APPLIED RADIOLOGICAL ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Poop is normally brown in color. This is due to the processes and chemical reactions that take place in your gut when your food is digested. A variety of factors, such as health conditions, some types of foods, and certain medications, can change the color of your poop.

Detailed explanation-2: -Light-Colored Poop If your poop is light-colored, yellow, clay-colored, or very light brown, this may be a sign of: An infection or inflammation (swelling) in your gallbladder, liver, or pancreas. Alcoholic hepatitis, which is inflammation in your liver caused by alcohol consumption.

Detailed explanation-3: -All shades of brown and even green are considered normal. Only rarely does stool color indicate a potentially serious intestinal condition. Stool color is generally influenced by what you eat as well as by the amount of bile-a yellow-green fluid that digests fats-in your stool.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ideally, your stool should be somewhere between firm and soft. Thankfully you can figure this out just by looking at it – there’s no need to do a touch test. If your poop is a well-formed log and it wasn’t too hard to squeeze out, it’s probably the right consistency.

Detailed explanation-5: -Consistency, color and smell Your poop should have a mainly solid, not loose, consistency.