People generally defecate every day, but have you ever noticed the shape of your stool? Some people may say: It stinks, what’s so beautiful! The most effective way to see what’s going on inside the intestines is to observe the stool. It is said in the Internal Canon that “what goes on inside must go on outside”, and stool is like a mirror that can reveal the intestinal environment, so as to understand our health status. Before the normal stool science, let’s understand the basic concept of constipation and diarrhea. 1, constipation: more than 3 days without bowel movement and have difficulty in defecation, incomplete feeling of defecation, dry and hard stool. 2, diarrhea: more than 3 times a day, and accompanied by stools in a thin watery, egg-flake soup-like, rotten stool-like. It is said to know your enemy and know your enemy, know the constipation and diarrhea, you can better remember the standard of normal poop. Standard 01 Best frequency: 3 to 21 times a week Whether it’s three times a day or three times a week, the poop is within the normal range. In other words, it is normal to have 3 to 21 bowel movements per week. In fact, the number of times you poop is not the problem that you should dwell on, the key to the problem is whether you can accept the frequency of poop. If you don’t poop a day you feel bad, more likely due to psychological anxiety, not a real digestive tract disease. What you need to do at this time is to adjust your mind, do not make it difficult for yourself, let nature take its course. Standard 02 Best color: brown or golden yellow The color of normal poop is brown or golden yellow. If it turns white (white clay-like change), or black (tar-like stool), or red (blood stool), you should consider going to the hospital. The color of the stool is related to the intestinal and hepatic circulation of bile acids in the body. If the color of the stool changes, it may be a sign that something is wrong with your body! This time the problem may be the gallbladder or the pancreas. However, here I would like to talk about black stool alone, which is related to the consumption of pig’s blood, bismuth drugs and iron supplementation drugs, and black stool will also appear when there is a large amount of bleeding in the lower digestive tract. So in the face of this color of the stool, must be vigilant, if necessary, you have to go to the hospital. Standard 03 stool shape: According to the professional Bristol stool typing, the normal stool traits should be in the range of 3 to 5, looking like a banana or sausage. Of course, occasionally other shapes of stools are allowed. But if the shape of the stool is always abnormal, then it may really be the body is also abnormal. The next thing to identify with the following conditions 1, irritable bowel syndrome is a functional gastrointestinal disease, is also a common cause of diarrhea, it has a corresponding clinical basis for diagnosis, and need to exclude organic disease. Unfortunately, there is no good treatment for irritable bowel, but it is certain that this disease is closely related to emotions, such as whenever nervousness and anxiety will have a bowel movement, always want to run to the toilet. 2, ulcerative colitis If you poop more often, for a longer period of time, the poop is mixed with mucus and blood, and accompanied by bouts of vague pain in the lower abdomen, you must go to the hospital to see if you have inflammatory bowel disease. By observing the color of the stool, shape, smell, etc., you can roughly determine whether the intestinal health, if the intestinal health red light, that the body will suffer, so that the “poo” health, we should also pay attention to the following points in life. 1, change lifestyle habits. More exercise, drink more water, eat more vegetables and fruits coarse grains, eat less spicy and pickled food. 2, refuse to “hold stool”. As the saying goes, people have three urgent, stool is very valuable, and now many people because of the morning commute time is tight, there is no time to squat a good toilet, not knowing that this is the onset of constipation is getting younger and younger a big reason. The morning after the colon peristalsis is the most active period of the day, cherish every stool, so that you away from constipation trouble. 3, appropriate release of pressure. Stressful life, long-term tension, anxiety, depression, irritability and other emotions, easily lead to gastrointestinal peristalsis slowed down, digestive juice secretion reduced, appetite loss, indigestion symptoms, endangering intestinal health. 4, careful to buy health products. The circle of friends of probiotics, weight loss tea, cleanse tea and other products, is crowned with a variety of magical functions, loved by certain groups of people. I do not know, long-term use of these will affect the intestinal function, inducing electrolyte disorders, vitamin deficiency, intestinal peristalsis weakened. Especially containing rhubarb, aloe vera, senna such anthraquinone-based laxatives, it is not long-term use. In addition, there are many friends with long-term bowel difficulties, even after adjusting their habits, or little effect, you can consider using lubricants such as glycerin enemas to assist in bowel movements and induce bowel movements. One more thing is very important: Concentrate when defecating, don’t always think about playing with your phone when squatting in the toilet.