A very disturbing sign is the situation when an adult becomes sharply discolored and watery by excrement, the urine darkens, the temperature rises and there is a sharp paroxysmal pain in the abdomen. When this symptom appears, you need an urgent call to a specialist to identify the cause that caused such a malfunction in the body. The appearance of diarrhea of white or light cream in the adult often indicates a specific disease that requires immediate treatment. They are distinguished by specialists a few:
- Most often it is a symptom of proctitis or intestinal candidiasis. One of the alarming signs of the appearance of these ailments can be called colorless cheesy lumps or flakes in the stool. Both these diseases are caused by parasitic fungi, and it is said that in the intestine of the patient due to their negative influence there was a disturbance of the microflora;
- White diarrhea can also occur due to a large accumulation of fluid in the gallbladder, in which case it has a sharp and unpleasant odor;
- Also, a white liquid stool in an adult patient always appears due to the fact that digestive processes in the digestive tract are broken. The specificity of such a light diarrhea is that its appearance is provoked by the insufficient processing of bile food masses in the intestine. This is due to the squeezing or complete blocking of the bile duct with a stone or tumor.
In all the typical cases, diarrhea and white feces are necessarily accompanied by severe darkening of the urine and yellowing of the skin, but the pain syndrome, fever and sharp dehydration of the body for this type of liquid stools are completely uncharacteristic. Acts of defecation in these pathologies in the patient pass with a non-intensive character, and their watery consistency can appear only a few times, and then the feces, remaining the same light shade, become formed.
Causes of white diarrhea in a child
The first thought when a kid has feces that have no shade, young parents become suspicious of hepatitis. This is not entirely true. Although such feces are a typical sign of ailment, there are still many reasons that provoke their appearance. Therefore, if at the same time as the discoloration of the stools of the baby the dark urine does not darken and concentrated urine, the cause of the pathology should be sought in another. First of all, you should consult a specialist and find out the true prerequisites that caused the child to have white diarrhea with flakes or lumps. Among children, as well as among adults, the causes of the appearance of a loose stool that does not have any shades can be very serious, caused by abnormalities of the internal organs. The most likely specialists are the following:
- The appearance of white diarrhea is very often provoked by intestinal flu or rotavirus infection. Exercises of the baby brighten and lose any shades in this case a few days after the onset of the disease. Additional symptoms in the child in this case will be fever, general weakness, nausea, or vomiting;
- Congestion of bile also provokes the appearance of white diarrhea in children. Most often, this pathology in small patients arises because of anatomical features: twisting or bending of the gallbladder.
But most often white diarrhea with lumps or flakes, which appears in the child, does not conceal serious dangers, but arises as a result of errors in nutrition( with excessive amounts of sweets or fatty foods).Also, clarification of the liquid stool in children is a reaction to potent medicines.