What causes foamy diarrhea?

Diarrhea is a common phenomenon in life. In most cases, diarrhea is related to people’s diet. Therefore, when people have diarrhea, they must find the cause and take timely symptomatic treatment. Many people have experienced foamy diarrhea. What’s going on? Let’s take a look at the explanation below. I hope everyone can understand that if diarrhea occurs, you must seek medical treatment in time.

1) Foamy stools: Eating too much starch or sugary food can increase the fermentation of food in the intestine, and the resulting stool will be dark brown, watery and foamy.

2) Foul-smelling stools When babies are partial to protein and eat too much food containing protein, these proteins can neutralize the gastric acid in the stomach, thus reducing the acidity of the gastric juice and making it impossible for the protein to be fully digested and absorbed. Coupled with the decomposition and metabolism of bacteria in the intestinal cavity, the stools of these babies are often foul-smelling.

3) Shiny stools When you eat too much fat, too much fatty acid will be produced in the intestinal cavity, which will stimulate the intestinal mucosa and increase intestinal peristalsis, resulting in light yellow liquid and larger stools. Sometimes the stools are shiny and can even slide in the toilet bowl.

4) Green stool If the stool is green, small in volume, and contains a lot of mucus, it is hunger diarrhea. In addition, some children who are fed formula milk have dark green feces. The reason is that a certain amount of iron is added to formula milk. After the iron passes through the digestive tract and comes into contact with the air, it turns dark green.

5) Egg drop soup-like stool Young patients with viral enteritis and pathogenic Escherichia coli enteritis often have egg drop soup-like stool.

6) Tofu-like stools are often seen in enteritis caused by fungi.

7) Watery stools are often seen in food poisoning and acute enteritis.

8) Grayish white stools Patients with bile duct obstruction due to various reasons will excrete grayish white stools. Medically it is called clay-colored stool. In addition, if you consume too much milk or too little sugar, the fatty acids produced will combine with the minerals calcium and magnesium in the food to form fat soaps, and the feces may also appear grayish white, hard, and have a foul odor.