The squirts. Toilet tornados. Fecal fireworks. Watery stools. A volcanic eruption of the butt variety. Whatever you call it, diarrhea sucks. And while anything can tick off your tummy, from bacteria ...

If you’re a fan of explosive diarrhea, summer is a great time to catch it. Between Cryptosporidium, which can survive in chlorinated swimming pools, and cyclosporiasis, which recently sickened at ...

Despite thousands of years of pant-crapping history, there’s a surprising amount we don’t know about diarrhea. There’s a couple ways we’ve figured out how to treat the symptom. But lots of scientists’ ...

You may not always peek into the toilet after you’ve used it, but the appearance of your poop can tell you a lot about your bowel health. No one type of poop is the gold standard — normal bowel ...

The color of your poop (stool) can provide clues about diseases or conditions affecting the digestive tract. Some of the causes are harmless, like eating colored foods or taking certain medications, ...

What Is Diarrhea With Mucus? Your intestines normally produce mucus to keep your colon moist. Mucus has the consistency of jelly. A small amount of mucus in your poop is normal, but sometimes it could ...

A liquid bowel movement (diarrhea) is usually related to a short-term health challenge like food poisoning or a virus. It may also be related to a chronic condition. Diarrhea can happen to everyone ...

Poop transplants work as well as antibiotics to treat a common and deadly cause of diarrhea, and perhaps even better, researchers reported Saturday. Their small and unusual study suggests that doctors ...

C. diff infection can cause diarrhea. While it may lead your poop to change color, there are no specific colors that are definitive evidence of having C. diff. According to the Centers for Disease ...

People are obsessed with poop. Why does it float? Why do its colors and consistencies vary, and is that normal? (Here are 7 things your poop says about you.) People want to know it all—and now, some ...

A new study suggests that eating these two foods and washing them down with this specific beverage could help clear ...