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Ulcerative colitis is a chronic disease in which inflammation and ulcers occur throughout the colonic mucosa. Recently, the ...

Eating certain foods can cause a person to have blue poop. People should be aware of their stool and seek medical care if there are any major changes. People can pass blue stools if they consume food ...

Some people with COVID-19 develop diarrhea that is soft and yellowish or greenish in color. It may also occur with other symptoms, such as nausea. While you may know coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) ...

The signs of IBS used to be too taboo to even mention, but now they're all over TikTok. Here's what's behind the cultural pooping shift and why it matters. Jessica was a writer on the Wellness team, ...

Pebble poop is poop appearing as small, hard, separate lumps. It can also appear as a solid piece that looks as though it consists of pebbles. Both types are a sign of constipation. Constipation is a ...

In late 2023, Alexandra, a 66-year-old retired woman in D.C., was defrosting a piece of human feces that she purchased over the internet. Her goal was to reduce the stool into a sloshy, biologically ...

Researchers have developed a non-invasive stool test that detects colorectal cancer with nearly 90% accuracy by analyzing gut ...