Sour stool

Introduction The accumulation of feces in the intestines is as long as the food will deteriorate in the high temperature environment and will deteriorate. Warm in the intestines, the stool will quickly "degenerate", so it smells bad.

Cause

The smell of stool is caused by the decomposition of bacteria, and the main components that produce odor are strontium, skatole, hydrocarbon, amine, acetic acid, butyric acid and the like. Among them, the odor of feces is sputum and skatole. The colon does not produce enzymes, only bacteria can digest. There are many kinds of bacteria in the colon, 70% of E. coli, 20% of anaerobic bacteria, and Streptococcus, Proteus, Staphylococcus, Lactobacillus, Spores and Yeast. There are very few protozoa and spirochetes.

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Related inspection

Conventional fecal odor fecal microscopy for fecal blood

You can check the intestinal tract, check the stool, check the blood routine, blood sedimentation, you can also find the Chinese medicine pulse diagnosis to adjust the diet to ensure sleep is very important, you can use acupuncture massage.

Differential diagnosis

1. Drainage-like bloody stool: Drainage-like bloody stool refers to gastrointestinal function damage caused by certain infectious factors, gastrointestinal mucosa is damaged or diarrhea and bloody stools caused by other causes, thus affecting the normal function of the human body. Play.

2, gray stool: normal stool should be yellow-brown, this is because the bile secreted by liver cells into the liver and intestine circulation, after a series of chemical changes, the yellow-green bilirubin in the bile turns yellow brown, and excreted with the stool . Obstruction of the biliary tract, obstruction of the passage of bile into the intestine leads to the absence of bile in the digestive tract, resulting in grayish clay-like stools.

3, dysentery-like stool: bacillary dysentery (bacillary dysentery), is a common acute intestinal infectious disease caused by dysentery bacilli, with colonic suppurative inflammation as the main lesion, systemic poisoning symptoms, abdominal pain, diarrhea, urgency, heavy, pus and blood And other clinical manifestations. Because of the different clinical manifestations and diseases, medical scientists divide dysentery into common dysentery, poisoning dysentery and chronic dysentery. Although there are many types of dysentery, only heavy and poisonous types are threatening to children's lives. Most of the children with poisoning dysentery have sudden onset, high fever, and the intestinal symptoms are often not obvious at the beginning of the disease. Some patients have dysentery-like stools after a day or so. Anal canal or 2% saline enema is helpful for early diagnosis before the discharge of typical dysentery. In the peak season of dysentery, the child suddenly had a high heat and was very weak, and his face was gray. 1. Drainage-like bloody stool: Drainage-like bloody stool refers to gastrointestinal function damage caused by certain infectious factors, gastrointestinal mucosa is damaged or diarrhea and bloody stools caused by other causes, thus affecting the normal function of the human body. Play.

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