A 35-year-old member asked:
What causes a clear fluid to discharge from rectum when having a bowel movement?
1 doctor answer • 2 doctors weighed in
Dr. Yash Khannaanswered
Family Medicine 59 years experience
Mucus: Clear fluid usually is mucus and if you have it all the time it needs to be investigated by your doctor as it may be infectious colitis or inflammatory bowel disease like ulcerative colitis or crohns disease.You need evaluation and may be colonoscopy by a gasteroenterologist.
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