Thick White Substance Covering Stool/ Bowel Posted: 05-21-07 01:38am
Should I be worried? When I had a bowel
movement, there was a thick white
substance resembling mucus covering my
bowels. I could barely see the bowel for
the white substance. The bowel was solid.
I'm finishing an antibiotic and I started
a birth control pill about four weeks ago.
Can you tell me what's the probable
cause?
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Llewellyn
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 21 Jan 2007 Posts: 1743 Location: NY
Posted: 05-21-07 14:25pm
I have never heard of birth control pills
causing that. There are a lot of things
that that could be.
Mucus in the stool is a symptom of
irritable bowel syndrome. You can take a
look at this
digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/ibs
_ez/#symptoms and see if you might have
other symptoms of ibs.
Here is a whole list of things that can
cause mucus to be in your stool:
wrongdiagnosis.com/symptoms/mucus_stool/ca
uses.htm
So there are a lot of possibilities. It's
probably nothing to panic about if it was
a one time thing and you don't notice any
other changes. I would suggest mentioning
it to your doctor the next time you go in
though. If you notice other changes or if
it happens again, you might want to make
an appointment specifically for that just
in case.
