Stool with mucus and other stool deviations. Causes. Treatment

To determine if you have a normal chair, it is important to know its color. If it is brown in different shades or closer to black, then the stool is normal. Otherwise, you will immediately see unusual changes that may be the reason for the survey. If feces with mucus, you need to consult a doctor to clarify the cause of the appearance of mucus.

What color is the norm

In an adult, feces are usually brown. In children who drink milk or breastfeeding, the feces are usually light yellow or yellowish brown with a characteristic unpleasant odor.

The fact that infants can mistakenly take for feces with mucus (blotches, whitish clots, flakes), most likely they are not. Any white inclusions in feces in infants can only be remnants of undigested food.

A chair with gray or white shades. Causes

If your stool is light or whitish, you may have liver, pancreas or bile duct disease. Therefore it is important to understand what could cause feces with mucus or simply its discoloration.

One of the reasons for lightening the stool may be your daily diet. For example, you often eat foods that are high in fat (dairy or fat). And all this can affect both the color of your secretions, and their smell.

If frequent use of the above products causes a yellow or light yellow stool, do not postpone consultation with the gastroenterologist, since such signs indicate abnormalities in the functioning of the pancreas.

If there is white mucus in the stool, the cause may be the intake of antibiotics, anti-inflammatory drugs or drugs against tuberculosis, as well as oral contraceptives. With all these minor changes, you need to be urgently examined by a specialist.

Sometimes the changes are not associated with any ailments, and after a while the stool color normalizes itself.

Symptoms that can not be ignored

Anxiety should be beaten if, in addition to the light color of the stool, the following symptoms are present:

• A sharp loss of weight, appetite;
• Darkening of urine;
• Severe nausea;
• Bloating;
• Elevated body temperature for no reason at all;
• Yellowing of the skin;
• Feces with mucus.

With such manifestations and light beige feces, you need to urgently go to a local medical institution.

Possible diseases

• The stool is discolored, a sharp pain in the right side, an increase in body temperature (combination). You may have acute cholecystitis or a blockage of the bile ducts.
• A chair with a repulsive smell, light yellow and liquid. The intestine does not digest fats properly. This can happen if you have pancreatic cancer, gallstones, chronic pancreatitis.
• Cal with mucus. The causes of mucus from light yellow to greenish shades may be multiple. For example, you have internal fistulas of the rectum. When there is white mucus in the feces, frequent pains in the rectum are tormented , the probability of having such a disease increases.

Chair with white non-uniform inclusions

Sometimes, various heterogeneous formations may be embedded in the stool. They can be particles of undigested food products - lumps, fibers, flakes, grains of grains, seeds. As a rule, such inclusions in feces are quite normal. Especially, if there are no other ailments (their characteristic signs). The same applies to the stool with impregnations of this kind in infants.

With any signs of a "bad" stool in combination with the symptoms of the diseases described above, consult a specialist, preferably a gastroenterologist. Timely treatment is an important part of your health.