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RECTOCELE

Categories: Diseases of Women

The muscle that holds up the lower end of the rectum is
relaxed or torn and this deprives the lower end of the rectum of its

support so that during expulsion of the feces forward distention of the

anterior wall of the rectum into the vagina results. The posterior wall of

the vagina is carried before the advancing anterior rectal wall, and

appears at the entrance of the vagina as a bulging tumor which is

increased in size with
every effort of the rectum to cast out the feces.



Causes. Hard child-birth (labor) and the long time the head of the child

was resting on the perineum. This resulted in an overstretching or tear of

the muscle that holds up the lower end of the bowel and the parts were

necessarily weakened.



Symptoms. It is hard to entirely empty the rectum because of the presence

of the tumor. This is soft, rounded, increasing and decreasing in size and

disappears upon pressure.



Treatment. Keep, if possible, the tumor from getting larger, regulate the

bowels.



An operation may be necessary to restore the parts to their normal

condition. A physician must be consulted.



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