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Bloody (adjective, not expletive) aptly exemplifies bowel movement bleeding. Bright red spots of blood drip into the toilet bowl or down the legs. Crimson red blood coats the stools. Toilet tissue may be stained by scarlet red blood. Heartbeats may skip in alarm. What gives?

There is no need to be unduly alarmed yet as the hemorrhaging (technical jargon for bleeding) may be the result of any one of 6 likely reasons. Troublesome to our daily routine but most of the 6 are minor in severity and treatable with the right approach. Nevertheless, complacency will be a mistake. Start monitoring. See a doctor without delay if bleeding accompanied by pain drags on for more than a week.

A proper diagnosis will identify the exact cause so that correct treatment can be administered to solve the problem. More gravely, bowel movement bleeding may be a symptom of some class of cancer.

Melena or Hematochezia

Rectal bleeding is referred to medically as melena (tarry or sticky black colored stools) or hematochezia (maroon colored or bright red blood). Termed as rectal because the bleeding exits the body via the rectum, the 6 causes are proctitis, anorectal fistulae, anal fissures, rectal prolapse, internal hemorrhoids and external hemorrhoids.

Proctitis

Proctitis is classified as an inflammatory bowel disease, a group of inflammatory conditions of the small intestine and the large intestine (colon). Inflammation by itself is a positive bodily reaction to heal injured tissue. Like a tap that must be turned off, inflammation sets off curing of damaged tissue but must abort thereafter or greater tissue harm may ensue. Ulcers or erosion of the mucous membrane lining can erupt leading to proctitis in the rectum.

Among other symptoms, bowel movement bleeding is a common encounter. Proctitis as the cause of rectal bleeding must be eliminated as it can lead to perforation of the rectum if left untreated.

Anorectal Fistulae

This is an atypical passageway or tunnel between two or more internal organs that are not normally interconnected. Often, it cuts all the way to the surface of nearby skin surface. An anorectal fistula is one that opens out at the anal surface. The expulsion of stools and urine via this fistula is a common occurrence.

Anorectal fistulae are the product of of inflammatory bowel diseases like ulcerative proctitis, ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. Quite apart from infection pus, bowel movement bleeding is also one of the symptoms.

Accurate diagnosis of fistulae is imperative as it can be due to peritonitis (abdominal lining inflammation) which can be life-threatening. After the path of the fistula is traced, surgery with antibiotic therapy typically follows.

Anal Fissures

By definition, a fissure is a tear. Anal fissures are the result when undue physical straining during constipation causes tears around the anus. Bowel motion, whilst a normal part of life, requires a complex interaction of the internal and external sphincter muscles that control the movements of the anal opening. Spasms of the internal sphincter muscles may result from pain caused by the fissures, further aggravating the fissure. A vicious cycle occurs resulting in increased pain and bowel movement bleeding.

A change in diet to reduce constipation coupled with medication (lidocaine or hydrocortisone) may relieve the pain, inflammation and the harmful spasms.

Rectal Prolapse

The earliest recorded rectal prolapse was in ancient 1500 B.C.! Afflicting in the main elderly females, this condition is identifiable by the rectum hanging visibly out of the anus. Ligaments and muscles, including the internal and external muscles, fail to hold the rectum in place.

Among others, likely associated conditions include chronic constipation and constant diarrhea, long drawn straining during bowel motion and pelvic floor descent involving the uterus and bladder. Frequently, the only solution is surgery.

Hemorrhoids – External & Internal

In spite of the above austere narration, it may be ironic relief that the most prevalent reason for bowel movement bleeding is hemorrhoids, both external and internal. These are dealt with extensively at our site The Treatment Of Hemorrhoid.

Feel free to explore the various options available to deal effectively with them. In particular, have a look at the H Miracle, an alternative solution presented by an ex-sufferer that promises natural solutions that not only work but have lasting effect.

Further Reading

If you are interested in finding more about this topic, we have a related post on Blood In Stool – 7 Possible Causes In The Colon at our site. Do check this out.

Have you ever heard the old adage that “if it tastes great and you love to eat it, it must not be good for you?” Sometimes it seems that way, especially if you get stomach pain every time you eat the foods you love. Do you get indigestion, acid reflux, diarrhea, constipation or any of a number of other stomach disorders when you eat certain foods? Have you ever noticed whether or not you’re eating certain mixtures of foods when that happens? If so, you’ve stumbled upon the secret to ending stomach pain and misery. You just didn’t know that you’d found that secret.

You see stomach pain and really, many of the common but painful ailments that we have given names to such as diverticulitis, diverticulosis, colitis, irritable bowel syndrome and others didn’t just occur out of the blue. They began a long time before they actually surfaced to show themselves. It has been discovered that the foods that we love to eat don’t always love our bodies.

In most people who have “normal” digestive systems, incompatible foods, though not originally evident, cause the digestive system to break down and become diseased. If a person has an abnormal digestive system, one that may be slower or even faster than what would be termed a “normal” digestive system, the results become obvious much sooner than in the “normal” system.

Here’s how it works, in a nutshell. Foods are either acid based or alkaline based. The body’s normal pH, which is a measurement of acidity/alkalinity, is 7.35 to 7.45. The lower the number, the more acidic it is. When a person eats a certain food, let’s say an orange for instance, that food is swallowed and finds its way to the stomach. Oranges are acid based foods with a pH of about 3.69 to 4.34. That is VERY acidic. Most people think that if they eat acidic foods, their body will become more acidic. Au contraire, my fine feathered friend.

The truth is that when the stomach receives food that is acidic, it doesn’t just pass that food through without adjusting it. The stomach knows what the normal pH of the body is and it’s job is to make the foods that are coming through it as close to normal as possible before they go to the intestines where they are absorbed and distributed. While the stomach is breaking the foods down, it detects the pH of the eaten foods and adds just enough acid or alkaline to the mixture to balance the pH of the food.

So, once you’ve eaten this very acidic orange, the stomach determines that the pH of the orange is too low to be allowed to enter the digestive system. It then adds just enough alkaline substances to bring the pH of the orange back up to somewhere around 7.35 to 7.45. Once this is accomplished, the orange is allowed to leave the stomach and enter the absorption portion of the digestive process.

Sounds simple, right? What an easy job the stomach has, right?

Yea, that’s right, as long as the stomach only has to deal with one food and one pH. But what happens when you eat several different types of food with various pHs? Yea, the stomach’s job gets a LOT more complicated, huh?

So, what’s the point I’m trying to make? Just this. How do you think the stomach feels when you eat a meal that is very difficult to break down normally, like say, beef, for which it (the stomach) usually releases a fair amount of acids so that they can break down the beef and be absorbed at the proper pH and on top of that, you eat a whole potato, which has a higher but still acidic Ph of around 5.10. Add to that some cooked asparagus at a pH of 6.0 to 6.7 , some iced tea (pH 7.2) and some a dessert of fruit cocktail (3.4 to 6.0). Yow! First, it releases acids and then, to neutralize those acids, it has to release alkalines, then back to acids! The job’s not so easy anymore is it? No.

The sad part is that when this happens, the digestive process is slowed down right there in the stomach and many times those foods don’t digest for lengthy periods of time. Rather, they just sit in the stomach and start to become putrid. That means that the natural bacterias within those foods start to break them down. In other words, they’re just rotting. When natural material start to rot, they release gasses and toxins.

When the foods do eventually make it to the small intestines, they take those gasses and toxins with them and the toxins are absorbed into the system. The gasses cause bloating and abdominal distension and often pain. As the toxins are absorbed into the system, they become part of the structure of the body and in doing so, they begin to cause destruction of body tissue.

This is when the conditions and diseases that you hear about, that cause digestive problems, take place. This is when diverticulitis, colitis, ibs and the other diseases that I mentioned previously start to manifest themselves.

Don’t get too depressed about this though. There is a simple way to beat this whole system. Just learn how to mix the appropriate foods properly. That’s it.

Once a person understands how to combine certain foods, they can completely end stomach pain, bowel pressures, digestive problems and a number of other digestive disorders that complicate their lives and make them miserable.

This method is not something new. It has been around for centuries but people are often very stubborn and insist on eating food in certain combinations, to their detriment. Food is great, but it can cause you extreme torment if eaten in the wrong combinations.

Once people discover how to eat the proper combinations it is very common that the symptoms of the diseases disappear and they can lead normal lives without burning stomach pain, indigestion, diarrhea, constipation or irritable bowel syndrome. It’s the food mixtures that cause the problem. Not the food itself.

If they go back to eating the wrong combinations, the symptoms return. So what does that tell you?

This food combining system is not a miracle nor is it a secret. It is just a learning process that very few people know and understand.

If you or someone you care about is having any type of digestive or digestive system problems, the answer to their health may be a simple adjustment in the foods that they’re eating. It may behoove them to learn how to combine foods correctly and end their stomach pain forever.

Just yesterday I received a letter from a woman in Canada,
who has suffered more physical pain than 99.999999% of
anyone who has ever lived or who ever will live.

She’s had hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of
unnecessary (and irreversible) surgeries and other
procedures.

And since Canada has national health care, you couldn’t
possibly say the motive is profit. Because the doctors and
hospitals make nothing from these procedures. Because the
patient pays nothing.

So the truth is, obviously, that the doctors TRULY don’t
know how to naturally treat digestive disorders (like
diverticulitis, colitis, IBS, acid reflux and others) with
anything but drugs and surgery. Could that be? Could it
really be that it’s not just greed that drives these
unneeded procedures?

Read her story below, and you’ll conclude, like I do, that
it’s not greed that is keeping so many people sick. It’s
simply ignorance, not profits that keeps people from
getting advice that will make them well.

Here’s Vera and Stephen Soroka’s story.

Be amazed…

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Dear Sherry,

Thank you so much for supplying the information that
allowed me to bring my life back to normal.

I started having excessive bleeding from my large
intestine when I was 16. Farm-raised and supposedly fed
garden fresh vegetables and free range protein, I like the
majority of Canadians and Americans thought I was eating
correctly…especially on those days when Mom would make
homemade bread and we would smother it in Rogers syrup.
Yum!

The bleeding was only occasional but scary for a teenager
and so much blood loss. This continued throughout my 20′s
with many scopes being done and always being told by the
medical profession that there was something wrong with my
ovaries!

They actually told me I would only have a 50% chance of
ever becoming pregnant. Ironically, I later found out that
I was about 3 weeks pregnant when they told me that!

By three weeks into my pregnancy I could barely stand the
pain of the elastic on my underwear and belts of any kind
disapeared from my closet for life. I had constant pain in
my tummy with a totally normal pregnancy.

After the birth of our second child and continuing bouts
of bleeding, fainting from the pain, and basically wearing
“sacks” for clothing, the medical ‘experts’ decided at age
38 to give me a hysterectomy because of course, the pain
had to be in my reproductive system.

You already know the results right? The pain and
occasional bleeding flushes continued.

One morning at age 47 I went to the bathroom and instantly
lost over 2/3 of my total blood in one fell swoop! You bet
I hit the floor, scared the <$@#*& out of my husband who
rushed me to hospital where they took out 2/3 of my large
intestine and told me I was lucky I wasn't on the street
somewhere or I would never have made it. They said I had
the intestine of an 80 year old it was so full of
diverticulitis.

The ONLY thing the surgeon recommended to me was to take
Metamucil to give me some form for the constant diarrhea.
So for the last 11 years that's what I was doing until one
day I just typed in diverticulitus and there was your site.
That was 3 months ago.

I used to be so excited when I would have what I called a
close to normal bowel movement and the only thing I had
figured out was it usually happened after a simple pasta
meal. Now of course I know why...because it was correctly
combined.

All told I have had approximately 10 surgeries (including
day scopes) and now I am so excited to say I have a normal
bowel movement once or twice a day, have lost 9 pounds and
feel great every day.

My husband, also farm-raised, had over 1/2 of his stomach
removed from ulcers when he was 21! He has a term for
eating from your program...he calls it feeling "neutral"
which is a great term because there is no burping, no gas,
no smell, no tummy ache, no saying as you find the nearest
sofa, "Gosh, I wish I wouldn't have eaten that!"

So like your other 200,000 followers we also thank you SO
much for turning our lives around in such a simple way.
There are no cumbersome rules, I can still enjoy sneaking
in a cool beer on a hot day but we now combine our foods
simply and effectively and keep aware of the spacing time.

Thank you most sincerely,

Vera and Stephen Soroka

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SB: Vera, I'm so happy you found Great Taste No Pain.
May you and your husband enjoy a long happy life of feeling
“neutral!”

Most people would think that, living on a farm eating the
freshest of foods, nothing could go wrong with your
digestive system. But Vera suffered for years. And was
never told what to do to change her situation.

I’m telling YOU what to do. It’s not just “eat
vegetables” or “eat fresh.” It’s more than that. To have
perfect digestion, you need to follow some simple, but very
important rules. Do what I show you in Great Taste No Pain
and you will feel great. Period.