Stool red blood cells

Fecal red blood cell examination is a routine item of stool, which can understand digestive and absorption functions and help diagnose digestive system diseases. There are no red blood cells in normal stool. Inflammation or bleeding in the lower bowel can occur if dysentery, ulcerative colitis, colon cancer, rectal polyps, acute fluke disease, etc. The fresh red blood cells in the feces are grassy yellow and slightly refractive disk-shaped. Bacterial dysentery has fewer red blood cells, more scattered and normal morphology; amoebic dysentery has more red blood cells than white blood cells, and they are piled up and fragmented.

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