Your bodily emissions are an important health topic that
deserves serious attention, regardless of how irritating it may be. In
fact, if you ignore what you deposit in your toilet, you could be
flushing your health down the drain.The shape, size,
color, and other fecal features can tell you a great deal about your
overall health, how your gastrointestinal tract is functioning, and even
give you clues about serious disease processes that could be occurring,
like infections, digestive problems, and even cancer.
Hard and dry:
If you are experiencing problems going (and have dry, hard-to-pass
stool when you do finally go), it is worth reducing your dairy intake
for a week or two to see if that helps. And being dehydrated can also
lead to this problem because if the body is lacking in water, it will
draw it and conserve it from wherever it can find it.
Little lumps:
“An ideal stool looks like a torpedo—it should be large, soft, fluffy
and easy to pass,” says Foxx-Orenstein. But when conditions are less
than ideal, the stool may become more like little deer pellets. A lack
of fiber in the diet may also to be to blame. And since fiber holds on
to fluid, a lack of it will lead to harder, pellet-like poops that may
be more difficult to pass.
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