It’s unfortunate that poop talk tends to make adults squeamish, because our stool can offer some powerful clues about what’s ...

Colonoscopy prep is complete once your poop is a light yellow with no dark particles. You'll need to follow a specific low-residue diet to empty your colon. During this process, your stool will change ...

Stool comprises digested food, proteins, bacteria, salts, and other substances produced and released by your intestines. What your poop looks like can be important. Unexpected changes could be a sign ...

Everyone poops, but it’s still something a lot of us have an awfully hard time talking about. (Unless you’re my 6-year-old and 3-year-old, who cannot talk about poop enough, it turns out.) But it’s ...

Like most people, I've pooped a lot in my lifetime. Usually things follow a fairly predictable pattern, but now and then I've seen unusual colors and shapes. I don't feel bad or have any discomfort, ...

Whether your baby is formula-fed or drinks breast milk, the color of their poop will probably change quite a bit day by day. And although there's a wide range of normal, some stool colors might ...

There is a whole app subsector targeting nervous new parents that claim to provide a constant stream of data from body temperature to heart rate, respiration, pulse and movement, to name a few. But a ...

Color The poop emoji has one thing right: the brown coloring. The combination of stomach bile and bilirubin, which is a pigment compound formed from the breakdown of red blood cells in the body, gets ...