by cytokines released by the tumor and the body's release of cytokines to the whole body metabolic disorders as the characteristics of the integrated symptoms of increased energy consumption, coupled with the impact of advanced patients due to the condition or the impact of radiation and chemotherapy and other treatments, decreased appetite, energy intake is reduced, and ultimately lead to a negative energy balance, manifested as weight loss, activity weakness, muscle atrophy, fat consumption, anemia and edema. According to current cancer statistics, 60-80% of late-stage cancer patients experience cachexia, and 10-25% die directly from cachexia.
In short, if there is no obvious dietary factors in life, no influence of mental stress, unexplained significant weight loss, we should be alert to malignant tumors, including bowel cancer. Bowel cancer is a common tumor in our country, but the current treatment means and treatment effect are good, once found should be actively treated, like my friend's mother, 2 years past after surgery, the old lady Health status is very good.The subject of this case reminds me of a case, a woman because in the weight loss, two months suddenly lost 15 to 20 pounds, thought it was successful weight loss, the results were also found out rectal cancer.
Unexplained weight loss is a pathological abnormality of the body, mostly caused by specific diseases.Diabetes caused by thinning is due to insufficient insulin secretion caused by glucose metabolism disorders, blood glucose increase, followed by the impact of protein and fat metabolism, resulting in malabsorption of nutrients in the body, resulting in the body of thinning.
Hyperthyroidism causes wasting due to hyperthyroidism, increased basal metabolism, increased consumption and wasting.
In addition, there are some chronic diseases, such as gastric and duodenal ulcer, chronic atrophic gastritis, cirrhosis of the liver and so on can cause wasting. The reason why bowel cancer can also cause wasting is that the tumor needs nutrition to grow, and it competes with other organs for nutrients, which leads to wasting.
Colorectal cancer has few symptoms in the early stage because of its insidious location, but as the tumor grows bigger, symptoms such as change in bowel habit, change in shape of stool, bloody stool, sticky night stool, constipation and diarrhea alternately, unexplained abdominal pain, and lethargy and fatigue may appear.
In addition to weight loss, blood in the stool and other intestinal discomfort may be more common, but many people will not take this situation as seriously as the subject, and seek medical attention in a timely manner; and some people wait until the symptoms are already very obvious, which leads to the cancer, once discovered, has already reached the middle or late stage.
Early detection of colorectal cancer should not ignore the subtle changes in the body, and if you feel unwell, please seek medical treatment in time.Bowel cancer is actually a very preventable type of cancer, because it usually takes 5-10 years for bowel cancer to develop from a small polyp to cancer, which gives people enough time to find it and remove it!
If you can get screened for bowel cancer early and remove bowel polyps in time, you can eliminate the cancer potential; even if it's a malignant tumor, if you find it early and get it treated at an early stage, the five-year post-surgery survival rate will be as high as 90%.
Enteroscopy is the best way to detect intestinal lesions and prevent colorectal cancer.Enteroscopy Tips:
If you don't feel well, you should seek medical attention if you have any abnormalities such as: change in bowel habit, change in shape of stool, bloody stool, sticky night stool, alternating between constipation and diarrhea, unexplained abdominal pain, lethargy, or fatigue, etc.
If you have any problems with your bowels, you may need to seek medical attention;
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Considering that heredity and age are important influencing factors for colorectal cancer, it is recommended that all people over the age of 50 undergo regular screening colonoscopy; people over the age of 40 with a family history of bowel cancer or high-risk intestinal polyps should pay more attention to the need for regular checkups.
Hello everyone, I am an anorectal surgeon, daily life, if we appear in 1 month weight loss is generally the first to suspect whether there is diabetes, but there will also be accompanied by symptoms of polydipsia, polyuria, if these reasons are excluded, we will suspect that is the tumor consumptive weight loss, so this is the time we will be screened to see which one of the cancer causes, and then we will be screened to see which one of the cancer causes, so we will be screened to see which one of the cancer causes. So this is the only time we will screen to see if it is caused by a type of cancer, so what other diseases can cause weight loss? So what other diseases can cause weight loss and how can we find out if it's a tumor? The following listen to me to talk about it.
What are the diseases that can cause a sudden weight loss of 15 pounds?1. Hyperthyroidism can lead to weight loss
We all know that hyperthyroidism is a big neck, eyes, and thinness is also a common clinical manifestation of hyperthyroidism, because too much thyroid hormone leads to the body of the thyroid toxicity, the weight of the body can be a short period of time to appear significant decline. Encountering this kind of situation, is losing weight girls can not be too happy, this kind of violent thin, may be suffering from severe hyperthyroidism or other diseases.
Dr. Lin reminded that the disease leads to a significant increase in the body's catabolic metabolism, in addition to weight loss, there can be fear of heat, sweating, rapid heartbeat, diarrhea, eye protrusion and other symptoms, if the above manifestations, be sure to promptly consult the doctor to rule out the presence of hyperthyroidism.
2. Diabetes
We all know that the most typical symptom of diabetes is three more and one less, that is, eat more, drink more, urinate more, and weight loss. Then why will the weight loss it:
1, diabetic patients insulin function is poor, the intake of sugar can not be transformed into the body's energy needs through the conversion of the main protein and fat to provide energy, so diabetic patients will appear to weight loss and other symptoms; 2, blood glucose elevation, the emergence of polyuria, a large number of glucose loss, but also the reason for the loss of weight; 3, diabetic patients need to strictly control the diet, but also easy to control the diet. Patients need strict dietary control, also prone to weight loss; 4, oral metformin or liraglutide and other side effects of hypoglycemic drugs.
Dr. Lin reminded that diabetes is now more and more a trend in the younger generation, if you usually like heavy, milk tea, weight of obese young people must be a regular physical examination, clinical often have more than 20 years of young people because of diabetic ketoacidosis, coma and hospital, which is usually not enough care about the body, do not understand their own physical condition.
3. Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis patients generally have a characteristic: limb muscle wasting, even through the skin can touch the bone, this is a complication of cirrhosis: Muscular Decrease Disorder. Why do patients with cirrhosis lose weight?
First, the liver is an important digestive organ, cirrhosis can cause weakened digestion, loss of appetite, nausea, bloating and other symptoms, reduced intake, and indigestion, which is one of the causes of wasting. Secondly, the liver is an important organ for synthesizing glycogen and plays a role as a blood sugar reserve. The ability of hepatocytes to synthesize, store and break down glycogen decreases, leading to an increase in ketone body production and amino acid consumption. Third, cirrhosis weakens blood ammonia metabolism, causing hyperammonemia, hyperammonemia elevates muscle growth inhibitory hormone and inhibits muscle growth.
Because in our country is mainly viral hepatitis caused by cirrhosis, so the prevention of this disease first injection of hepatitis B, hepatitis A vaccine to effectively eliminate viral infections, early detection and isolation of patients to give active treatment. And it is recommended that people over the age of 40 do a liver function and liver ultrasound once a year.
4. Consumption of tumor disease
The first reason that should be considered for sudden weight loss in the elderly is cancer. Malignant tumors are a kind of chronic consumptive disease, and the energy and nutrients required by tumor cells in the process of growth are far more than the normal tissues of the body. Moreover, as the tumor grows, this consumption will increase day by day. At the same time, the tumor is often combined with bleeding, fever and other symptoms, the toxic substances produced by the tumor, but also affect the patient's appetite, so that the body intake of nutrients is obviously insufficient, resulting in severe emaciation.
Why was the diagnosis of bowel cancer made after losing 15 pounds?
Above also said that cancer can cause wasting, but bowel cancer is not only wasting, there will be other symptoms in the early stage, such as long-term blood in stools, diarrhea and constipation alternately, thin stools, abdominal pain and so on, and after these symptoms if still do not pay attention to me, do not consult a doctor in a timely manner, then the tumor will continue to grow in a large amount of consumption of energy after the appearance of the tumor. The tumor will continue to grow and consume a lot of energy before it becomes thin. Because clinically a lot of elderly people left behind long-term blood in the stool and long-term constipation did not have timely examination led to the original early cancer development into the middle and late stage, very unfortunate.
Summary: no matter what kind of situation caused by thinning, the body will have other tips, such as diabetic patients starving for a long time will appear dizziness, panic and other symptoms of hypoglycemia; hyperthyroidism patients usually do not decline in food intake, accompanied by thick neck or panic, insomnia and so on; cirrhosis of the liver patients will be accompanied by weakness, diarrhea, and so on. Early bowel cancer patients will be accompanied by blood in the stool, constipation and other symptoms, we need to need timely medical early detection and early treatment!
Author's note: I am Dr. Lin, every day in layman's language for you to popularize professional medical knowledge, the code word is not easy, if you like my article, welcome to praise + attention to support me, your praise is my motivation. If you still have questions, you can leave a message in the comments section!Seriously weight a certain Ming Ming marvelous reduction is not a good sign, most of them are malignant diseases play ghosts, because working in the hospital, came to the cancer patients we routinely ask patients whether the recent thin, and many cancer patients answer is thin, and in general appear to be the body wasting patients, the disease is not considered to be the early stage, usually the middle and late stage will appear to be a significant drop in body weight.
Why does bowel cancer lead to weight loss? What are the symptoms of bowel cancer? Don't wait until you lose weight to go to the hospital to see a doctor1. Abdominal pain is a generalized symptom, but it lasts for a long time; it may also be combined with intermittent diarrhea or constipation. If the tumor has a long course, you can feel a lump in the abdomen, and the lump is generally less active, and there is pressure pain.
2. Changes in bowel habit and stool characteristics, which is also a symptom of many patients with bowel cancer, such as increased frequency of stools, thin stools, sticky stools or constipation, and blood in stools.
3. Chronic anemia symptom is also one of the common manifestations of bowel cancer patients, but it may not be the blood stool visible to the naked eye, but only the positive fecal occult blood test, but in the long run, there will also be the manifestation of anemia, that is, the skin is pale and the body is weak.