1, from the stool color: under normal circumstances, human feces are yellowish brown, generally cylindrical, and light brown and golden yellow stools of infants and young children are also normal. If there is black stool or black bloody stool with mucus, it is probably caused by upper gastrointestinal bleeding, that is to say, duodenal ulcer, gastritis and even intestinal cancer have appeared in the stomach and duodenum.
2. From the frequency of defecation, it is normal to defecate once a day or once every two to three days, and it is normal for people with different constitutions to defecate once every four or five days. However, if you don't defecate for four or five days, symptoms such as difficulty in defecation and dry stool may be caused by constipation. There are many reasons for constipation. In addition to intestinal diseases, anal diseases such as hemorrhoids and anal fissure can also cause constipation.
3. From the smell of stool: people who love meat will have a heavier smell of stool, while vegetarians have a lighter smell of stool. People with chronic enteritis, especially those with rectal cancer, will have a bad smell in their stools.
Judging health from the shape of stool
1, banana-shaped: If you excrete this feces every day, it means that your intestines are healthy.
2, block: This shows that the water content in the stool is very small, and defecation is difficult. Frequent defecation generally indicates intestinal diseases, such as various inflammations and sometimes even cancer.
3, muddy: This means that the intestine has been filled with feces, and the intestinal movement has been greatly hindered, which may lead to long-term malnutrition and lead to many diseases.
4, watery stool: This kind of stool is a very dangerous signal, it is usually a sign of some malignant diseases, intestinal movement is almost stagnant, food and water are excreted intact.
5, hard state: indicating that the body is short of water, intestinal movement is not very comfortable, such stool can easily become the root cause of various diseases.
6, half chain: there is more water in the stool, indicating that the intestine can not fully absorb water and can not absorb nutrition well.
Abnormal stool color
1, the stool is bright red and mushy. May suffer from acute hemorrhagic necrotizing enteritis, which is due to overeating or eating unclean food.
2. Bright red blood drops adhere to the surface of stool and do not mix with stool. Common in internal hemorrhoids, external hemorrhoids, anal fissure. If there is blood attached to the stool surface and the stool becomes flat, you should go to the hospital to check whether you have rectal cancer, sigmoid colon cancer, rectal ulcer and other diseases.
3, dark red stool, if sauce, more mucus, often suffering from amoebic dysentery. Amebic stool is a parasite. There is mucus and blood in the stool of patients with bacterial dysentery, but it is not as bad as that of patients with amebic dysentery.
4, the stool is tar-like, black and bright, often bleeding from esophageal, gastric and duodenal ulcers. Blood is red. When it enters the digestive tract, the iron of hemoglobin in the blood combines with the sulfide in the fat to produce iron sulfide, which leads to melena (black stool can only be seen when the blood volume reaches 60 ml or more). In addition, black tarry stool can also be seen when bleeding from esophageal venous tumor, persistent vomiting after overeating or bleeding from vascular rupture at the junction of esophagus and gastric mucosa.
5, the stool is gray like clay, indicating that the passage of bile into the intestine has been blocked, and bile has to be deposited on the skin through blood circulation, making the skin yellow. Cholelithiasis, cholangiocarcinoma, pancreatic head cancer, liver cancer, etc. Are "obstacles" for bile to flow into the digestive tract. There is no bile in the digestive tract, and the stool is gray and clay-like.
6, red and white stools like snot, commonly known as red and white frozen, is a feature of acute bacterial diseases. It is a viscous mixture of blood and mucus. Patients with chronic colitis will also have red and white jelly.
7. The stool is white oily foam, which is often a syndrome of indigestion and malabsorption. Children have this kind of situation, called children's celiac disease.
8, the stool is thin and red, which may be bleeding from the large intestine mucosa. If mixed with mucus and concentrated solution, check whether there is inflammation in the mucosa of large intestine.
9. The stool is green, watery or mushy, with sour smell and foam, which is more common in diseases such as indigestion and intestinal dysfunction. If the green stool is mixed with pus, it is the manifestation of acute enteritis or bacillary dysentery. After major abdominal surgery or receiving a large number of antibiotics, if there is a sudden green watery stool with fishy smell, it may be Staphylococcus aureus enteritis.
Factors of abnormal stool
1, abuse of antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs. When people have a cold, cough or diarrhea, they often use antibiotics or anti-inflammatory drugs. These drugs not only kill bacteria, but also kill probiotics in the intestine, which makes the intestinal flora unbalanced (the proportion of probiotics is getting less and less) and affects the intestinal function.
2, improper bowel washing and defecation, hurting the intestines and destroying the intestines. Clinically, laxative products containing rhubarb, cassia seed, senna leaf, aloe and other ingredients can cause electrolyte disorder, hypokalemia, vitamin deficiency, intestinal inflammation, and even induce precancerous lesions such as melanosis coli and neurogenic pseudoobstruction in severe cases.
3, improper weight loss, intestinal injury. In order to lose weight, many women often drink all kinds of evergreen slimming tea. However, due to the "unhealthy" mechanism of the product (for example, many slimming teas contain laxatives, which strongly stimulate intestinal peristalsis to achieve the purpose of "clearing the intestines and detoxifying"), long-term use will lead to weakened intestinal peristalsis and abnormal defecation function, so that once stopped, it will be impossible to defecate, forming a vicious circle.
4. Food pollution. All kinds of pollution in food production (such as water pollution, toxic soil and drug abuse in aquaculture) and production (such as cooking with waste oil) directly endanger intestinal health.
5. Bad eating habits. Overeating, irregular diet, high fat and high fever, fried barbecue, unclean diet, frequent entertainment and drinking will increase the burden on the intestine and directly endanger the health of the intestine.
6. Personal hygiene and environmental sanitation. There are all kinds of pathogenic bacteria and viruses in the environment. Because of not paying attention to diet and personal hygiene, it is easy to enter the intestine and affect the health of the intestine and people.
7. Work stress and psychological adjustment. Excessive work or study pressure, emotional tension, anxiety, depression, irritability, easily lead to autonomic dysfunction, leading to slow gastrointestinal peristalsis, decreased secretion of digestive juice, loss of appetite and other indigestion symptoms.
8. Bad living habits. Frequent overtime, staying up late and irregular work and rest can easily lead to intestinal dysfunction and imbalance of intestinal microecological environment, which in turn leads to intestinal aging and diseases.
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