Sticky stool

Introduction The characteristics of the stool are closely related to the main components of the food. For example, the foods that are eaten are mainly high-protein such as meat and high-viscosity ingredients such as glutinous rice. The stools are more viscous and have a poor bowel movement. For foods with high plant fiber such as coarse grains and vegetables, stools are easy to form solids, and it is easy to cause more stools, more stools and faster bowel movements.

Cause

Chinese medicine believes that the stool is very viscous, the stomach is wet, because of the wet and sticky, if you accidentally eat warm and dry things, it will cause damp heat, but if you are not careful, it will cause cold and dampness.

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Related inspection

Fecal microscopy for stool traits

Feces are not sticky, can be accompanied by constipation, exhaust odor. 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

The diagnosis should be differentiated from the following symptoms:

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, because the bile secreted by liver cells enters 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, with systemic poisoning symptoms, abdominal pain, diarrhea, urgency, and pus 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.

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