Elimination (with pictures)
 

Well ... the things you learn while surfing the net!

As a nurse and here at 3FC, I'm surprised how much people don't know about healthy bowel habits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Stool_Scale

Have you never used the Bristol Stool Scale? You surprise me! We use it all the time over here.

Oh my goodness. That's - well - interesting!

By the way, SusanB, is that what you mean by Move Yourself? :rofl:

Funny, because I was sort of wondering about digestive health this morning!

Originally Posted by Primm:
Have you never used the Bristol Stool Scale? You surprise me! We use it all the time over here.

Consider me one who has never used it! I have heard of Bristol-Myers...I have heard of Bristol, VT...I have heard of The Bristol Stomp...but I had never heard of The Bristol Stool Scale before this moment :shrug:

OMG...that is too funny! I'm in my last year of nursing school and have yet to see this chart. I do believe my classmates would get a kick out of this! I also work at the largest hospital in Lexington and no one has ever mentioned it, thankfully.:D

i think this chart would really be useful in the U.s. It seems like the word "diarrhea" is often overused for any soft stool.

I had no idea there was a poop chart, LOL!
Good to know I am doing extremely well in that department, hah!

Hahaha. Very, um, informative!

That is actually very informative Susan! And, oddly amusing to me. :)

Alena - I am not doing so well... sadness...

Hmmm.... how is it that I'm normally a 4 but feel constipated!! Weird.

I'm actually very glad you posted that. ;)

Solidly informative ;)

No, we've never used that! We have 8 or 10 descriptive terms we use but no official chart. We might use it now. The gals at work quite liked it too.

Oh! now I realize that Primm must be in the medical field also. I thought she was commenting on a cultural diff between where she lives and the States :D

Somewhere, on my road travels, I was at a State rest stop, and in the ladies' rest room there was a large framed picture/shadowbox thing on the wall. It contained dried ( I hope!!) different animal eliminations and labels on who they were from. Like fox, squirrel, relatively small forest folks :D no bear samples :devil:

but back to the OP, I guess it is valuable to have a standard to compare to!

Oh there's Holly! I now have the Bristol Stomp stuck in my head!!!