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What Causes Black Stool?
Hello, I had black stool yesterday, its rather hard and it doesn t smell. However when the stool hits the water, the color slowly melts away and could be seen surrounding the stool. I took a packet of powdered probiotic directly for consuming instead of mixing it with the drink as it was a new pack and I misread the instructions
Thu, 29 Jun 2017
cannot say. It could be bleeding anywhere inside the GI tract. But it also could be any colored thing you ate.
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