Why do you shit black?

Black stools may be caused by factors such as diet, drugs and diseases.

1. Diet

If patients do not pay attention to food hygiene for a long time, it may lead to gastrointestinal bacteria or parasites infection, such as Helicobacter pylori, hookworm, schistosomiasis, etc., causing gastrointestinal bleeding, resulting in black stools.

2. Drugs

for patients who take non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for a long time or overdose, easily cause gastrointestinal bleeding, causing black stools.

3.

Diseases such as biliary ascariasis, peptic ulcer, liver cancer and esophagitis are also easy to cause gastrointestinal bleeding, resulting in black stools.