Aloe given internally seems to act chiefly on the rectum and, spincter ani, producing tenesmusand piles.
Wait a reasonable time, say an hour, after stool, so that the gut may be more passive; have the patient in the recumbent posture; direct him to resist tenesmus and to exert both the will and the muscular power to retain the aliment.
The lower its situation the greater is the frequency of the stools and the more liable are they to be accompanied by tenesmus and to contain blood and pus.
The presence of these abnormal growths teases the rectum and brings on tenesmus and frequent desire to go to stool; the feces are flattened, and with them escapes a quantity of glairy red mucus which has been compared to thin currant-jelly.
The tenesmus (cupiditas egerendi) is a more distressing, and certainly more distinctive, sign of dysentery.
Probably the use of small, smooth fragments of ice in the rectum would allay the tenesmus and help to subdue the inflammation.
If tenesmus proves an insurmountable barrier to ordinary means, an opium suppository is to be introduced three hours prior to another attempt.
During the 8th and 9th severe tenesmus set in with diarrh[oe]a, and blood was observed in the faeces.
The anus was very prominent, the bowels extremely irritable, and tenesmus was present.
It should not be given when rectal tenesmus exists.
The tenesmus of dysentery is a sympathetic action of the same nature; the rectum is highly irritated by the acrid nature of its contents, and excites an irresistible disposition to bear down.
If the disposition to tenesmus be troublesome, a small injection of starch and opium will afford relief.
This may arise from unhealthy irritating contents of the bowels producing spasmodic, griping, and colicky pains, or from diarrhoea with tenesmusarising from exposure to cold, or from irritation caused by the pressure of the gravid womb.
Purging not always present, but tenesmus and strangury.
During this slumber, fever, pain and tenesmus disappear, and the patient wakes with a feeling of health.
Towards the end of the ninth month the womb again descends into the pelvis and with this there may be a return of the irritation of the bladder and a feeling of bearing down or tenesmus of the rectum.
Tenesmus is a characteristic symptom of dysentery.
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