Diarrhea in children and adults is a fairly common occurrence that can be caused by various reasons. But not only intestinal upset should be alarming, but also the color of the stool. This is our article.
You will definitely need to pay attention to what a person ate if he had a light color of feces for 2-3 days. Sometimes the use of fatty foods such as sour cream, lard, butter, leads to loose, light yellow stools.
Medication
Often light-yellow, white or light-colored stools can be a symptom of liver dysfunction when exposed to medications such as anti-TB drugs, antibiotics.
What to do?
At the first appearance of unusual symptoms, it is necessary to observe the consistency and color of the stool for several days. As a rule, light-colored stools, not associated with any serious disease, turn brown within 1-2 days. And in the presence of serious diseases, gray, white orlight stool can persist for several days for no apparent reason.
Possible diseases and symptoms of light stool
If light-colored stools are associated with serious medical conditions, the following symptoms are usually present:
- elevated temperature;
- pain in the abdomen, right hypochondrium or right side;
- the skin and sclera of the eyes are colored yellow;
- loss of appetite, gradual and unexplained weight loss;
- vomiting and bouts of nausea;
- severely bloated belly.
Chair white, gray or bleached
Light-colored feces in an adult may indicate diseases of the biliary tract, pancreas or liver. To figure out what could have caused the disease, you will need to describe your condition as accurately as possible. For example, there is discolored stool + likely pain in the right side + likely fever + likely dark urine. This combination of symptoms may indicate hepatitis, acute cholecystitis, or blockage of the bile ducts. If all these symptoms are found, an urgent visit to a specialist is necessary.
Intermittent light yellow, loose, foul-smelling stools
Frequent light yellow liquid stools with a foul odor may indicate intestinal disorders in the digestion of fats, which can become a source of diseases such as gallstones, gallbladder and pancreatic cancer, chronic pancreatitis, celiac disease. For thosediseases require special treatment, they are very life-threatening.
White coating on stool or white mucus in stool
When clots of greenish, off-white, white-yellow or white mucus appear in the stool or a white coating on the stool can indicate diseases such as proctitis and internal fistulas of the rectum.
White inclusions in feces
If there are white inclusions, grains, fibers, specks, lumps, grains in the feces, and if the color of the feces is light, you should not worry. These are particles of undigested food. In such cases, no special treatment is required.
"Worms" of white color in feces
Almost all intestinal parasites are white or light yellow in color. Most often, pinworms can come across in the feces. When white worms appear in the stool, it is imperative to take tests and visit an infectious disease parasitologist. Self-treatment for parasites is not recommended.
