Esophageal varices are enlarged veins in the wall of the lower esophagus or upper stomach. When these veins rupture, they may cause bleeding in the esophagus and lead to blood in the stool or in ...

Black stool: Uradomo warns that black or tarry-looking stools can indicate bleeding in the upper gastrointestinal tract. This includes your esophagus, stomach and small intestine. Chronic diarrhea ...

If you have an underlying gastrointestinal condition ... resulting in anal tears and bleeding. Only a doctor should manually remove poop from the rectum. If you have poop stuck halfway out ...

I am seven months post Roux-en-Y bariatric surgery. I am regularly having bloody stools. No pain. The blood is bright red, and I do eat nuts daily. The blood is contained throughout the stool. No ...

Twelve times a day, a machine scrapes cow poop from the barn floor and sends it to an anaerobic digester, a sort of giant, mechanical stomach ... be an indicator of bleeding in the higher ...

If the bleeding when you wipe coincides with ... you'll likely have other significant GI symptoms aside from blood in the stool, such as stomach pain, diarrhea, upset stomach, or weight loss.

An uncommon but seen complication of some types of bariatric surgery is gastric and duodenal ulcers. These ulcers can bleed, but the blood is usually digested, causing the stool to be black.