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Consistency of feces depends on:
a. Nature of diet
1. rancid food (diarrhea) - very soft and watery stool
2. High lipid diet ( steatorrhea) -foamy and mushy stool
3. thoroughly digested food - dry, hard fecal mass
4. constipation- excessively dry and hard fecal mass
5 Sprue- bulky and frothy stool
6. vegetarian diet- soft stool
b. amount of water or extent of water re absorption in the large intestine
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoa normal poo is brown chunky, not too soft and not too hard, it's just right!
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