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Third trimester stool is black is what's wrong


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The stool is black in the third trimester of pregnancy, considering dietary factors, drug factors, disease factors, etc.
1. Dietary factors
Eating too much pig liver, pig blood, duck blood, red dates, spinach and other iron-rich foods in the third trimester of pregnancy can cause black stools, which belong to normal physiological phenomena and do not require special treatment.
2. Drug factors
Women in the third trimester of pregnancy use ferrous sulfate, iron dextran, ferrous gluconate and other drugs according to medical advice, which can cause stools to be black. Generally, stool can return to normal color after discontinuation.
3. Disease factors The
stool in the third trimester of pregnancy is black, and may also be caused by esophagitis, pipe ulcer, esophageal hiatus hernia, gallbladder stones, acute hemorrhagic necrotic enteritis and other diseases.