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Stools that are healthy are well-formed and the length of a wrist to elbow, resembling a sausage with cracks and a honey brown color. Unhealthy stools can appear as hard lumps like nuts indicating constipation, or soft blobs or fluffy pieces with ragged edges signaling diarrhea. Liquid stool with no solid pieces and mucous or foul-smelling stool may be signs of infection, alcohol, or drug abuse.

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Stools Graphic

Stools that are healthy are well-formed and the length of a wrist to elbow, resembling a sausage with cracks and a honey brown color. Unhealthy stools can appear as hard lumps like nuts indicating constipation, or soft blobs or fluffy pieces with ragged edges signaling diarrhea. Liquid stool with no solid pieces and mucous or foul-smelling stool may be signs of infection, alcohol, or drug abuse.

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Sizing up your stool

The shape, size and consistency of your stools can be an indicator of good health, of a potential health problem or of alcohol and drug abuse. Heres how to analyze them:
HEALTHY Stools come out similar to a sausage but with cracks in the surface. Well formed and the length of your wrist to your elbow, honey brown colour. Stools are smooth and soft in the form of a sausage or snake, well formed and the length of your wrist to your elbow, honey brown colour. UNHEALTHY Stools appear in separate, hard lumps, similar to nuts. This type of stool remains in the colon the longest amount of time; a sure sign youre constipated. Most common stools.

Stools are sausage-like in appearance but lumpy.

Stools form soft blobs with clear-cut edges, and easily pass through the digestive system. Soft diarrhea.

Stools have fluffy pieces with ragged edges. Considered mushy stools, they indicate diarrhea.

Stool is mostly liquid with no solid pieces. Passed quickly through the colon; is indicative of severe diarrhea possibly as a result of a viral or bacterial infection.

Has a mucous-like consistency, with bubbles and a foul odor. This may indicate unsafe amounts of alcohol or recreational drugs.
SOURCE: HIGHWAY TO HEALTH THE HAMILTON SPECTATOR

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