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Black color of feces - melena.
Success in saving your own health often depends on the observation and vigilance of the victim himself. Paying attention to dangerous symptoms, you can not only prevent, but also stop a life-threatening condition of the body in time.
Such dangerous symptoms include an indicator of the state of feces, a visual assessment of which is available to the victim himself and should alert him.
A very dangerous sign is black feces, which are called "melena" in medicine. This condition is a sign of internal bleeding, which may not be felt by the person at low intensity.
The black color of feces occurs when the stomach or intestines fill up with blood. Bleeding can occur anywhere in the digestive tract, or it can be in the mouth or nasal cavity. Blood enters the intestines when swallowed.
Internal bleeding can open with ulcers of the stomach and duodenum, trauma to the esophagus, with polyps and diverticula of the esophagus and intestines, with trauma to the intestine with a foreign object accidentally swallowed (bone, shell fragment).
Melena can be accompanied by general weakness, dizziness, low blood pressure, light-headedness, and even fainting.
If such a dangerous symptom of "black feces" is found, an ambulance should be called and no drugs or food should be taken. If internal bleeding is suspected, an endoscopic examination of the GI tract is done to confirm the diagnosis and stop the bleeding.
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