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What Causes Severe Stomach Upset Along With Greenish Bowels?
Hi, I am a 26 year old female. 5 days ago I ate something that apparently upset my digestive system. There was chicken in the food. I threw up a couple of times since then but it was mostly severe liquid green diarrhea. Sometimes dark green to black if I try taking iron supliments. I haven t been able to eat property. I weigh 99 pounds normally and I lost 6 pounds in 4 days. I get easily dehydrated because of the amount of stool passing which is over 20 times a day. It s painful. Temperature unstable. I went to the hospital 3 times and was given injections for abdominal pain and nausea, saline and regular drip, they ran a stool analysis but it turned out negative because I ve been taking Ciprobay antibiotics, which apparently didn t work. I was given another antibiotic called flagyl. I dont know if this is a bacterial infection in my digestive system or what is it. Please help me. Thank you.
Mon, 6 Jul 2015
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The green color of the stool is because of the increasing frequency of stool, the bile does not have the time to undergo changes as it passes through the bowel.
You should continue the flagyl as prescribed. This should be combined with probiotics which have been shown to help with diarrhea.
It is also important to use enough fluids, oral rehydration fluids or sport drinks such as gatorade would be used.
I hope this helps
The green color of the stool is because of the increasing frequency of stool, the bile does not have the time to undergo changes as it passes through the bowel.
You should continue the flagyl as prescribed. This should be combined with probiotics which have been shown to help with diarrhea.
It is also important to use enough fluids, oral rehydration fluids or sport drinks such as gatorade would be used.
I hope this helps
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