Make an appointment with your doctor if: 1  Vomiting lasts more than two days for adults, 24 hours for children under age 2 or 12 hours for infants.  You've had bouts of nausea and vomiting for longer than one month.
Could you have accidental bowel leakage (ABL) or other bowel control problems, known as fecal incontinence? Get the details on these distressing conditionsâ¦. Fecal incontinence, also called a bowel control problem, is the accidental passing of solid or liquid stool or mucus from the rectum.
However, black stool can also be caused by a serious condition, such as bleeding in the digestive tract caused by a peptic ulcer. Black stool that is tarry in texture and foul smelling is often a symptom of upper gastrointestinal bleeding from the esophagus, stomach or small intestine. This is called melena. Rectal bleeding of bright red blood with clots, sometimes mixed with stool, is called hematochezia.