Final answer:
Intussusception is a serious condition where a segment of the intestine telescopes into an adjoining intestinal segment, often causing bloody diarrhea, abdominal pain, and potentially projectile vomiting due to bowel obstruction and inflammation.
Step-by-step explanation:
The manifestations of intussusception, a specific gastrointestinal structural and inflammatory disorder, can be varied but commonly include bloody diarrhea, which is a mixture of blood and stool, abdominal pain, and often a palpable sausage-shaped mass in the abdomen. Intussusception is a medical emergency where a part of the intestine slides into an adjacent part of the intestine, like the pieces of a telescope, which can lead to obstruction and blood supply compromise to the affected areas.
Bloody diarrhea is commonly associated with intussusception due to the ischemia and inflammation of the bowel wall that may also lead to the leakage of blood and mucus into the intestine, eventually being passed as stool. Other clinical signs may include vomiting, which in some cases can be forceful (projectile vomiting), lethargy, and a failure to pass normal stool (constipation). Unlike frequent urination, which is more typically associated with urinary tract issues, the symptoms of intussusception are focused on the GI tract.