What to do if you can't pull out stool during a test

When there is a problem with the body, such as unbearable abdominal pain or persistent diarrhea, you will be asked to take a stool test when you go to the hospital for a check-up. This is also the most direct way of examination and can quickly find the problem. But what if the stool test fails? This is something that worries many people who need to get checked. In fact, the easiest way is to wait until you feel the urge to defecate before taking the test. There is no need to force yourself too much.

1. What to do if you can’t pass stool during a test

If you can't pull it out, you can't check it. It is recommended to wait until you have a bowel movement before doing this test. It is recommended to drink more hot water, avoid eating chili peppers, and quit smoking and drinking.

2. What is a routine stool examination?

Routine stool examination is a basic examination during physical examination, but many people ignore it because it is troublesome. If you often have blood in your stool, your stool is too watery or too hard in a short period of time, your stool contains mucus or pus and blood, your stool suddenly becomes thinner or you have difficulty going to the toilet, or your stool is rice soup or milky, you need to consider a routine stool examination. Routine stool examination includes two aspects: visual observation and microscopic examination of stool. It is of great significance for the diagnosis and treatment of digestive tract diseases and intestinal parasitic diseases.

3. What does a routine stool test usually check?

Routine stool examination for general characteristics includes quantity, color and shape, odor, parasite bodies, stones, microscopic cytology (white blood cells indicate intestinal infection, red blood cell bleeding, bacterial dysentery), macrophages seen in bacterial dysentery and ulcerative colitis, food residues (indicating digestion status, starch granules are seen in pancreatitis, connective tissue appears due to lack of gastric protein), parasites and parasite eggs (to determine the presence or absence of parasites).

Routine stool examination is a routine examination for digestive system diseases. It is best to perform a routine stool examination if you have digestive system symptoms.

4. Precautions for routine stool examination

For routine examinations, collect a piece of fresh feces about the size of a broad bean and place it in a special paper box for specimen collection for examination. When checking for occult blood in the stool, you should abstain from eating meat, liver, blood, large amounts of green leaves, and iron-containing foods for 3 days before collecting the specimen. The stool specimen must not be mixed with urine or other substances.