Unshaped stools can be caused by stomach problems, intestinal problems, or problems with other organ pathologies.
Under normal circumstances, a person’s stools should be regular, well-formed, columnar or long, soft yellow stools. If the stool is not shaped for a long time, it may be caused by indigestion due to diseases of the stomach, such as gastric ulcer, superficial gastritis, and so on. The food cannot be fully digested in the stomach and empties into the duodenum.
Unshaped stools with increased stool frequency and even diarrhea symptoms may be caused by intestinal diseases, such as acute and chronic enteritis, ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease, intestinal tumors and so on. In addition to the symptoms of abnormal stools, patients may also experience abdominal pain, bloating, weight loss and other discomforts.
Long-term unshaped stool, in addition to consider the gastrointestinal problems, but also may be related to diseases of the pancreas, such as acute and chronic pancreatitis patients can may have steatorrhea.
Patients with long-term irregular bowel movements should pay close attention to this, and it is recommended that gastroscopy, colonoscopy, abdominal ultrasound, stool routine and other tests should be performed to identify the cause of the problem, and then the patient should be actively treated under the guidance of the doctor.