Changes to your bowel habits could happen for a number of reasons, but sometimes the appearance of the stool could indicate an underlying health condition.
Bowel cancer is treatable and curable if it is diagnosed at an early stage, but this drops significantly as the disease develops, warns Bowel Cancer UK.
Symptoms include blood in your stools, abdominal pain and more frequent, looser stools. But one gut expert has warned that 'porridge poo' could also signal cancer, as well as five other conditions.
Gemma Stuart from Gut Wealth explained how a stool that looks like “mushy lumps of porridge with soft, ragged edges” could be the first sign of diarrhoea - or a red flag of something more serious, reports the Mirror. READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community She said: “[These could be] food intolerances, allergy to medications, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), possibly a persistent infection, or inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
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