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Referring to stool, melenic NM

Posted By: ABC on 2007-07-19
In Reply to: Is melenotic a word?? Or should it - mtmomof3

Subject: Referring to stool, melenic NM

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Subject: It is melenic.

Melanotic is a word but it pertains to melanin or skin pigment. Melenic pertains to melena or black stool. Note the As and Es. Many doctors use this term incorrectly, and many MTs too! I always change it.
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"Melanotic - referring to the presence of melanin. Often confused with melenic. Melenic stools, not melanotic stools." Vera Pyle Eighth edition
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Subject: I always go with melenic...

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Subject: melenic, as per Sted's GI/GU 3rd edition. nm


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Subject: melenic versus melanotic

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Subject: hmmm melanotic or melenic???

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It's pretty clearly spoken.


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Subject: stool

Most probably barium-negative stool.
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Subject: scybalous stool - nm

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Subject: Please help with stool testing

I am not familiar with what ACT is, but I am fairly certain this is what he says, but I cannot document it either.  Would appreciate any help with this.


We are going to get stool cultures for ova and parasites, and all of the usual s/l ACT suspects, including C. difficile overgrowth. 


TIA!


Stool Softener
Subject: Stool Softener

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Subject: Here are a few stool pathogens. sm












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  • Stool Culture, Vibrio Only
  • Stool Culture, Yersinia Only
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    Subject: AFB positive stool?

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    Subject: melanotic stool?

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    Subject: Stool for OMPN??? culture

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  • 3: Ova and Parasite Examination
  • 4: Stool Culture, Campylobacter sp Only
  • 5: Occult Blood, Fecal, Immunoassay
  • 6: Stool Culture, Yersinia Only
  • 7: Stool Culture, Vibrio Only
  • 8: White Blood Cells (WBC), Stool
  • 9: pH, Stool
  • 10: Giardia lamblia, Direct Detection EIA
  • 11: Helicobacter pylori Stool Antigen
  • 12: Acid-Fast (Mycobacteria) Broth-Based Culture and Smear
  • 13: Acid-Fast (Mycobacteria) Broth-Based Culture and Smear and Susceptibility
  • 14: Fungus (Mycology) Culture
  • 15: Fecal Fat, Quantitative
  • 16: Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) Shiga Toxin, EIA
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  • 18: Cyclospora Smear, Stool
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    Subject: ova and parasites -correct. (stool sample?)


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    Subject: S on those kinds of products can mean that a stool softener has

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    Subject: is there such a thing as s/l bilious color stool


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    Subject: brown heme-negative stool?


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    Subject: "melanotic" stool--fact or fiction??

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