What is the cause of black stool after pregnancy?

After pregnancy, black stool may be related to dietary factors, drug factors, disease factors and other reasons.

1, dietary factors

in daily life if often eat iron-rich foods, such as spinach, animal liver, etc., iron elements will not be completely digested and absorbed by the sulfide in the intestinal tract, resulting in black stool color, which is a normal physiological phenomenon.

2, drug factors

anemia pregnant women may follow the doctor's advice to take ferrous lactate tablets, ferrous sulfate tablets, ferrous succinate tablets and other iron treatment, and the iron in the drug will also be combined with sulfide in the intestinal tract, causing black stool.

3, disease factors

gastric ulcer, gastric perforation, gastric cancer and other diseases can cause gastric bleeding, blood will be mixed with feces discharge, if the stay in the intestinal tract for too long, will also cause black stool.