What does a stool test check?

As a kind of examination in daily life, stool examination can effectively check abnormal conditions of one's metabolism and can make a good examination of one's physical health. However, during the process of stool examination, many people have never done stool examination and do not know what to check. For the sake of everyone's health, let us understand what stool examination is to check.

Stool examination mainly checks whether there is blood or not, and whether there are cells, parasites or their eggs. For the first item, do not take bismuth-containing medicines or large amounts of vitamin C tablets two weeks before the stool test. Do not eat food containing animal blood, such as pig blood, one or two days before the test, because these will cause false positives for occult blood in the stool.

Stool examinations mainly include routine stool tests and occult blood tests. It can help you understand whether the digestive tract and organs such as the liver, gallbladder, and pancreas have inflammation, bleeding, parasitic infection, and other diseases.

Suggestions: Generally, routine stool examination is mainly used to check for abnormalities in white blood cells and other parasite eggs, and occult blood can be used to check for bleeding in the digestive tract.

Normal stool should be yellow-brown formed stool, weighing about 100 to 300 grams, without pus, blood or mucus. When a disease occurs, the stool will change. Routine stool examination is to check for red blood cells, white blood cells and worm eggs in the stool. However, some pathogens are difficult to detect and require stool culture for a clear diagnosis.

1. Take fresh stool for examination using the specimen method. The amount should be about the size of a broad bean and the container should be a clean wax paper box or wide-mouth bottle.

2. Note: If there is pus, blood or mucus-like substance (mucus) in the stool, the pus, blood and mucus parts should be collected. If the stool is watery, the stool should be collected in a wide-mouth bottle. Three days before the stool examination, you should abstain from meat, blood, and large amounts of green vegetables to avoid false positive results during the examination. If the stool specimen is not fresh or is dry, the eggs or bacteria may die, affecting the correct diagnosis.

There are many kinds of daily physical health examinations, and Bian Jian is one of them. The above has given a detailed answer to what the electrophysiological examination checks. So it is still recommended that everyone go to the hospital for regular check-ups, about once every three months, so as to effectively prevent diseases.