Yes, poop stinks — but food intolerances, excess sulfur in your diet, and difficulty absorbing nutrients can give your poop a truly unpleasant odor.

Gastroenteritis is an intestinal infection that causes symptoms like diarrhea, cramping, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and fever. Viruses, bacteria, and parasites can cause gastroenteritis. A ...

The best foods to eat for diarrhea are crackers, soup, and anything easy on the stomach. Avoid spicy, sugary, or greasy foods ...

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 ...

Paradoxical diarrhea happens when loose, watery stool finds a way around hardened, impacted stool in your colon and leaks from your anus. Also called overflow diarrhea, it’s often a symptom of a type ...

Many babies have blood in their stool during infancy. Small anal fissures and other minor conditions may cause blood streaks in a baby’s stool. Black stools or severe bloody diarrhea may indicate a ...

Mail-in stool kits such as Colorguard can detect warning signs, but gastroenterologists say a colonoscopy is still the most reliable way to prevent colon cancer.