Foamy stool with mucus is mostly caused by gastrointestinal diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease, intestinal infectious lesions, gastrointestinal dysfunction.
1. Inflammatory bowel disease: including ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, is due to an abnormal immune response caused by a non-specific chronic intestinal inflammatory lesions, the patient may have obvious diarrhea, stool foamy, and mixed with mucus, pus and blood.
2. Infectious intestinal lesions: such as acute gastroenteritis, bacillary dysentery, etc., mostly due to diet or drinking water due to pathogen infection of the gastrointestinal tract, so that the patient has diarrhea, the stool is foamy, pathogens stimulate the gastrointestinal mucosa, resulting in increased secretion, but also to make mucus, blood and other abnormal substances appear in the stool.
3. Gastrointestinal dysfunction: the patient’s digestion and absorption and gastrointestinal peristalsis dysfunction may also cause the patient to have foamy stools with mucus.
In addition, gastrointestinal tumors, gastrointestinal polyps and other diseases can also lead to foamy stool with mucus. When the patient has a foamy stool with mucus, it is recommended to consult a doctor in time to identify the cause of the disease and carry out targeted treatment.