An ostomy is a surgery that creates a hole to allow stool (poop) or urine (pee) to leave your body through your belly. It’s a new exit route for waste if you can’t poop or pee the way you usually would. Your ostomy’s exact spot on your abdomen will depend on your reason for...
When you peel off those first newborn-sized diapers, you'll be confronted with something that looks like sticky, greenish-black tar. This is your newborn's first bowel movement,known as meconium, which is a mixture of amniotic fluid, bile, mucus, lanugo, skin cells, and more.1 Most bab...
I found a magnetic whiteboard and ordered some magnetic dry-erase rectangles to use in place of sticky notes, and I put it up right next to my desk. The idea was to have the visual there for me, and to have an interactive component (moving the magnets across the columns). I liked it...
It causes diarrhea and blood sticky stools. It is an extremely contagious infection and can spread very easily. Even a small number of germs can make you extremely sick. People with shigellosis may shed Shigella in their stool (waste), spreading the infection to others even weeks after ...
Read on to learn more about what exactly constipation is, the potential causes, and what you can do to remedy the sticky situation. Have you been sitting on the toilet all too often for all too long, straining to do your business, but alas, to no avail? Well, you’re not alone. Up...
1.) Avoid any activity that causes you to “bear down” (e.g., chronic constipation, chronic coughing, repeatedly lifting or moving heavy objects, etc). Use stool softeners (Metamucil, Citrucel, Colace) liberally for 3 months postoperatively. If you develop a cough or bronchitis then call...
The irritation causes copious amounts of mucus to secrete, which then coats the stool, to protect the walls of the intestine. Fluffy stools with patches of gelatinous, stringy mucus In this second example, the saddle has a sticky, gelatinous surface in places, along with fluffy, dry edge...
Black Stools (Not Sticky, No Odor) Causes of black stool include iron pills or bismuth-containing medications (such as bismuth subsalicylate or Pepto-Bismol). If the stool color is dark because of any of these medications, it is typically not sticky in texture and is not foul-smelling. ...
I could not move, I was running a high fever, vomiting and not passing any stool. They did an xray, found free air in my abdomen admitted me to the hospital and gave me an NG tube saying my bowel would "heal itself" if the stomach was drained. Three days post NG tube, my heart...
We can say that the Paleo Diet may positively affect some of the risk factors for heart disease, but what does it do to others such as sticky platelets, the stability of the heartbeat, inflammation, or the state of the endothelial cells that line our arteries? We just don’t know. ...