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Causes Of Severe Black Runny Stools With Hot And Clammy Skin, Dizziness
hi my mother is 90 yrs old tonight she has had at least a dozen large black,runny, stools she takes a iron pill once a day but this has never happened before her skin is hot and clammy complaining of dizziness she has had several blood transfusions due to being anemic but the doctors cant find where the blood is going do you think she needs to go to hospital to be checked out from her daughter annie
Mon, 17 Feb 2014
Hi,
From history it seems that due to chronic blood loss from some part of her GI tract giving rise low hemoglobin.
Iron medicine does give rise to black stool but as you told this never happened before.
Go for ultra sound abdomen and find out the cause of blood loss.
Ok and take care.
From history it seems that due to chronic blood loss from some part of her GI tract giving rise low hemoglobin.
Iron medicine does give rise to black stool but as you told this never happened before.
Go for ultra sound abdomen and find out the cause of blood loss.
Ok and take care.
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