Many doctors use the Bristol stool chart to help evaluate the health of bowel movements. The chart is a form scale, meaning ...

Learn more about green poop in children. Red is not a healthy poop color. Poop is usually red because there is blood in it. Parents or caregivers should seek medical advice as soon as possible.

But that wasn’t the only red flag Oda ignored. She also noticed blood in her stool but chalked it up to hemorrhoids. Blood in the stool can sometimes be linked to less serious conditions ...

Without treatment, bleeding in the digestive tract can lower a person’s red blood cell count and lead to anemia. Doctors can treat constipation with prescription stool softeners and other types ...

New blood tests for detecting colorectal cancer seem like an easy and convenient option compared to a colonoscopy. Instead of ...

reported a 0.47% incidence of NEC in infants who had only occult blood in the stools, a 63% incidence in those who had only gross blood, and a 90% incidence in those with occult blood progressing ...

The FDA last year approved at-home blood and stool tests for the disease, but are they a match for colonoscopies? KERA’s Sam Baker talked about this with Dr. Amit Desai, a gastroenterologist ...