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Is Blood And Mucus In Stool A Side Effect Of Chemotherapy That Was Performed For Brain Cancer?
I have stage 3 brain cancer and I just finished my 5 days a month chemo, my concern is my stool has mucus and light red blood and it s very foul. I haven t passed a normal bowel movement in like 2 days as is normal when I m on my chemo. I was wondering if I should goto the emergency room?
Tue, 10 Dec 2013
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I can understand your concern, the chemotherapy and the present complain of stool stained with mucus nothing in each other, if there is mucus in stool then chances of intestinal infection is likely and it could be protozoal infection, if I would be your Doctor then I would treat you with Metronidazole 40 mg twice in day for 10 days, this gives very good response and worth trying in case like yours have nice day.
Thank for asking to HCM
I can understand your concern, the chemotherapy and the present complain of stool stained with mucus nothing in each other, if there is mucus in stool then chances of intestinal infection is likely and it could be protozoal infection, if I would be your Doctor then I would treat you with Metronidazole 40 mg twice in day for 10 days, this gives very good response and worth trying in case like yours have nice day.
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