blonndei, rn

I know this response is 7 years late, but I was researching to find out why my LTC patient had clear, gelatinous stools and found this post. He also had tympanic bowel sounds to percussion, very hypoactive bowel sounds to auscultation, and pain with palpation. Vomited several times in 24 hours a dark green/brown thin liquid. No stools until the clear gelatin-like BM. Sent him to the ER, and he was found to have a perforated bowel. He ended up having 12 inches of bowel removed and a resection done. I still don't have the exact pathophysiology of it, except that it could be mucus from inflammation. However, it was not your normal stringy mucus. When he comes back to us and I find out the "how" and "why", I will post another response.