What Is Significant about Vomit Color?
Colorless and clear.
- Normal gastric juice is colorless, translucent or slightly mixed liquid. Bile reflux is yellow or grass green; grayish white is seen in a large amount of mucus; red, brown, and brown are seen in mucosal damage, upper gastrointestinal bleeding, gastritis, gastric ulcer, and gastric cancer.
- Name
- Gastric juice color
- category
- Endoscope
Normal gastric juice color
- Colorless and clear.
Clinical significance of gastric juice color
- (1) Off-white turbidity: chronic gastritis. (2) Yellow or grass green: bile reflux. (3) Red or light brown: bleeding from ulcer disease, bleeding from superficial gastritis and gastric mucosa, bleeding from gastric cancer, bleeding from duodenal diverticulum, varicose veins of esophagus and gastric fundus and rupture bleeding. (4) Brown: old bleeding.
Gastric fluid color precautions
- Various drugs that affect gastric acid secretion, such as omeprazole and cimetidine, are discontinued 3 days before gastric juice collection, and drugs that affect gastric acidity and alkalinity, such as sodium bicarbonate.
Stomach fluid color related symptoms
- Vomit coffee-like substance