Stool Analysis and Poo Chart

Your stools can tell a story and the quality, shape, size, texture and nature of your stools can be an important guide to your wellbeing. They can also indicate what you need to do to improve things.

TYPE 1 Separate hard lumps, like nuts. Harder to pass

TYPE 2 Sausage shape but lumpy

TYPE 3 Like a sausage but with cracks on the surface

TYPE 4 Like a sausage or snake, smooth and soft

Type 5 Soft blobs with clear cut edges which pass easily

TYPE 6 Fluffy pieces with ragged edges, a mushy stool

TYPE 7 Watery, no solid pieces. Entirely liquid