Poop and Health: What Different Colors and Shapes Mean

From painful poop to watery poop to stinky poop, your toilet bowl says a lot about your health. Read more:

Your poop can change depending on the foods you eat, what you drink and your gut microbiome. Most stool changes aren't too concerning, but some can indicate a serious health issue. Everyone poops: Don’t be afraid to talk with your healthcare provider about it.

Timestamps:
0:23 Painful poop
0:49 Red poop
1:11 Black poop
1:25 Watery poop
1:45 Small poop
1:58 Stinky poop

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[MegUSN]

I am having an issue with grayish (mostly white) stools. This video didn’t even cover that. I don’t have Jaundice, I don’t itch. I don’t have dark color urine. My only other symptom is I’m having achy right pain on my side/back (not kidney flank pain) and constantly feeling like I need to go to the bathroom when I don’t. I don’t have a gallbladder (removed years ago) so it can’t be gall stones. I do often have IBS, but I started having issues absorbing fat right after having my gallbladder removed. I just started noticing this for a couple of days (and it’s every bathroom trip) so I have a call into my VA primary care to schedule an appointment.

[gigaphanty]

this is the good types of healthy good stuff we should be watching to stay healthy

[decodingcap]

Afterall we all are living beings. :) Good video. Plain and simple.

[josephschauster]

good advice! I have had all those kind of poop before.

[pristinebeach]

Happy to have a perfect, brown poop today

[itsphilippinesgaming]

mine is a littile bit of orange and red

[iaintvisible]

Mine is sometimes pebbles or stinky so I am trying my best to get hydrated and eat not too much protein. Btw thanks for the information

[UltimateHealthCheck]

Great video, information and knowledge...;)

[Idkbro]

Mine was black for a while but then went back to normal brown

[Miketheike]

as someone who drops bomb sized poops, i see this as a win

[krystledelgado]

I can’t seem to figure out what wrong with my son! He’s had diarrhea for about a week now. He’s 7 and couldn’t attend school because it was so watery it would just come out. I find the color weird. It’s a sage green color. He’s not taking any supplements other than a Childrens multivitamin but he’s been taking it for years. We did do immodium a couple days but didn’t help.

[me]

Hello docotr, please help me. i have been going to doctors for 11 months and nobody in my country is able to diagnose my problem, they keep saying that i have IBS but i see very small black fragments of stool while am having a releave. i had a colonoscopy and the result said that i have ileal mucosa nodular lymphoid hyperplasia and i dont even know what is it. they are keep giving me ultra gas go medications, with all of that i have cramps in both side of my kidneys and in bladder also . i am very worried about small fragments of black stool. any suggesstions?? thank you.

[noobieisnoob]

Mine is usually pebbles but im trying my best to be hydrated

[samsamsam]

Mine is black but looks like green and my stomach hurts so much what does that meannn 😢

[davidjohnlozano]

Color of my poop is green and watery whats wrong with me?

[davidlilley]

Hopefully it's nothing to worry about but I've been drinking a lot of banana milkshake and uhh yeah the colour changed alright it's completely yellow hopefully that's not going to be a problem for me but there's a warning for the other readers if they see this just knows you get scared incase like me it was a bit hard to but nothing as nasty as before constipation that was no joke

[Rip_ghost]

I thought I had red, but I realized it was my chips

[markermino]

my poop is watery and black mixed with brown what does it mean?

[deezae]

I pooped black green red and more.... And i dont drink too much coffee i still dont understand what green poo means

[vijayshankar]

One issue is left out. Pathologists will check bacteria or microbe or germ or fungus and do a clinical analysis. Discussing about colour is meaningless without checking the good or bad bacteria.