Poo checker

What's your poo telling you?

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Bristol Stool Type 1

Type 1

Small hard lumps like rabbit droppings
This suggests severe constipation.

Bristol Stool Type 2

Type 2

Sausage shaped, but hard and lumpy
This suggests constipation.

Bristol Stool Type 3

Type 3

Sausage shaped, but hard, with cracks on the surface
This suggests constipation.

Bristol Stool Type 4

Type 4

A soft, smooth sausage - THE IDEAL POO!

Bristol Stool Type 5

Type 5

Separate soft blobs
May be fine if the child is well and softer poos can be accounted for e.g. increased fibre intake or taking laxative.

Bristol Stool Type 6

Type 6

A mushy stool
May be fine if the child is well and softer poos can be accounted for e.g. increased intake of fibre or taking laxative.

Bristol Stool Type 7

Type 7

A liquid stool
This could be diarrhoea or overflow.

* Based on the Bristol Stool Form Scale produced by Dr KW Heaton, Reader in Medicine at the University of Bristol.

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