What color and shape is the stool?

Excretion behavior is the most important physiological phenomenon of people. It is the concentrated embodiment of metabolism. For a healthy human body, it is necessary to maintain at least one bowel movement a day, otherwise the body will easily have some gastrointestinal health problems. Stool retention is a more serious symptom, which will cause serious gastrointestinal discomfort. Let’s take a look at the color and shape of stool retention? I hope everyone can understand it.

The human intestine is 5 to 6 meters long and has thousands of folds and wrinkles, with an average of a bend every 3 to 5 centimeters. Many residual wastes are trapped in the folds of the intestine and cannot be discharged. Over time, these food residues can accumulate to as much as 3-7 kilograms, and in severe cases weigh up to 18 kilograms. They dry up, rot, and ferment under the action of bacteria, and stick to the intestinal wall like rust, forming a black, foul-smelling, toxic substance - stool.

From the perspective of the food digestion process, after chewing and initial digestion in the mouth, the food enters the stomach through the esophagus, is fully mixed with gastric acid and various digestive juices, and then enters the intestine, passes through the duodenum, jejunum, ileum, cecum, colon, sigmoid colon, and rectum, and is excreted from the body. In this process, only when the food residue enters the colon, the water in the residue is absorbed, and the residue begins to gather and take shape, can feces begin to form. Therefore, the so-called stool accumulation should be the feces accumulated at the end of the colon and ready to be discharged from the body.

1. Brown stool: toxins are in the liver and cells.

2. Brown to blue: Toxins are in the liver, such as tobacco or secondhand smoke.

3. Blue-gray color: toxins in the prostate: prostatitis.

4. Emerald green: Toxins are in the liver, toxins from taking medicines or hormones.

5. Yellowish stool: toxins in the gallbladder; greenish yellow with white spots: gallstones.

6. Dark green stool: kidney toxins, dark green with white spots: renal toxins: kidney stones.

7. Grayish white stool: mercury poisoning (such as excessive mercury in cosmetics).

8. Gray-black stool: lead poisoning.

9. Milky yellow stool or foamy or jelly-like lumps: spleen toxins.

10. The stool is black and has a sweet smell when opened: diabetes.