What is the reason for dark brown stool

Bowel movements can reflect a person's physical health. Normal bowel movements are once a day, and each time should not be too long. Sometimes the stool may be dark brown and dry. This is a type of stool retention. There is a problem with the digestive tract and it cannot function normally. It is also related to the blood. It requires taking some medicine for treatment and paying attention to your lifestyle. Let me introduce it to you below.

1. Digestive tract diseases

Most patients with digestive tract diseases have abnormal stool color, the most common of which is black color. Therefore, if you find that your stool is black for a long time, you should go to Yiyuanju as soon as possible to check whether your digestive tract is diseased. There are many common digestive tract diseases, such as esophageal varices, esophageal foreign bodies, ulcer disease, acute gastritis, gastric mucosal prolapse, intussusception, hemorrhagic necrotizing enteritis, etc.

Patients with digestive tract diseases should not only pay attention to early examination and treatment in their daily lives, but also pay attention to developing good living habits and eating habits in their daily lives to avoid worsening of the disease and serious harm to human health.

2. Blood disorders

Some common blood diseases can also cause black stools, so patients should pay special attention to this in their daily lives, and it is best to pay as much attention as possible to this factor. Common blood diseases include neonatal hemorrhage, hemophilia, leukemia, aplastic anemia, thrombocytopenia, etc. In addition, there are also diseases like Henoch-Schönlein purpura, which will change the normal color of stool. Therefore, special attention should be paid to this aspect, which cannot be ignored.

In addition to the above blood diseases, there are also diseases such as sepsis, typhoid fever, or the newborn swallowing of blood from the mother's birth canal or ruptured nipples, swallowing of bleeding from the nose, pharynx, and gums, etc., which may cause black stools.

3. Drug effects

Taking certain medications may cause changes in stool color. In addition to medications, there are many foods in life that can also easily cause black stools. For example, if you eat a lot of watermelon and tomatoes in the summer, your stool will turn red, while the stool of children with anemia may turn black after taking iron supplements. In addition, black stools may also occur when eating animal blood, liver, and more meat.

As for medication, if you are taking iron supplements, carbon supplements and other medications during this period, it is also easy to cause black stool color.

From the above introduction, we know what causes black stools. It is related to disease and may also be related to some medications taken. It is recommended that everyone should pay attention when the symptoms of black stools appear and find out the reasons. If it is caused by disease, you should go to the hospital for examination in time and receive effective treatment.