Why do women have sticky stools?

For women, it is important to have a normal bowel movement every day, which can indicate that the diet is normal and the digestive system is functioning normally. However, if you sometimes find that your stool is sticky and unformed, you need to pay attention, because this may mean that your body has too much moisture. You should pay more attention to dehumidification. In addition, you should also have a reasonable diet.

Sticky stools are often caused by an unreasonable diet. A reasonable diet can increase appetite, improve gastrointestinal function and correct constipation. Your daily diet should include more high-fiber foods, such as vegetables, fruits, beans, fungus and other foods that are rich in vitamins and fiber. Oats, sweet potatoes, potatoes; sesame seeds, walnuts; pig blood, duck blood; mung bean, red bean and other bean pastes; bananas and other fruits. Try to eat less spicy foods, such as chili peppers, mustard, etc.

The absence of foul odor in each stool excretion is a sign of a properly balanced diet. People who habitually have dry stools should significantly increase their water intake to prevent constipation.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that thick stools indicate dampness in the stomach and intestines. Because dampness is sticky, if you accidentally eat something warm and dry, it will cause damp heat, but if you accidentally catch a cold, it will cause cold dampness.

The stool is sticky and difficult to pass, and may be accompanied by constipation and foul-smelling flatulence.

The differential diagnosis should be made with the following symptoms:

1. Bloody stools

Drainage-like bloody stools refers to diarrhea and bloody stools caused by damaged gastrointestinal function due to certain infectious factors, damage to the gastrointestinal mucosa, or other reasons, which affect the normal functions of the human body.

2. Gray stool

Normal stool should be yellowish brown. This is because after the bile secreted by liver cells enters the enterohepatic circulation, it undergoes a series of chemical changes, and the yellow-green bilirubin in the bile turns yellowish brown and is excreted from the body with the stool. Biliary obstruction, the passage of bile into the intestine is blocked, resulting in a lack of bile in the digestive tract, causing the stool to be grayish-white clay-like.

3. Dysentery-like stool

Bacillary dysentery is a common acute intestinal infectious disease caused by Shigella dysenteriae. Its main lesion is purulent inflammation of the colon, with clinical manifestations such as systemic poisoning symptoms, abdominal pain, diarrhea, tenesmus, and bloody stools. Due to different clinical manifestations and disease courses, medical scientists divide dysentery into common dysentery, toxic dysentery and chronic dysentery. Although there are many types of dysentery, only severe and toxic types are life-threatening to children. Most children with toxic dysentery have a sudden onset of illness and persistent high fever. Intestinal symptoms are often not obvious in the early stages of the disease, and some may not pass dysentery-like stools until about a day later. Before the typical dysentery stool is discharged, using an anal tube to collect stool or 2% saline enema can help with early diagnosis. During the peak season of dysentery, the child suddenly had a high fever and convulsions, was very weak, and had a pale face.

How to treat sticky stool

1. Regulate nervous emotions, which are related to dietary discomfort. Avoid drinking alcohol, spicy food and other irritating foods.

2. Develop good living habits, have a regular daily routine, actively participate in physical activities, and maintain an optimistic mental state, which can also help improve the function of the digestive tract.

3. You can eat more foods such as coix seed, red beans (specifically adzuki beans in traditional Chinese medicine), pepper, ginger, water chestnut, yam, etc. For general dampness, you can drink some coix seed and red bean soup, but don't drink it for a long time as it is cold and harmful to the body and spleen. If the dampness is more serious and accompanied by spleen deficiency, you can drink some Gorgon fruit and coix seed tea, as Gorgon fruit can strengthen the spleen.

If people with spleen deficiency are greedy for raw, cold and cool food, it will aggravate the cold and dampness in the spleen. The water and dampness cannot be carried away normally, and the cold and dampness are injected into the large intestine, causing soft and shapeless stools that easily stick to the toilet.

Mitigation methods

1. Regulate nervous emotions: It is related to dietary discomfort. Avoid drinking, spicy food and other irritating foods.

2. Develop good living habits: Have a regular daily life, actively participate in sports activities, and maintain an optimistic mental state, which can also help improve the function of the digestive tract.

3. Related to gastrointestinal function: Strengthen gastrointestinal function and enhance gastrointestinal resistance.