Bristol Stool Scale

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The Bristol Stool Scale is a medicalaid designed to classify the faecesform into seven groups. Because the form of the stool depends on the time it spends in the colon, there is a correlation between the colonic transit time and the stool type.

The seven types of stool are:

• Type 1: Seperate hard lumps, like nuts
  
• Type 2: Sausage-like, but lumpy
  
• Type 3: Like a sausage but with cracks in the surface
  
• Type 4: Like a sausage or snake, smooth and soft
  
• Type 5: Soft blobs with clear cut edges
  
• Type 6: Fluffy pieces with ragged edges, a mushy stool
  
• Type 7: Watery, no solid pieces.

The "ideal stools" are types 3 and 4, especially the latter, as they are the easiest to pass.

External links

• The Bristol Stool Scale from Medscape.com
  
• Infomation from Solvay Pharmaceuticals
  
• Childhood Constipation

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