When the symptom of yellow stools followed by black stools occurs, dietary factors should be considered first. If the stool routine as well as the occult blood test is abnormal, treatment such as hemostasis, acid suppression, protection of gastric mucosa, etc., and surgery is needed if necessary, should be taken.
The color of stool has a certain relationship with daily dietary habits, if you eat duck blood, pig’s blood and other animal blood products, you may have black stool. If it is a food problem that causes the stool to be yellow and then black, it is usually not a big problem, so you can pause eating the food in question and observe whether there is any change in the color of the stool.
If it is caused by disease, then black stools often indicate gastrointestinal bleeding, especially upper gastrointestinal bleeding is more likely. At this time, it is usually combined with discomfort in the stomach area, stomach pain, bloating, acid reflux, nausea, etc., and even obvious dizziness, fatigue, panic and other symptoms. Their fecal occult blood is often positive.
At this time, it is necessary to seek timely medical treatment to clarify the causes of gastrointestinal bleeding, and apply acid-suppressing drugs such as omeprazole and other drugs to protect the gastric mucosa, such as aluminum thioglycollate gel, under the guidance of the doctor. It may be necessary to use growth inhibitors, thrombin lyophilized powder and other hemostatic treatment, endoscopic ligation hemostasis and other treatments.
Therefore, the stool is yellow and then black, need to exclude dietary factors caused by, if it is digestive bleeding and other factors caused by black stool, need to follow the doctor’s instructions for treatment.