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Table 1 Bristol stool chart [14]

From: Treatment of Clostridium difficile infection in community teaching hospital: a retrospective study

Type 1

Separate hard lumps, like nuts (hard to pass)

Type 2

Sausage-shaped but lumpy

Type 3

Like a sausage but with cracks on its surface

Type 4

Like a sausage or snake, smooth and soft

Type 5

Soft blobs with clear-cuts edges (passed easily)

Type 6

Fluffy pieces with ragged edges, a mushy stool

Type 7

Watery, no solid pieces, entirely liquid

  1. Classification of stools from types 1 to 7 based on appearance and characteristics