Light color of stool: what can it talk about?

Diarrhea in children and adults - a fairly common phenomenon, which can be caused by different reasons. But worry should not only upset the intestines, but also the color of the stool. This is our article.

It is necessary to pay attention to what the person ate, if he has a light color of the stool for 2-3 days. Sometimes the use of fatty foods such as sour cream, lard, butter, leads to the appearance of a liquid light yellow stool.

Taking medication

Often, the appearance of light yellow, white or light stool may be a symptom of a violation of liver activity when exposed to drugs such as anti-tuberculosis 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, the light color of the stool, not associated with any serious diseases, becomes brown within 1-2 days. And in the presence of serious diseases, gray, white or light feces may persist for several days without any apparent cause.

Possible diseases and symptoms with light feces

If the light color of stool is associated with serious diseases, the following symptoms are usually present:

- fever;

- painful sensations in the abdomen, right upper quadrant or right side;

- the skin and sclera of the eyes are colored yellow;

- worsening appetite, gradual and unexplained weight loss ;

- vomiting and attacks of nausea;

- much swollen abdomen.

Chair white, gray or discolored

The light color of the feces in an adult may indicate biliary tract, pancreas, or liver disease. To understand what could have caused the disease, you will need to describe your condition most accurately. For example, there is a discolored stool + a possible painful sensation in the right side + a probable temperature increase + a probable darkening of the urine. This combination of symptoms may indicate hepatitis, acute cholecystitis or obstruction of the bile duct. If you find all these symptoms, you need an urgent visit to a specialist.

Periodically a light yellow, liquid, foul-smelling stool

Frequent liquid feces of light yellow color with a bad smell can indicate intestinal disturbances during digestion of fats, which can become a source of diseases such as gallstones, gall bladder and pancreas cancer, chronic pancreatitis, celiac disease. For these diseases special treatment is required, they are very dangerous for life.

White scurf on feces or white mucus in feces

When clots appear greenish, dirty white, white-yellow or white mucus in the feces or white on the stool can indicate diseases such as proctitis and internal fistulas of the rectum.

White inclusions in feces

In the presence of white inclusions, grains, fibers, specks, lumps, grains in the feces, and if at the same time the light color of the stool - you should not worry. These are particles of undigested food. In such cases, no special treatment is required.

"Worms" white in feces

Almost all intestinal parasites have a white or light yellow color. Most often in the feces can come across pinworms. When white worms appear in the feces, it is necessary to take tests and visit the infectious disease parasitologist. It is not recommended to be treated independently of parasites.