Ibs poop chart

Poop can be a tricky subject: We all do it, and excreting waste is critical to life. But the rules of etiquette ensure we’re rarely brave enough to speak openly about it.

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The feces—or stools—that we produce, however, can provide a valuable real-time window into the health of your large bowel (or colon) and gastrointestinal tract. So let’s put those rules aside for now.

Scientists research many odd topics, and stool form is no exception.

In 1998, Stephen Lewis and Ken Heaten from the University of Bristol developed a seven-point stool form scale, ranging from constipation (type 1) to diarrhea (type 7).

Today, the Bristol Stool Chart allows people with gastrointestinal symptoms to clearly describe to their doctor what they are seeing in the toilet without having to provide samples.

For most of us, the form of stool we excrete can vary widely depending, in part, on what we’ve been doing.

A period of dehydration, perhaps associated with a day of sustained exercise, or the delaying of a bowel movement, may be followed by a dr

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