Any time you're experiencing painful pooping or the inability to have a bowel movement, it's worth talking to your doctor.

If your types of poop occasionally fall into a non-normal category on the Bristol Stool Chart, you don't have to be alarmed.

The Bristol Stool Chart is a resource that helps healthcare ... or large intestine. A person may still poop when they are constipated, but bowel movements may be painful or difficult to pass.

Colleen Sloan, PA-C, RDN, explores how diet can help manage childhood constipation. "She's so constipated. I give her a laxative, and she eats fruit. What else can I do?" This familiar concern echoes ...

The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny, shrimp-like animals known as ...

An infant’s poop typically changes color and consistency during the first few days, weeks, and months of life. A wide range of colors is usual. In infants, the main reasons for changes in stool ...

It's the scale you should think about your bowel movements by. Everybody's poop will vary slightly. However, the ideal stool is smooth, easy to pass and brown. Healthy poops shouldn't take long to ...

Comfort (i.e. how easy it is to push out your poop) is too. “What really matters is that people have complete, spontaneous bowel movements,” Dr. Berookim says. “This means having soft stool ...

Poop can also be something nutritious, useful and actually eaten (again) in its own right, three researchers point out in the December issue of Animal Behaviour. Tallying just the examples from ...

But if you’ve always thought checking your loo roll after wiping was a secret quirk of yours, good news ― you’re meant to consider the colour of your poop too, because it can reveal a lot ...

Just as she was about to give up, she noticed poop in her son’s hands. “What was going through my mind when I saw him holding the poop? ‘Do I laugh or cry? Why does he love his poop so much?