What is the cause of black and green stool?

Dr. Addison Mitchell
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2025-05-20 10:27:30 Views: 80 times

Black green stools may be caused by diet, indigestion, enteritis and other reasons.

1, diet

eating a lot of green vegetables, which contains chlorophyll in the digestion process will not be completely digested, so the stool is black green.

2, indigestion

When gastrointestinal dysfunction caused by indigestion, because food is not digested by digestive juice, the stool discharged is black green.

3, enteritis

due to pathogenic bacteria infection of the intestinal tract, resulting in intestinal mucosa congestion, edema, stool thin, while intestinal peristalsis abnormal, the stool discharged is dark green, with mucus.

Abnormal stool needs to be timely taken to the hospital for systematic examination, clear cause.



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