What happens when you have black stool after childbirth?

Postpartum has been pulling black stool may be related to food factors, drug factors, gastrointestinal bleeding and other reasons.

1, food factors

intake contains more melanin black sesame, chocolate and other foods, may cause more pigment deposition in the stool, stool color blackened.

2, drug factors

Postpartum women generally need to follow the doctor's advice to use ferrous sulfate, ferrous gluconate, iron dextran and other drugs to play a role in blood. Because iron and intestinal hydrogen sulfide combined, iron sulfide will be formed, leading to melena.

3, gastrointestinal bleeding

Women with chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer, colitis and other gastrointestinal diseases, regardless of production or not, gastrointestinal bleeding may occur, manifested as hematemesis, black stool and so on.