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Bristol Stool Form Scale

Stool Type

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

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References

Lewis SJ, Heaton KW. Stool form scale as a useful guide to intestinal transit time. Scand J Gastroenterol. 1997;32(9):920-4.
National Collaborating Centre for Women's and Children's Health (UK). Constipation in Children and Young People: Diagnosis and Management of Idiopathic Childhood Constipation in Primary and Secondary Care. London: RCOG Press; 2010. (NICE Clinical Guidelines, No. 99.) Appendix G, Bristol Stool Form Scale. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK65370/

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Bristol Stool Form Scale

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