Ignoring this essential bodily function can lead to several complications that significantly affect your quality of life.

Fecal impaction vs. constipation Constipation is when you have bowel movements less often than expected, or they're hard, dry, or tough to pass. Long-term constipation can turn into fecal ...

Women are more comfortable discussing bowel movements than men, she says, but "everyone apologises for being graphic". This ...

A research team led by Junior Associate Professor Kazuo Takayama, from the Department of Cell Growth and Differentiation, ...

One such instance is straining during bowel movements. While it might seem like a minor issue, the consequences can be more significant than you think. Straining can lead to a variety of health ...

(Or, to be more graphic, the lack of something that rhymes with it happens.) Constipation, which involves changes in the ...

However, when cancer cells develop in the rectum, it can cause symptoms like changes in bowel movements, bloody poops, unintentional weight loss, fatigue, and anemia. Rectal cancer is often ...

“‘Normal’ bowel movements can be from as little as three times per week to three times a day,” says Alex Glover, a nutritionist from Holland & Barret. While big changes in bowel habits or ...

"Bowel movements go in cycles for many individuals, like it's part of their rhythm," Dr. Felice Schnoll-Sussman, a gastroenterologist at Weill Cornell Medicine, tells TODAY.com. And most of us ...

A woman who put her stomach ache down to the "anxiety" of her break-up was diagnosed with ovarian cancer - aged 19. Storm ...

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It is not unusual for her to go three to four days without a bowel movement. She has been told by two different doctors who she sees regularly (an endocrinologist and a colorectal surgeon) ...