What does the black stool mean?

Black, indicating something is wrong with your digestive tract. In particular, melena is present, which is likely to be caused by gastrointestinal bleeding.

Upper gastrointestinal bleeding, which is generally dark, dark, and mixed with stool, is medically known as tarry stool. Common bleeding sites in the upper gastrointestinal tract include: esophageal variceal bleeding, gastric and duodenal ulcer bleeding, esophageal cancer, cardia cancer, gastric cancer, carcinoma (glandulin) body destruction bleeding, biliary tract bleeding, etc.

How much blood is or how little. Blood in the stool is characterized by a dark color, because red blood cells are destroyed by digestive juices, such as gastric juice, duodenal juice, bile, pancreatic juice and other fluids, decomposed, and become non-blood cell organic substances. They are then mixed with the digested food and enter the small intestine and colon to be digested and absorbed.

Blood mixes with food scraps to form stool, which is excreted from the body, and such ambassadors become black.

Long-term blood in the stool leads to anemia and decreased human resistance, which must be detected as soon as possible**, carried out**!

Black stools occur when bleeding from the upper gastrointestinal tract, most commonly caused by peptic ulcers.

Gastrointestinal bleeding, go to the hospital quickly.

The normal color of the stool is: yellowish-brown. If the stool is very dark, there are several possibilities.

The first is related to food, Guangzhou people have an old saying: "eat pig red and black", that is to say, if you eat pig blood or animal offal, the stool will turn red and black, eat more green vegetables, have high chlorophyll content, and the stool is green. The second is related to drugs, patients with stomach problems take gastric medicines containing bismuth, and patients with iron deficiency anemia often supplement iron, and their stools will also be black.

Charcoal and some black Chinese patent medicines will also have black stools when eaten. This black stool is a matte charcoal-like black with varying shades.

Black: If you don't eat pig blood and don't take drugs that may have black stools, the stool appears black, which is generally upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Bleeding from the stomach and duodenum, blood passes through the intestines several meters long, undergoes various chemical changes, and gradually turns black, therefore, if the amount of bleeding in these places is not very large, the stool should be black.

Ulcer disease accounts for about half of patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding, and most of them are duodenal ulcer bleeding. In addition to ulcer disease, gastritis, cirrhosis of the liver with ruptured esophageal or gastric varices, and gastric cancer are also common causes of upper gastrointestinal bleeding.

There may be occult bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract. It's better to go to the hospital and check it out.

It could just be on fire or eating something black.

It is likely to be gastrointestinal bleeding, so please go to the hospital for examination in time.