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Find out what the shape, texture, and consistency of your poop says about your health, according to the Bristol Stool Chart—from hard and lumpy to soft. 7 Textures of Poop and What They Mean ...
Steatorrhea (or steatorrhoea) is the presence of excess fat in feces.Stools may be bulky and difficult to flush, have a pale and oily appearance, and can be especially foul-smelling. [1]
These "ropeworms" are often discussed, with images shared and claimed as evidence of successful detoxing, on autism forums and altmed Facebook groups, wherein various toxic and/or ineffective products are falsely claimed to cure autism and a myriad of other conditions and ailments. [7]
Oily stool, a.k.a. steatorrhea. Steatorrhea refers to bulky, foul-smelling, oily stool that tends to be pale in color and float in the toilet bowl, resisting flushing.
Gongylonema pulchrum was first named and presented with its own species by Molin in 1857. The first reported case was in 1850 by Dr. Joseph Leidy, when he identified a worm "obtained from the mouth of a child" from the Philadelphia Academy (however, an earlier case may have been treated in patient Elizabeth Livingstone in the seventeenth century [2]).
Black tarry poop may be a sign of bleeding in the upper part of the gut (stomach and first part of the small intestine) as blood becomes black as it travels through the gut, says Dr. LeBrett.
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Human feces photographed in a toilet, shortly after defecation.. Human feces (American English) or faeces (British English), commonly and in medical literature more often called stool, [1] are the solid or semisolid remains of food that could not be digested or absorbed in the small intestine of humans, but has been further broken down by bacteria in the large intestine.