Your newborn is crying – you have fed it, you have given it some love, and it is still crying. It must be a dirty diaper! You make your way to the changing table and get ready to take care of business. Then, you pop off the diaper, and there is the most amazing color ...
There are many causes of oily bowel movements in children and adults. Individuals can identify oily bowel movements by noticing oil droplets floating in the toilet water, stools with white or yellow fatty components, stools that float (due to the large oil component) or even orange waxy bowel movements. As discussed below, oily bowel movements ...
Constipation is medically defined as having less than three bowel movements per week, but everyone is different so it is sometimes hard to determine. Most individuals have one bowel movement a day, and consider themselves to be suffering from constipation if they go two or three without one. When you are afflicted with constipation, you ...
One of the most uncomfortable conditions that one person can suffer from is constipation. I personally have that problem, and I know how unpleasant can be. Constipation’s definition is simple and well known: the impossibility of having enough bowel movements. When we don’t go to the bathroom enough, we feel bloated, full and even we ...
Talking about the color, shape and consistency of bowel movements may not be a subject that many people talk about on a regular basis, but it is sometimes necessary, especially when health is involved. Although the color of a normal bowel movement varies depending on what a person eats, a majority of people are used ...
In layman’s term, constipation is difficulty in bowel movements or infrequent bowel movements. A one-time difficulty in bowel movement does not necessarily mean that a person is constipated. If however a person finds himself straining during a bowel movement more than 25% of the time, has observed hard stools more than 25% of the time, ...
Depression can cause constipation. However, if your depression has caused constipation, you may not even know it. The information you’re about to read is based on my mother’s constipation, and how her depression led up to it. First of all, a person with major depression typically abandons their usual eating habits. Most people, actually, don’t ...
Congratulations on your newborn baby! Newborns have simple needs: love, mother’s milk and clean diapers. For the first few weeks of life bowel movements can be very exciting both for baby and parents. Breastfed babies have very different pooping patterns from formula fed babies. Here’s a quick primer on bowel movements in the breastfed baby ...
Having black bowel movements that are foul smelling can be extremely upsetting to anyone. However black bowel movements can be caused by everything from dietary supplements such as iron, blood in the stool and in some cases even diet changes. Melena is black tarry bowel movements and caused by blood in the stool which indicates ...
There weren’t many things that surprised me about parenting when my daughter was a baby. But baby poop-such an everyday part of life as a diaper-changing mama-actually surprised me. Plenty of moms go into motherhood without being sure of what’s normal (and what’s not) among baby poops. Here’s what you can expect of a healthy ...
