Froth is more than foam in the stool, may be diet and other physiological factors, may also be gastrointestinal dysfunction, dyspepsia, inflammatory bowel disease and other pathologic factors.
1. Physiological factors: if the dietary fiber content in the diet is low, the consumption of greasy, barbecue and other meat foods, will slow down the gastrointestinal peristalsis, food for a long time in the intestinal tract, by the bacterial decomposition of the intestinal tract produced by the increase in the gas, there may be a foamy stools in the performance.
2. Gastrointestinal dysfunction: mostly due to poor dietary habits, the patient’s gastrointestinal tract digestion and absorption and peristalsis function is impaired, affecting the digestion and absorption of food, abdominal pain and bloating, diarrhea, constipation and other symptoms, which may also lead to foaming in the stool.
3. Indigestion: the patient’s digestive ability decreases, can not be timely into the gastrointestinal tract for digestion and absorption of food and emptying, resulting in postprandial fullness, bloating, diarrhea and other symptoms, may also lead to foam in the stool.
4. Inflammatory bowel disease: mostly due to immune abnormalities, genetics and other factors, the patient’s main manifestations of abdominal pain, diarrhea, mucus, pus and blood stools, abdominal distension, nausea, etc., there may also be foam in the stool performance.
Frothy stools may also be due to other reasons. If the patient long-term or repeated presence of foam in the stool, and accompanied by abdominal discomfort, it is recommended to consult a doctor in time to identify the cause of the disease, targeted treatment, so as not to delay the condition.