What’s with the white stool that looks like snot?

Stool with white color like snot is mostly considered as mucus, and its cause may be related to enteritis, bacillary dysentery or ulcerative colitis and other diseases. 1. Enteritis: can be caused by bacteria, viruses or parasites and other pathogens, such as fecal-oral route of infection with rotavirus, can cause abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms, due to the intestinal mucosa secretion of mucus, pus, and leukocytes and necrosis of tissues, so the formation of white mucus stools or mucus pus and blood stools. 2. Bacterial dysentery: food and water contaminated by dysentery bacillus, through direct or indirect oral transmission to healthy people caused by the onset of bacteria in the colon reproduction, invasion of the intestinal mucosa, due to inflammatory stimuli can lead to acute and severe as well as increased frequency of defecation, mucus pus and blood stools can be seen, and sometimes can be discharged flakes of pseudomembrane, so that stools with white. 3. Ulcerative colitis: it can be related to autoimmune, genetic and environmental factors, there will be recurrent abdominal pain, diarrhea, and mucus, pus and blood stools, stools can be seen white or bloody mucus. When you find frequent white mucus or other physical symptoms, it is recommended that you consult a doctor in a timely manner, complete the routine stool and other related examinations, and follow the doctor’s instructions for treatment.