Stool chart

Extra Ideas Knapsack™ : Unit 13 : poo

Activity

Match the descriptions below with the 7 stool types in the chart.

Type 2 has already been done for you.

1. Fluffy pieces with ragged edges, a mushy stool
2. Like a sausage but with cracks on its surface
3. Like a sausage or snake, smooth and soft
4. Sausage-shaped but lumpy
5. Separate hard lumps, like nuts (hard to pass)
6. Soft blobs with clear-cut edges (passed easily)
7. Watery, no solid pieces (entirely liquid)

It’s a fact!

The Bristol Stool Chart was developed at the University of Bristol, England, and first published in the Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology in 1997.

The form of the stool depends on the time it spends in the colon.

Did you know...?

• Types 1 and 2 indicate constipation.
• Types 5–7 tend towards diarrhoea.
• The ideal stools are Types 3 and 4, especially Type 4.

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