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Poo checker
What's your poo telling you?
Type 1
Small hard lumps like rabbit droppings
This suggests severe constipation.
Type 2
Sausage shaped, but hard and lumpy
This suggests constipation.
Type 3
Sausage shaped, but hard, with cracks on the surface
This suggests constipation.
Type 4
A soft, smooth sausage - THE IDEAL POO!
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.
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.
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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