Why is shit black? What should I do?

Stool color is black, more consideration and dietary factors, peptic ulcer, gastric cancer and other reasons, the general patient can be treated for the cause.

1, dietary factors when the human

body eats too much blood products, animal liver, vegetables and other foods, usually causes stool color black. Generally stop eating the above food about 3 days, stool color can return to normal.

2. Peptic ulcer

such as gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer and other reasons, resulting in gastrointestinal mucosal bleeding, patients will also appear dark stool color symptoms. Patients with less bleeding can be treated with proton pump inhibitors, gastric mucosal protective agents, hemostatic drugs and other drugs under the guidance of doctors. If the gastrointestinal mucosa bleeding is relatively large, patients can also stop bleeding through electrocoagulation, surgery and other methods.

3, gastric cancer

gastric malignant tumor volume is large, tumor ulceration leads to tumor surface blood vessel rupture bleeding, and then lead to patients stool color black. Patients need immediate surgical resection of malignant tumor after diagnosis. If the tumor cannot be completely removed by surgery, the patient also needs to cooperate with radiotherapy, chemotherapy and other methods after surgery to inhibit the growth of cancer cells.