hi this is a embarrising question about rectal bleeding. I am 21 weeks pregnant and have been bleeding from my anus most times i go to the toilet for a poo. the poos are hard and hurts abit (stings) today i noticed i had a clot in the blood. it only happenes sometimes when i go to the loo not always.
Hallow Dear, During pregnancy, due to the effect of raised progesterone hormone, the blood vessels along with other involuntary muscles get relaxed. The same changes take place in the rectal blood vessels also resulting into hemorrhoids (piles). Whenever these hemorrhoids are disturbed, some vessels break resulting in rectal bleeding through anus. It seems from your history that you have engorged inflamed hemorrhoids in the rectum. Moreover, you have hard stools. The stools could be hard because of slow movement off the residual food in the intestines due to relaxing effect of the progesterone on the intestinal muscles or could be due to amoebic infection. To overcome the problem of bleeding through anus, you have to take care of