Black stools are also black in color when wiped out. Black stool is mainly due to food, drugs, gastrointestinal bleeding and other factors.
1. Food: animal offal, blood products, vegetables, black fungus and other foods, pigments, iron oxidation products, etc. will be excreted with the stool, making the stool black.
2. Drugs: Taking drugs such as ferrous succinate and bismuth potassium citrate also tends to cause the color of stool to be black.
3. Gastrointestinal bleeding: Gastrointestinal bleeding is often caused by peptic ulcer, varicose vein rupture and other factors, the blood enters into the intestine after oxidation in the intestines, and the black color of the stool will appear when it is discharged outside the anus.
There are many reasons that lead to black stools, if there are black stools, it is recommended that the patient should go to the gastroenterology department to improve the examination, to further clarify the diagnosis, according to the specific cause of the cause of the disease to give the right cause, symptomatic treatment.