Sometimes thick and sometimes thin stools may be normal, such as dietary habits, but it may also be caused by gastrointestinal dysfunction, irritable bowel syndrome and other reasons, which is an abnormal phenomenon.
1. Dietary habits: sometimes eat vegetables or coarse fiber food is too little will lead to coarse stool and difficult to discharge, intake of food is too fine, intestinal indigestion will also make the stool become thick, if eating the food to help laxative, resulting in large stool water, which becomes fine and easy to discharge, it is recommended that usually do not pick picky about food, nutrition should be balanced, eat more vegetables and fruits, can improve this symptom.
2. Gastrointestinal dysfunction: the general shape of the stool is mainly formed in the large intestine, because the large intestine will reabsorb part of the water in the stool, and the stool is ultimately stored in the rectum, determining the shape of the discharged stool, if the gastric dysfunction, the decline in the function of the large intestine to reabsorb the water, will affect the shape of the stool, usually drink plenty of warm boiled water, which can help to promote intestinal peristalsis, improve the symptoms.
3. Irritable bowel syndrome: mainly due to diet and other factors caused by the results of the abnormal interaction of the intestinal brain, the main clinical symptoms of abdominal pain, abdominal distension, change in fecal characteristics, etc., may appear in the stool sometimes fine and sometimes coarse, the patient can use medication to relieve the symptoms, such as loperamide tablets, cotrimoxazole, and so on.
The above medications should be used under the guidance of a doctor. If the symptoms are not relieved, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time for examination and treatment.