Joy Emeh is a professional health writer, editor, content strategist, and career development coach with up to four years of experience in the health writing space. She is interested in all things ...

Digital removal of stool, also called digital disimpaction or manual elimination, involves using your fingers to manually remove stool from your rectum when other constipation relief methods don’t ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

About four years ago, Stephanie Servetas, a microbiologist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and her colleagues set out on a unique quest: They planned to mail a poop ...

Your poop is a surprisingly useful health indicator. Changes in the texture, smell, and color of your stool can mean many different things. If your stool is suddenly greener than usual, you’re ...

Fecal impaction refers to a mass of hardened stools in the colon or rectum. This obstruction can make it extremely difficult for a person to pass stools and may cause symptoms such as abdominal ...