What to do if you have black stools with nausea

Black stool with nausea may be caused by dietary, medication or pathologic factors, and can be relieved by dietary adjustment, medication regimen adjustment, drug treatment and endoscopic treatment.
1. Dietary factors: some people, after over-consumption of black rice, black beans and other melanin-rich substances, are unable to effectively absorb and utilize such substances, which will lead to black stools with nausea, at this time there is no need for special treatment, adjusting the dietary structure, and maintaining a light diet can be relieved.
2. Pharmacological factors: some patients are taking ferrous succinate and other iron supplements, due to the iron can not be effectively absorbed and utilized in the intestinal tract, oxidized by intestinal bacteria into iron sulfide, black iron sulfide with the feces out of the body, so there are black stools, in addition to the side effects of the drug may lead to nausea, at this time, you can temporarily stop the drug or adjust the medication regimen.
3. Pathological causes: patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding, black stool, accompanied by nausea and vomiting and other digestive symptoms, this time you can follow the doctor’s instructions to use omeprazole, octreotide and other drugs, if necessary, endoscopic treatment.
Black stools with nausea, should be promptly to the hospital to avoid delaying the condition.