Have you ever done a stool test? (allergies, infection, bleeding)

[atben99]

Has anyone here ever done a stool test? They take your stool and check to see if you have any digestion problems.

I did an endoscopy not long ago and they found an infection and ulcer. So I think my colon is messed up too.

I have really bad food allergies so it's very annoying when you can't eat what other people can eat. It started a few years ago and getting worse, so I have reason to believe it has to do with my old diet where I ate a lot of bad foods.

[SouthernBelleInUtah]

Mine was to look for the bacteria that causes ulcers, h.pylori.

[WyoNewk]

Uh, yeah. Was there another question?

It's kinda yucky but no big deal.

[temazepam]

Yeah, once in my teens, I got food poisoning. I had to turn in a stool sample to check for blood in it. I think I even had to do something with PH papers in it, but I forget. Sure enough, when my family and I turned it in to the lab, there were traces of blood found in it. I forget whether I was given antibiotics. I do recall being on a bland diet and having to wait it out, I think several days to a week. I felt weak, feverish and headachey. My diahrea was so bad, it came out like water and I had trouble holding it long enough to dash to the bathroom. I was also given Gatorade to rehydrate...different flavors of it. Things got scary for me right after drinking the red one - my um, "stool" looked like pure blood. Anyway, I had to turn in more stool samples until it showed blood-free at the lab.

[tickyul]

Yes, I did one to check for bleeding.....actually ordered the test online.

Pretty simple.....just jab the test probe in the feces...and then put the probe back into a little sealed container filled with fluid. Do this for 3 day...then shake the contents really well and apply to the tester......tester will indicate blood/no blood.