YOUR POO could be telling you a lot about your health - do you know the warning signs to watch out for? Here's how the Bristol Stool Chart could help you.

On the Bristol Stool Chart, stools are assigned a number from 1 to 7, from hardest to loosest. Normal stools are those in the middle of the chart, in the 3 to 4 range.

Shape If your types of poop occasionally fall into a non-normal category on the Bristol Stool Chart, you don’t have to be alarmed. However, if you have pencil-thin stools, that can be a sign of ...

But the take home message, Gilger said, is that most colors, though possibly startling, are perfectly normal. Stool changes — a lot — in the first year of a person’s life.

The analysis showed that the stool color card would prevent three more deaths and 11 more liver transplants among the 303 children than the traditional no-screening approach and would do so for ...

‘Normal’ bowel habits – doctor’s guide to stool appearance and if something is abnormal Bowel cancer is one of the most common cancers in the UK, and the symptoms often begin when you go ...

This handy chart was developed in the early 1990s through research conducted by doctors based at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. For instance, using an early version of the scale for a 1992 ...