Short and chronic loose stools in an adult

Short-term fluid stool in an adult is most often a symptom of an intestinal infection.

Chronic diarrhea lasts longer than three weeks, while the stool may be not only watery, but also unformed, cachiform.

Cal, especially a loose stool, can be a marker of serious problems of internal organs, systemic metabolic disorders.

The article will not give an unambiguous answer to the question of what to do if you notice a yellow liquid stool in an adult person, but can suggest the main directions of action.

Acute and chronic diarrhea

chair disorders Diarrhea or diarrhea is not an isolated disease, so it should not be treated, But to understand the reason for the "leakage" and what to do in each case. Understanding the nature of diarrhea is the first step to finding its cause.

Stool consistency is not the only characteristic of diarrhea. The frequency of defecation is important, about diarrhea is said, if the liquid stool is more than three times a day.

It is important to have faeces in diarrhea. With cholera, a person loses up to 10 liters of fluid per day during defecation, but all of it - a product of secretion of the intestinal mucosa and feces does not contain, therefore technically the chair with cholera is not diarrhea.

Acute diarrhea is a characteristic of intestinal infections. Most of them in adults and children need not be treated, but wait.

The optimal strategy of helping with diarrhea and all kinds of liquid stools is to constantly replenish the fluid and salt reserves that the body loses with water in the stool.

Acute diarrhea can occur due to the emotional state of the patient - a loose stool as a reaction to certain events.

Gastroenterologists are aware of the relationship between a person's nervous and psychological state with digestion and the state of the intestines, so problems that cause fluid stools are often treated in tandem with psychotherapists.

Chronic diarrhea is a loose or unformed stool for over three weeks. The reason may be a sluggish intestinal infection or IBS due to a previous intestinal infection.

The chair for chronic diarrhea is often not watery, but it is cachiform. It is a mistake to consider such a mode of operation of the intestine by cleansing the body.

Even diarrhea is dangerous, which does not cause serious discomfort and is not accompanied by pain. Dehydration and deficiency of electrolytes, characteristic of acute diarrhea, with chronic diarrhea also occur, but stretch in time.

Not fully decorated chair means that the right amount of water and electrolytes - building and repair materials for body cells - has not been absorbed in the small intestine.

The first with a chronic unformed chair suffer from skin, hair, nails. The person notices signs of premature aging and buys expensive multivitamin complexes and means for caring for themselves, but no significant improvements occur.

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Whatever is used inside or not applied from the outside, if valuable substances are not absorbed in the intestine, then their deficiency is irreplaceable.

If the adult's loose stool for a long time, it will certainly affect the condition of the joints, bones, teeth, on the functioning of internal organs.

The process flows slowly and almost imperceptibly, therefore it is difficult to immediately associate problems with the intestines and the quality of the stool.

If you are not satisfied with the work of your intestine, then before attributing problems with appearance and health for any other reasons, consult a gastroenterologist.

Color, odor, consistency and other characteristics of the

feces. Normally, that is, in a healthy person, the stool has certain characteristics that suggest the correct functioning of the intestine and other digestive organs.

This chair does not have a strong unpleasant odor. Of course, feces can not smell of violets, but the excessively strong and sharp stench of stool can be the reason to suspect that something is wrong with the intestines and digestive organs.

The stool should be uniform. If the feces have veins of mucus or blood, then this is a symptom and an unequivocal occasion to consult a doctor.

Pieces of undigested food and feces as water in an adult mean that the cause of digestive problems is in the small intestine.

It is here that the main valuable substances in the food composition are absorbed and most of the water entering the intestine.

In the large intestine, the chyme normally gets completely digested - only one of eight liters of water is absorbed here, so diarrhea due to inflammation of the large intestine is rarely too abundant and watery, you can not consider pieces of food in the feces.

The fact that the food, which has turned into a stomach in a chyme, has given away its valuable contents, will say feces in the form of sausages. The more liquid stool is called unformed, in it valuable elements pass through the body in transit and leave it with feces without having mastered it.

Brown( a shade of feces can vary from light to dark) the chair acquires as a result of treatment of chyme with bile in the duodenum.

Too light stool, up to white - the result of lack of contact with bile in the process of digestion, which suggests the obstruction of the bile duct and other problems with the gallbladder.

The chair is too dark in color due to the staining of the stool with activated charcoal, iron preparations and other products.

If the explanation for black feces is not, and the state of health is poor, then it is urgent to see a doctor.

Melena or black stool occurs when bleeding from the upper gastrointestinal tract.

This color of feces is explained by the reaction of blood hemoglobin, colored in red, with hydrochloric acid.

Bleeding in the ulcer of the stomach or duodenum can be a life-threatening condition, and therefore requires emergency intervention.

The last sign of healthy digestion is a regular stool at the same time. However, the main difference between the norm and pathology is not in the set of characteristics of feces.

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Quite healthy people can defecate once in two or three days, the color and smell of stool can depend not so much on the disease as on the diet.

By and large, any characteristic of the chair is individual. The problem should be mentioned when the patient is concerned about something, there are real symptoms, and the feces changed their habitual characteristics.

Functional indigestion and diarrhea

Diarrhea and loose stools in general are not mandatory, but a possible symptom of functional digestive disorders - functional dyspepsia and irritable bowel syndrome.

The word "functional" means the absence of organic disturbances, but the functions( in this case, the stomach and intestines) are not being performed properly, as indicated by the loose stools.

Functional dyspepsia is a condition that even 20 years ago doctors were commonly called gastritis.

By the standards of modern gastroenterology, gastritis is a precancerous condition characterized by changes in the gastric mucosa at the cellular level and can be completely asymptomatic without affecting the characteristics of the stool.

The exact causes and treatment of functional dyspepsia and IBS are unknown.

For some reason, the mucosa of the intestine and stomach in some people becomes too sensitive, which leads to a number of symptoms: rumbling in the intestine, the appearance of constipation or a loose stool, the reasons for which do not explain the examinations and examinations completely, abdominal pain, nausea, In rare cases, vomiting.

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Foamy stools in an adult - one of the symptoms of fermentative functional dyspepsia.

Feces can foam for a variety of reasons, but in most cases, the cause is the abuse of carbohydrates, especially simple, including refined foods, which are extremely rich in the diet of modern man.

With prolonged use of sweets, flour products from high-grade refined flour, kvass, carbonated drinks in the intestine, the number of bacteria causing fermentation gradually increases.

Foamy yellow stools( light color of stool can vary up to white) can also serve as a marker of digestive enzyme deficiency in problems with digestive organs, in particular, the pancreas.

Symptoms of digestive disorders, including loose stools, do not allow an accurate diagnosis - diagnostics based on analyzes and hardware methods are needed.

The need to consult a doctor depends on the severity of the symptoms and well-being. If in some cases you can do something at home, then in others, for example, with blood in the feces, the account is sometimes for a minute, and the whole future life depends on the timeliness of the treatment to the doctor.

Behavioral strategy for disorders of

chair Medical science believes that stress and psycho-emotional state are one of the most important factors of intestinal disorders, as a result of which patients are recommended to psychotherapy.

Qualitative psychotherapy - pleasure is not cheap, and resorting to a therapist requires courage and honesty before oneself.

If any of the above is not enough, then there are other ways to find inner balance - change jobs or surroundings, start running / walking / yoga / meditate and so on.

Any methods that can help get rid of stress are good, and as a result, improve the bowel and stool characteristics.

The second thing that you can do and need is to adjust the food. Functional disorders can not be "earned" by eating certain foods, so it is important not only to exclude certain products, for example, to eliminate the yellow liquid stool, how to change the approach to nutrition.

First of all, it is necessary to reduce the overall load on the digestive tract:

• is in small portions;
• eat often - one meal every three hours;
• do not snack between meals;
• at least temporarily exclude sweet fiber( grapes and raisins, plums and prunes, sweet varieties of apples);
• eliminate or reduce the number of simple carbohydrates, especially refined sugars. Sweetheads should replace it with more useful sweets or replenish the body with a zinc deficiency that provokes cravings for sweets and, as a result, a loose stool;
• in the diet to focus on proteins, and fat and carbohydrates use the minimum amount required;
• monitor their condition and exclude from the menu products that cause these or other symptoms, including a liquid frothy stool. When the body's work is adjusted, it will be possible to try to return them gradually.

However, functional disorders are diagnoses of exclusion - when the doctor does not find infections and disorders in the functioning of organs and systems, functional dyspepsia and IBS remain.

Before deciding what to do and how to improve the stool, go through at least a minimal examination.

A person is constantly in contact with unfriendly microorganisms that enter the body with water, food, even with inhaled air.

Protective mechanisms( bacteria-guards in saliva, hydrochloric acid in the stomach, caustic bile acids and so on) usually work, and the person does not notice microscopic attacks.

But if the body is weakened or there are too many "enemies", for example, if hygiene is not observed, then the intestine becomes infected, and the consequences can seriously and permanently affect the ability of the digestive tract to perform its functions, the marker of which can be liquid stool.