What is the cause of black stool during pregnancy?

Pregnancy stool black may be caused by physiological factors, drug factors, pathological factors and other reasons.

1, physiological factors If pregnant women

eat a lot of black food or animal viscera, animal blood products, etc., it will lead to stool contains a lot of black pigment or iron sulfide, so that stool black, which is a normal physiological phenomenon.

2, drug factors

If pregnant women are taking ferrous lactate tablets, ferrous sulfate tablets, ferrous succinate tablets and other drugs, it will also lead to stool contains a lot of iron sulfide, resulting in black stool.

3, pathological factors If pregnant women

suffer from gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, gastric cancer and other diseases, it is easy to cause upper gastrointestinal bleeding, but also cause black stool.