Is it normal to have three or four bowel movements a day?

Under normal circumstances, adults should defecate once a day, stool for yellow banana shape. If the patient needs to defecate 3-4 times a day, this is not normal, generally divided into two possible: the first, infectious diseases, such as acute gastroenteritis, or bacterial dysentery, etc. In addition to increased stool frequency, patients with abdominal pain, fever, abdominal distension, etc. Laboratory blood count increased, C-reactive protein increased. Second, inflammatory bowel disease among non-infectious diseases, such as Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis, intestinal polyps, etc., can also cause increased stool frequency. Therefore, it is recommended that patients should go to the digestive department for treatment, improve colonoscopy, further clarify the diagnosis, and give specific causes and symptomatic treatment.