Black loose stools may be associated with diet, medications, GI bleeding and infectious bowel disease. It needs to be treated by adjusting diet, using hemostatic drugs and fighting infection.
1. Diet and medications: such as eating animal offal, animal blood and other foods, taking bismuth such as colloidal bismuth or iron such as ferrous sulfate and other drugs, may cause black stools, stop eating the above foods and drugs stools will become normal color.
2. Gastrointestinal bleeding: If the upper gastrointestinal bleeding caused by peptic ulcer or liver cirrhosis can appear black stools, the amount of bleeding is small, you can choose the proton pump inhibitors such as omeprazole and growth inhibitors and other treatments, the amount of bleeding needs to be actively endoscopic hemostasis.
3. Infectious gastrointestinal diseases: such as bacterial enteritis, black loose stools can occur, this time can be used empirically third-generation cephalosporins such as ceftriaxone, cefazoxime, and retained stool culture to clarify the causative organisms to choose sensitive antibiotics for treatment.
The reason for the black diluted stools is clear in order to have targeted therapeutic measures, it is recommended to actively seek medical advice, standardized treatment under the guidance of the physician.