I have noticed small white balls in my stool

rasche · Newbie Joined: 05 Jun 2005 Posts: 19

Hi. I'm 30 year old male and I'm pretty scared right now because last night I have noticed some small white balls in my stool.
I don’t know at all what could cause this to happen.
I have always had pretty hard stools and always have to strain but these last few days I have suffered from diarrhea and some mild abdominal cramps.
I was sure it was caused by some food poisoning and didn’t contact any doctor over this but when I saw that last night, I became pretty frightened. Could this be cause with some medications? What should be my next step?

renault · Newbie Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 14

I don’t have to think a lot about it to tell you that you definitely should schedule your self a doctor’s appointment with a gastroenterologist if possible.
All your symptoms lead to one disease called giardia, a parasite infection. The man in most cases is being infected by drinking water that has these small cysts in it.
In most cases it causes almost no symptoms but in some people can cause diarrhea, abdominal cramps and weight loss. Like I already said, you should contact your gastrologist and let him take a stool sample to determine are there any parasites in it. If this really is your case, then you should get some antibiotics and in a week or so, the infection will be ancient history!

I have noticed small white balls in my stool

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