Dark stool

Introduction Healthy people's stools are yellow or brown, in a cylindrical shape, yellow when eating more carbohydrates, brown when eating more protein. Certain diseases or individual drugs and foods can affect the color change of the stool, so that the lesions of the organs can also be observed from the color of the stool.

Cause

It is more common in hemolytic jaundice, which is the yellow biliary produced by the massive destruction of red blood cells. Often accompanied by hemolytic anemia, can be caused by congenital defects of red blood cells, hemolytic bacterial infection, malignant dysentery, blood transfusion of mismatched blood type, poisoning of certain chemicals or toxins, various immune reactions (including autoimmune).

an examination

Related inspection

Ultrasound examination of routine gastrointestinal CT examination of blood gastrointestinal diseases

Blood routine examination: generally use peripheral blood examination, such as fingertips, blood at the ear lobe. After passing the blood cell analysis instrument, the computer reported the result that this item has become a routine for examining patients, so it is called blood routine. Blood routine examination, serum total bilirubin was 17.1 ~ 34.2 mol / L.

Differential diagnosis

1. The stool is grayish white, and the child's white eyes and skin are yellow, which may be biliary obstruction or biliary viscous or hepatitis.

2, stool black, may be caused by bleeding in the upper part of the stomach or intestines or taking iron drugs to prevent anemia.

3, the stool with bright red blood, may be dry stool, or the skin around the anus is broken.

4, the stool is a small bean soup, may be hemorrhagic enteritis, this situation occurs mostly in premature infants.

5, it will be light yellow, paste-like, oily appearance, containing more milk petals and fat droplets, floating on the water surface, the amount of stool and the number of bowel movements are more, may be fat indigestion.

6, stool yellowish brown watery sample, with milk flaps, pungent smell of rotten eggs, protein indigestion.

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