Black bowel movement

Black bowel movement is actually black-colored stool and this medical condition can be detected by a change in the color of stools. Improperly digested food can be detected with a dark yellow stool, but stool color change is a symptom and not a disease or medical condition.

Black bowel movement is mostly developed due to unhealthy nutrition, but there might be other possible causes and we will see which they are.

Causes

Blood is the reason why the stool becomes black in color and when people see this, it raises a lot of distress. This can suggest intestinal problems, so you need to act. There are several reasons why black stool is created and the first to mention is gastroenteritis or the stomach flu. Stomach flu is mostly developed due to intestinal infection and this happens mostly because of eating adulterated foods. This condition causes a lot of pain due to the inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. Stomach flu, which affects both intestines and the stomach, may cause ulcers and bloody diarrhea.

The next possible cause is internal bleeding, mostly caused by broken blood vessels. Blood cannot be distributed in the usual way once the blood vessels are broken, and the blood missing from the blood vessels makes a tarry and black mixture. Know that life is in danger if you are having bloody diarrhea, so visit the hospital the minute you notice this problem.

The patient having an acute gastrointestinal hemorrhage seeks a physician's help because of hematemesis, melena, or hematochezia, or because of symptoms of hypovolemia such as fainting or lightheadedness.

Hematemesis is the vomiting of blood, which may be obviously red or have an appearance similar to coffee grounds. Melena is the passage of black, tarry stools. Hematochezia is the passage of fresh blood per anus, usually in or with stools.
Melena is the most common presenting symptom of major gastrointestinal hemorrhage. About 90% of quantitatively important gastrointestinal bleeding episodes occur from sites above the ligament of Treitz.
Melena usually means bleeding from this location. It takes 50 ml or more of blood in the stomach to turn stools black. One to two liters of blood administered orally will cause bloody or tarry stools for up to 5 days, the first such stool usually appearing within 4 to 20 hours after ingestion.
Thus, a melenic stool is indicative of recent hemorrhage but does not indicate the presence or rapidity of bleeding at the time of passage.
Administration of blood into the small intestine or cecum can cause melena if the blood remains in the intestine long enough. This makes the hypothesis untenable that melena is caused by the effect of gastric acid and pepsin on blood. Although melena usually means upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage, the small intestine and cecum should be studied if no cause for bleeding is found in the esophagus, stomach, or duodenum.

✓ Fact confirmed: Hematemesis, Melena, and Hematochezia I. Dodd Wilson; 1990

IBD, or inflammatory bowel syndrome, can cause a black bowel movement. This intestine inflammation irritates the wall of the intestines and makes it red in color, and in some cases, the wall of the intestines is damaged by the ulcers created by the IBD. Digestion of food is a process by which inflammatory bowel syndrome interferes and impairs proper nutrient absorption.

The last possible cause we will mention in this text is diverticulitis, and this is a large intestine disease, which causes infection and swelling of the diverticula, or the pouches. Diverticulitis is a diverticula infection, which causes abnormal skin growth, mostly among adults, and it alters the large intestine structure. Bleeding from the rectum and pain can also accompany this disease, but this happens only in more serious cases. Due to everything mentioned, black and tarry stool can be produced by bowel movement.

Treatment

Digestive issues, such as food indigestion indicated by yellow stool, can be eliminated with exercise plans and other changes in life habits. But the black bowel movement is a bit more serious problem and must be treated as soon as possible.