A healthcare provider will want to do some tests to see if there is an underlying cause for symptoms such as diarrhea, abdominal pain, and nausea or vomiting. A stool culture may be part of a number ...
Most of the time, you go to the loo and everything is as normal. Then, out of the blue, it suddenly looks frothy, foamy or bubbly. Is this cause for alarm? The answer: it depends. 'After you ...
Constipation can make stool harder and drier than usual, slowing the movement of stool within the body. Some people may have frequent but incomplete bowel movements. They may return to the ...
A frothy breakthrough at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), using lasers with a silver metal foam that's as light as air, has created the brightest yet X-ray source ever, twice as ...
On a vacation last winter in Costa Rica I found myself caught in a large rip tide. Every instinct in my body wanted me to fight the current, but once I was able to overcome the fear that I could not ...
You may unsubscribe at any time. Before we get started, let's level on the Bristol Stool Form Scale, a medical tool that helps categorize stool into seven buckets, which allows doctors to assess ...
Intestinal worms, which live in the gut, are some of the world’s most common parasites. Because they live in the gut, you can sometimes tell you have intestinal worms by looking at your stool. These ...