constipation and excess mucus in stools?
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You need to go to the doctor.  Mucous in stool is not normal, and can be a symptom of parasites (like tapeworms) and other intestinal problems.
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Please talk to your parents about this, it could be something so simple as dye in something you ingested but read below and click on the website to learn more and then talk to your parents.\n\nBlood in the stool may not always be serious, but it should always be checked by a physician. Any change in bowel habits, such as color, odor, frequency, or consistency (constipation or diarrhea) that does not clear up within a few days is reason to make an appointment with a family practitioner or a gastroenterologst.\nCauses of Red or Black Colored Stools.
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Look at some of these causes and see if you need to change something among them\nCommon Causes of Constipation \n\n* Lack of water\n\n* Lack of fiber and poor diet\n\n* Disturbance of the balance of the gut bacteria\n\n* Lack of exercise or prolonged bed rest\n\n* Tension in the muscles of the colon, rectum an anus\n\n* Eating too much of concentrated protein\n\n* The effect of some drugs; take special note of any drugs or supplements you  have not taken before.\n\n* Putting off going to the lavatory \n\n* Pelvic congestion due to weak abdominal muscles or pre-menstrual tension. \n\n\nProper DIET\nDietary measures such as increasing fiber intake from whole-wheat grains, fresh fruits, vegetables and bran may help add bulk to the stool, thus promoting normal bowel movements. Special efforts should be made toward increasing the daily intake of fluids.  \n\nEXERCISE\n\nExercise is important to strengthen the abdominal muscles and to help with the digestion process.  Movement, particularly waist and leg movement help to mix the food and waste products in your intestines which aides digestion.  Massage may also be helpful. \n\nTips TO Avoid Constipation\n\n* Eat a well-balanced diet that includes whole grains, fresh fruits, bran and vegetables.\n\n* Drink plenty of clean pure water (keep fluids containing sugar and/or caffeine to a minimum)\n\n* Exercise, stretch and move.\n\n*Don't ignore the urge to go.\n\n* Take the time to go.\n\n* Take time to relax and reduce stress.\n\nFurther Information\n\nConstipation can be complex and have multiple contributing factors aggravating  the condition.  Take the  time and seize the opportunity to be educated.  Take charge, improve your health and improve the quality of your life.  When you have a clean, smooth running bowel, you will be amazed at your feeling of well-being and your new found energy.
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could be any of multiple things: crohn's disease, irritable bowel syndrome, H pylori infection. the mucus in the stool could suggest colon cancer (scary) or bowel obstruction (also scary). you really need to have this checked out, possibly including a colonoscopy.
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constipation\n\nclean your colon out first, then look for other reasons.
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Well, it depends on what you mean by "irregular."  If you are constipated, you need to eat more fiber in your diet.  If you have diarrhea, it could mean lots of things, from an infection to eatting too much dried fruit
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constipation is caused by a lack of fiber, water, or exercise. I suggest you do all three.
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This is actually a fair question.  First, 'poop' is brown because it is a mixture of green and rusty red.  The red comes from retired blood cells that are being excreted.  The greenish yellow is from bile, a substance present in your digestive system.  When there is significantly more bile than retired blood, the poo is more green (this is my many babies have green poo, their bodies aren't old enough to have retired enought red blood cells).  Bile 'overload' is somewhat rare, but is not a health issue.  If you experience abdominal cramping, dark/black stool or stool that is very thin (perhaps no thicker than a pencil) these can signs of very serious medical problems.  But for now, you're probably fine. Regards :)
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Constipation, make sure the drink has plenty of fiber in it.
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It sounds like you have a digestive problem. Stools floating hasa nothing to do with my experience of cancer patients. (I had two in my immediate family). If you have had this bloating and nausea for more than a week, I would suggest you see a physician.
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Constipation?\nYou may want to urgently get more fiber in your diet, eating spelt flour pancakes often, cut them into noodles for soups, fill them with jam or vegetables, fruit or left overs. Chew well.\n\nWhite flour items may make you constipated. Avoid.\n\nMore fiber also makes necessary to drink more. Purified water, green tea, herbal teas.\n\nConstipation has been helped often in one session by Color*MedicineTM, Dinshah color Yellow! Also Natrum Sulphuricum, a homeopathic Tissue Salt.\n\nBloating? Dinshah color Orange and/or Magnesium Phosphoricum (Tissue Salt, health food store).\n\nVegetables have a lot of fiber, too, so have fruit. Lentils, beans, too, and prunes. Eat some daily.\n\nLess fiber: meat and animal products in general. Reduce or eat with fiber foods only.\n\nYou may also want to get some enzymes to help digestion.\n\nRobert Gray composed a colon bacteria food, for the bacteria to help digest our food and make Vitamin B12 for us. You may ask in your health food store, brand something with horizon. Tastes great with Avocados.\n\nSpeedy recovery and staying "current."\nCordially, India.Magica
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This is from the Colonic Association website:\n"Well, waste material, especially that which has remained in the colon for some time, (i.e. impacted faeces, dead cellular tissue, accumulated mucous, parasites, worms, etc.), poses several problems. First this material is quite toxic (poisonous). These poisons can re-enter and circulate in the blood stream making us feel ill, tired or weak. Second, impacted materials impair the colon's ability to assimilate minerals and bacteria- produced vitamins. And finally, a buildup of material on the colon wall can inhibit muscular action causing sluggish bowel movements, constipation, and the result of these disorders."\nI have had many and I always feel better afterward.  Friends of mine have had dramatic weight loss (12 lbs in one case); that hasn't happened to me, but my waist did get smaller & my clothes looser.
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If your constipation is a temporary condition, I would suggest drinking 6 glasses of water today. Drink one glass with a tablespoon of sea salt and follow it up with a glass of straight water in the morning, afternoon, and evening. This will rehydrarte and remineralize your body. You can wash down the salty water with fresh water until you get used to the taste. Avoid any dairy products, white bread, sugary beverages, and red meat today. Pick up some prune juice and raw apple cider vinegar if constipation persists. Continue drinking the salt water and take a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar plus cinnamon for taste in prune juice the next morning, afternoon, and evening.\n\n\nFor chronic constipation, you should continue fasting from using dairy of any kind, white bread, sugary beverages, and red meat, continue hydrating your system with unrefined seas salt and water three times a day, and continue taking raw apple cider vinegar and cinnamon for two weeks.\n\nIf you do not have regular bowel movements after two weeks, continue fasting from using dairy of any kind, white bread, sugary beverages, and red meat, then add a tablespoon of olive oil, a drop of oregano oil, and add two tablespoons of cinnamon to a shot of prune juice and drink it three times a day for two weeks while you continue with the salt water and apple cider vinegar.\n\nIf your body is not in perfect functioning order after two weeks with a changed diet, olive oil and oregano oil, salt water, and apple cider vinegar, I would suggest a colonic using a coffee enema from a colonic specialist. \n\nAt this point you should be the most healthy you have been in your whole life. Your urine should be nearly clear, you should have regular bowel movements, and your body would be in optimal good health. Start adding walnuts and almonds to your diet. Begin juicing carrots, and fruits, and veggies and eat or juice half of of your food raw. You will never regret it.\n\nIf it is just constipation, a little sea salt and water in the morning, afternoon, and evening could fix your body but drugs are not the answer. Drugs by their definition must kill a rat or the FDA will not sanction any drug as a "drug." Otherwise it is called "food." Let your food heal your body. All health conditions come from a lack of minerals. Your body does not have a lack of rat poison. Don't take rat poison to mask symptoms when you could remineralize your body with sea salt and water, apple cider vinegar, and cinnamon plus eating a healthy diet by avoiding  toxic vaccinated, steroid pumped up red meat, dairy, \nand chemically toxic processed food.  It is all up to you how far you will take it but the journey is worth the effort.\n\nYah Bless\nhttp://curezone.com/blogs/f.asp?f=179
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Usually you are constipated from not eating enough fibre and DRINKING AT LEAST 2 litres of water a day...\nMy suggestion would be exercise via walking etc, eat Oranges/Apples/Bananas as they stimulate the bowels together with WATER as mentioned most important as this bulks the stools and lubricates the bowels...\nThen make sure you eat vegetables daily together with fruit, grainy breads if possible stay way from processed foods opting for fresh home cooked meals\nBelieve me when your bowels are ready you will go  a couple times....other wise  natural concentrated fruit laxatives are available over the counter...\nColoxyl & Henna is also good laxative
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First off, if this is a serious question, it's good to check out your 'poo' once in awhile to see how your health is going beyond what you feel.  You can tell alot of what's going on by doing so.  Not pretty, but very telling. Digestion(pieces of food, color), stress(diarrhea or scant), infection or wounds/ulcer(blood) lack of moisture(none at all...or little) etc...Most people are freaked about this but shouldn't be. It's only scientific to understand how our bodies are working, or not!\nBased on Michael Murray's Encyclo. of Nat. Medicine pg. 133, it says "the presence of mucus or pus can be an indication of irritable bowel syndrome, intestinal wall inflammation  (caused by infection such as typhoid, shigella, or amoebas(parasites), diverticulitis or other intestinal abcesses. "\n\nIn other words, go see a GI, gastrointerologist if you continue to have this symptom or others and do not get better.  Ask them to fully check you out and start tracking all your other symptoms and when they happen and what causes them, ie. food that cause reactions. It could be a reaction to a particular type of food.  Meat, dairy, wheat...?\n\nI am studying to be a nutritionist that is why I looked this up. \n\nGood luck.
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no not really:( they both suck! and the symptoms are so much alike that unless you have you stool/blood tested their is no way to tell. keep hydrated! and good luck:)
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Try mixing your diet and bowel movements toghter.\n\nTry upping your fibre content in your diet, you could eat prunes, dates of figs, and then you have a healthy snack.\n\nALSO try upping your water intake, if your stools are moister then your body may find it easier to exit them.\n\nIf all else fails, as you have tried senokot go to your doctor, as you COULD have a bowel problem.