Foamy mucus-like stools are considered to be bacterial enteritis, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease and so on.
1. Bacterial enteritis: this is caused by bacterial infection of the intestinal tract inflammation, more common in the summer, the general onset of the disease is more acute, there will be fever, anxious and heavy (lower abdomen is uncomfortable, very want to relieve stools, after the bowel feeling of defecation), abdominal pain, diarrhea, stools are usually with blood or with mucus.
2. Ulcerative colitis: ulcerative colitis is a chronic non-specific intestinal inflammation, and a variety of factors related to the general involvement of the rectum and colon, abdominal pain, diarrhea, mucus, pus and blood stools and other symptoms, and some patients will also be accompanied by extra-intestinal manifestations, such as erythema nodosum, iritis, recurrent ulcers in the oral cavity and so on.
3. Crohn’s disease: the pathogenesis of Crohn’s disease is not particularly clear, this is a chronic non-specific inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, the disease from the oral cavity to the anus of the digestive tract may be involved in the various segments, the main symptom is abdominal pain diarrhea, weight loss, if the lesions involved in the colon, there will be a sense of urgency and mucus pus and blood stool.
Foamy mucus stool may also be other reasons, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time, to clarify the cause of standardized treatment.