The Link Between Smoking and Pooping: Truth or Imagination?
How does smoking affect bowel movements? In more ways than you could imagine. Though smoking does not cause diarrhea or constipation, it does have other effects on your poop. […]
Yellow Foamy Loose Stools: Causes Include Cancer
But it’s not colon cancer that can make bowel movements yellow and foamy looking. It’s another kind – one with a 5 year survival rate of only 19 percent. […]
How Long It Takes Colon Cancer to Go from Stage 1 to 4
Stage 1 colon cancer has a very good prognosis, and stage 4 is pretty much a death sentence. How long does it take to go from stage 1 to stage 4? “The process of advancing [...]
Miralax Does NOT Cause Thin Stools; Colon Cancer Can
Don’t get your hopes up that your newly narrow stools are a side effect of Miralax. “The mechanism of action for Miralax causes water retention in stool, producing a laxative effect,” explains Franjo Vladic, MD, [...]
Flat Ribbon Stool Causes other than Colon Cancer
Are your stools coming out like flat ribbons and scaring the daylights out of you? If so, you’ve no doubt read or heard that colon cancer can cause BMs to come out in the shape [...]
Pencil Stools Return to Normal: Can Still Be Colon Cancer?
If colon cancer is causing your stools to be pencil thin, this doesn’t mean that the stools cannot return to normal. So if you’ve been noticing pencil thin stools and fearing colon cancer, do NOT [...]
Thick Stools Suddenly Get Thin: Colon Cancer?
So many people are scared of seeing the so-called pencil-thin stools—even if the day before, their bowel movements were thick or fat. “The reason that a stool changes from wide and then thin can be [...]
How Does Colon Cancer Cause Thin Ribbon Stools?
Stools that come out like toothpaste from a tube or ribbon-like or thin like pencils can indicate colon cancer. “If you have an anal or low rectal cancer tumor, your stools might be smaller than [...]
Can IBS Cause Ribbon Stools?
You’ve heard that colon cancer can cause ribbon stools, but IBS can also do this. “Ribbon stools are not uncommonly seen with IBS, although excluding other causes, such as anatomic problems, inflammatory disease, etc., would [...]
Does IBS Usually Cause Thin Narrow Poops?
Do narrow stools have you fearful of colon cancer, even though you've been diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)? If narrow or thin stools are common with IBS, then this may certainly provide more peace [...]
Causes of Thin Narrow Stools Besides Colon Cancer
If your thin or narrow stools have you fearing colon cancer, there are other causes of narrow thin stools besides cancer of the colon. A number of factors can determine bowel movement caliber (shape, texture, color, [...]
