Whatever your shit to say about your health

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Updated January 5, 2015.

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Alternative medicine practitioners often ask clients about their droppings, as part of the evaluation. Learn how usually green stools, pale stools, yellow stools, blood in stool, mucus in the stool, stool thin pencil are interpreted and some chairs. Note that you always talk to your doctor about the symptoms you are experiencing.

What does a bowel movement Ideal think?

An ideal seat is believed to medium brown, ecru his card. The body easily they can without stress and discomfort and consistency of toothpaste. About 4-8 inches long, the Water Framework should enter smoothly without sticking to the toilet bowl. There should be little or smell gas.

Fast flowing stools

You can quickly sink stools indicate that a person is not enough to eat fiber-rich foods such as vegetables, fruits and whole grains, and drink enough water. This stool is often dark as it sat in the intestines over a long period. Learn 5 Tips to increase your water consumption.

Light-colored stools

Stool light (or pale, white, gray or color tone) can be caused by a lack of bile in the stool. Outside the inadequate bile or bile duct obstruction can be caused by diseases such as cholecystitis, gallstones, Giardia, a parasitic infection, hepatitis, chronic pancreatitis, or liver cirrhosis. Bile salts excreted by the liver stool character give brown. If is reduced by bile, feces is much brighter.

Some medications such as bismuth subsalicylate (Pepto-Bismol, Kaopectate®) or antacids containing aluminum hydroxide may also result in pale stools. Pale stool may be temporarily after a barium enema test. Bright chairs can also be shiny or greasy, floats and smells bad because of undigested fat in the stool (see loose stools, smelly).

Floating stools

Soft stool that smells floats, on the side of the shell, or is difficult to evacuate adhesive may mean there is an increased fat in the stools called steatorrhea. Floating Chairs can also be caused by excess gas. Find out more about the causes of floating stools.

Green chairs

Stools green light in the toilet bowl can be alarming, but there are some reasons why it occurs. Continue reading to continue on the causes of green feces.

Mucus in your stool

Mucus in the stool may indicate whitish inflammation or irritation of the intestinal wall. Mucus in the stool can occur with constipation or diarrhea. Find out more about the causes of mucus in the stool.

Loose stools

Two common causes loose stools or diarrhea are infections of the gastrointestinal tract, or poor digestion (eg lactose intolerance). In traditional Chinese medicine, diarrhea, bloating, lack of energy, loss of appetite and signs can be used for a state such as spleen qi deficiency is known. It is not necessarily the actual spleen, but that refers caused by stress and poor diet to fatigue and poor digestion. Find out more about the causes loose stools.

Pencil thin stools

Excessive deformation may cause a stool is long and thin dark pencil because it caused to decrease the anal sphincter to contract and the opening of the anus.

Is pencil thin stool may be caused by a condition known in traditional Chinese medicine Qi deficiency of spleen. Other symptoms of spleen qi deficiency include bruising, confusion, bloating, diarrhea, fatigue, anorexia, loose stools with little odor, symptoms that worsen with stress, undigested food in the stool and difficulty passing stools end. Spleen Qi deficiency can be caused by stress and fatigue.

Eating certain foods in excess is believed that the spleen qi deficiency worse. Food involved fried or fatty foods, dairy products, fruits and raw vegetables and cold drinks, all suspected cause "cold" and "moisture" in the body. Dietary management of spleen qi deficiency is to eat hot, cooked foods. Ginger tea and cinnamon tea warmer.

Pencil thin stools may also be caused by an intestinal obstruction. Rectal polyps benign enlarged prostate, colon, rectum and prostate are some of the conditions that may cause clogging.

Yellow Stool

Yellow stool may indicate that the food passes through the digestive tract relatively quickly. Yellow chair can be found in people with GERD (gastroesophageal reflux). The symptoms of GERD are heartburn, chest pain, sore throat, chronic cough and wheezing. The symptoms are worse when lying down or bending usually. Foods that can aggravate symptoms of GERD include peppermint, fatty foods, alcohol, coffee and chocolate.

Yellow chair may also show problems with the gallbladder and liver. The liver bile salts are feces its brown color and when the production of bile, which often appears first as yellow chairs changed.

If the chair is too greasy and smelly, there may be excess fat in the stool - causes malabsorption diseases such as celiac disease. If the onset sudden can also be a sign of a bacterial infection in the gut yellow stool. Long yellow chair can also by Giardia infection or other causes.

Rare stool

With constipation, were rare or hard stools more frequently with voltage. It is often associated with a lack of fiber and water. More information about the causes and cures for constipation.

Stool that comes in little balls

Pellet is feces feces come in small round balls instead of long and soft. It is often due to lack of fiber, such as gel forming fibers in the intestine where it is fermented by intestinal bacteria and mixed with water. In traditional Chinese medicine fecal pellets is caused by a condition such as liver qi stagnation. Liver qi stagnation, by stress and lack of exercise can aggravate the problem caused. To learn more about the causes of the chair pellet.

Undigested food in the stool

Some plant foods, such as corn and grape skins may appear in the stool in identifiable slices, because people do not have the necessary, certain components of the cell walls of the plant to digest enzymes. According to Ayurveda, the undigested food in the stool indicates Agni (digestive fire of the body) is not functioning properly. Ginger tea can be recommended before meals. In traditional Chinese medicine, stool may be with undigested food through kidney yang deficiency.

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