Dr. Trisha Pasricha

It's kind of like getting a little report card on your health.

And so you can take a look and learn so much information just by what you're seeing and what you know about that bowel movement.

All right.

So I'm glad that you look, Mel.

Okay.

I find it so odd when I ask my patients, well, what did your poop look like?

And they say, well, I don't look.

Like, what are we here for then, you know?

And so like, you have to look.

When you look, here's what I want you to be on the lookout for.

The shape, the consistency of the stool gives you a lot of information about how quickly that stool has been able to move through your colon.

Okay.

The color we're going to get into, that gives you a lot of information.

How you felt, make note of that.

How did you feel when you had a bowel movement?

Were you in pain?

Were you uncomfortable when you had a bowel movement?

Did you feel better after you had one?

Did you feel bloated in between?

you can gather lots of different information from what it looks like, how you felt, and then you can use that information to make some changes.