my two and a half mon old daughter just pooped and when i felt the top of it it was mucousy or filmy and when i pulled my finger away it would tag along still holding to the poop with a string of gooey poop amost a brownish maroon or orangey harvest gold color the rest of the stool was dark green well formed still smells like dog feces... what do you mean or consider bulky stools just the quantity or is there more of a description?
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my two and a half mon old daughter just pooped and when i felt the top of it it was mucousy or filmy and when i pulled my finger away it would tag along still holding to the poop with a string of gooey poop amost a brownish maroon or orangey harvest gold color the rest of the stool was dark green well formed still smells like dog feces... what do you mean or consider bulky stools just the quantity or is there more of a description?
my two and a half mon old daughter just pooped and when i felt the top of it it was mucousy or filmy and when i pulled my finger away it would tag along still holding to the poop with a string of gooey poop amost a brownish maroon or orangey harvest gold color the rest of the stool was dark green well formed still smells like dog feces... what do you mean or consider bulky stools just the quantity or is there more of a description?
As far as bulky -- when DS was a baby it was more of a frequency issue. Sometimes I'd change his diaper 3 times during a diaper change. Or there'd be poop up going up his back, but that can be with any child.
Ds' was always fluffy like the consistency of cake frosting -- usually yellowish, sometimes orangish with dark green flecks. Sometimes darker green. Sometimes it looked like it was encased like a sausage -- in mucus, which usually happened if he'd been constipated.
I never noticed residual oil in the diaper, his was never shiny, but I have heard others describe oily sheen.
Ds' was always fluffy like the consistency of cake frosting -- usually yellowish, sometimes orangish with dark green flecks. Sometimes darker green. Sometimes it looked like it was encased like a sausage -- in mucus, which usually happened if he'd been constipated.
I never noticed residual oil in the diaper, his was never shiny, but I have heard others describe oily sheen.
As far as bulky -- when DS was a baby it was more of a frequency issue. Sometimes I'd change his diaper 3 times during a diaper change. Or there'd be poop up going up his back, but that can be with any child.
Ds' was always fluffy like the consistency of cake frosting -- usually yellowish, sometimes orangish with dark green flecks. Sometimes darker green. Sometimes it looked like it was encased like a sausage -- in mucus, which usually happened if he'd been constipated.
I never noticed residual oil in the diaper, his was never shiny, but I have heard others describe oily sheen.
Ds' was always fluffy like the consistency of cake frosting -- usually yellowish, sometimes orangish with dark green flecks. Sometimes darker green. Sometimes it looked like it was encased like a sausage -- in mucus, which usually happened if he'd been constipated.
I never noticed residual oil in the diaper, his was never shiny, but I have heard others describe oily sheen.
As far as bulky -- when DS was a baby it was more of a frequency issue. Sometimes I'd change his diaper 3 times during a diaper change. Or there'd be poop up going up his back, but that can be with any child.
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<br />Ds' was always fluffy like the consistency of cake frosting -- usually yellowish, sometimes orangish with dark green flecks. Sometimes darker green. Sometimes it looked like it was encased like a sausage -- in mucus, which usually happened if he'd been constipated.
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<br />I never noticed residual oil in the diaper, his was never shiny, but I have heard others describe oily sheen.
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<br />Ds' was always fluffy like the consistency of cake frosting -- usually yellowish, sometimes orangish with dark green flecks. Sometimes darker green. Sometimes it looked like it was encased like a sausage -- in mucus, which usually happened if he'd been constipated.
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<br />I never noticed residual oil in the diaper, his was never shiny, but I have heard others describe oily sheen.
Bulky is a word I use to describe amount of stool. I use words like loose, formed, greasy, slimy, watery etc to describe the consistency. Greasy and floating generally means she's not absorbing her food- and increasing her enzymes (or when she was dx'ed, starting enzymes) made a huge difference. We've only seen large quantities of slimy mucus and nasty green stuff with it when she's developed blockages, but that is her- green shows up for other cf kids. Things are less bulky, more formed, and float much less often now that she's on appropriate doses of enzymes.
Her poop PRIOR to dx was as a rule pretty soft; a typical bowel movement for her would be to come out a bright orange/light tan initially formed and then disintegrate into 'shreds' once it hit the water in the toilet (looked like cotton candy, sort of), appear shiny and greasy on the toilet paper when she wiped, and it would mostly float. And there would be a LOT of it. As in, more than you'd expect to see for an adult. Or not to sound too graphic- if her stool remained formed, there'd be multiple 'snakes' in the toilet all close to a foot long. All coming out of a 40 pound kid at once, every day.
Now post-dx, on enzymes, she still poops quite a bit, but much less, it sinks probably 2/3rds of the time, is more brown than yellow and is much less shiny looking. She still has some shiny looking poop on occasion- sometimes we've misjudged how much enzymes she should have, or it's a random thing, whatever. But for the most part it looks SO much more normal now.
When she is sick or on antibiotics is when we see watery, rather than greasy loose stool, like you'd see with any child. There is a distinct difference that I can see between watery and the greasy stuff.
Hope this helps... we need a poop gallery lol.
eta> it all still smells bad, lol. that is one thing that hasn't changed. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">
Her poop PRIOR to dx was as a rule pretty soft; a typical bowel movement for her would be to come out a bright orange/light tan initially formed and then disintegrate into 'shreds' once it hit the water in the toilet (looked like cotton candy, sort of), appear shiny and greasy on the toilet paper when she wiped, and it would mostly float. And there would be a LOT of it. As in, more than you'd expect to see for an adult. Or not to sound too graphic- if her stool remained formed, there'd be multiple 'snakes' in the toilet all close to a foot long. All coming out of a 40 pound kid at once, every day.
Now post-dx, on enzymes, she still poops quite a bit, but much less, it sinks probably 2/3rds of the time, is more brown than yellow and is much less shiny looking. She still has some shiny looking poop on occasion- sometimes we've misjudged how much enzymes she should have, or it's a random thing, whatever. But for the most part it looks SO much more normal now.
When she is sick or on antibiotics is when we see watery, rather than greasy loose stool, like you'd see with any child. There is a distinct difference that I can see between watery and the greasy stuff.
Hope this helps... we need a poop gallery lol.
eta> it all still smells bad, lol. that is one thing that hasn't changed. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">
Bulky is a word I use to describe amount of stool. I use words like loose, formed, greasy, slimy, watery etc to describe the consistency. Greasy and floating generally means she's not absorbing her food- and increasing her enzymes (or when she was dx'ed, starting enzymes) made a huge difference. We've only seen large quantities of slimy mucus and nasty green stuff with it when she's developed blockages, but that is her- green shows up for other cf kids. Things are less bulky, more formed, and float much less often now that she's on appropriate doses of enzymes.
Her poop PRIOR to dx was as a rule pretty soft; a typical bowel movement for her would be to come out a bright orange/light tan initially formed and then disintegrate into 'shreds' once it hit the water in the toilet (looked like cotton candy, sort of), appear shiny and greasy on the toilet paper when she wiped, and it would mostly float. And there would be a LOT of it. As in, more than you'd expect to see for an adult. Or not to sound too graphic- if her stool remained formed, there'd be multiple 'snakes' in the toilet all close to a foot long. All coming out of a 40 pound kid at once, every day.
Now post-dx, on enzymes, she still poops quite a bit, but much less, it sinks probably 2/3rds of the time, is more brown than yellow and is much less shiny looking. She still has some shiny looking poop on occasion- sometimes we've misjudged how much enzymes she should have, or it's a random thing, whatever. But for the most part it looks SO much more normal now.
When she is sick or on antibiotics is when we see watery, rather than greasy loose stool, like you'd see with any child. There is a distinct difference that I can see between watery and the greasy stuff.
Hope this helps... we need a poop gallery lol.
eta> it all still smells bad, lol. that is one thing that hasn't changed. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">
Her poop PRIOR to dx was as a rule pretty soft; a typical bowel movement for her would be to come out a bright orange/light tan initially formed and then disintegrate into 'shreds' once it hit the water in the toilet (looked like cotton candy, sort of), appear shiny and greasy on the toilet paper when she wiped, and it would mostly float. And there would be a LOT of it. As in, more than you'd expect to see for an adult. Or not to sound too graphic- if her stool remained formed, there'd be multiple 'snakes' in the toilet all close to a foot long. All coming out of a 40 pound kid at once, every day.
Now post-dx, on enzymes, she still poops quite a bit, but much less, it sinks probably 2/3rds of the time, is more brown than yellow and is much less shiny looking. She still has some shiny looking poop on occasion- sometimes we've misjudged how much enzymes she should have, or it's a random thing, whatever. But for the most part it looks SO much more normal now.
When she is sick or on antibiotics is when we see watery, rather than greasy loose stool, like you'd see with any child. There is a distinct difference that I can see between watery and the greasy stuff.
Hope this helps... we need a poop gallery lol.
eta> it all still smells bad, lol. that is one thing that hasn't changed. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">
Bulky is a word I use to describe amount of stool. I use words like loose, formed, greasy, slimy, watery etc to describe the consistency. Greasy and floating generally means she's not absorbing her food- and increasing her enzymes (or when she was dx'ed, starting enzymes) made a huge difference. We've only seen large quantities of slimy mucus and nasty green stuff with it when she's developed blockages, but that is her- green shows up for other cf kids. Things are less bulky, more formed, and float much less often now that she's on appropriate doses of enzymes.
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<br />Her poop PRIOR to dx was as a rule pretty soft; a typical bowel movement for her would be to come out a bright orange/light tan initially formed and then disintegrate into 'shreds' once it hit the water in the toilet (looked like cotton candy, sort of), appear shiny and greasy on the toilet paper when she wiped, and it would mostly float. And there would be a LOT of it. As in, more than you'd expect to see for an adult. Or not to sound too graphic- if her stool remained formed, there'd be multiple 'snakes' in the toilet all close to a foot long. All coming out of a 40 pound kid at once, every day.
<br />
<br />Now post-dx, on enzymes, she still poops quite a bit, but much less, it sinks probably 2/3rds of the time, is more brown than yellow and is much less shiny looking. She still has some shiny looking poop on occasion- sometimes we've misjudged how much enzymes she should have, or it's a random thing, whatever. But for the most part it looks SO much more normal now.
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<br />When she is sick or on antibiotics is when we see watery, rather than greasy loose stool, like you'd see with any child. There is a distinct difference that I can see between watery and the greasy stuff.
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<br />Hope this helps... we need a poop gallery lol.
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<br />eta> it all still smells bad, lol. that is one thing that hasn't changed. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">
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<br />Her poop PRIOR to dx was as a rule pretty soft; a typical bowel movement for her would be to come out a bright orange/light tan initially formed and then disintegrate into 'shreds' once it hit the water in the toilet (looked like cotton candy, sort of), appear shiny and greasy on the toilet paper when she wiped, and it would mostly float. And there would be a LOT of it. As in, more than you'd expect to see for an adult. Or not to sound too graphic- if her stool remained formed, there'd be multiple 'snakes' in the toilet all close to a foot long. All coming out of a 40 pound kid at once, every day.
<br />
<br />Now post-dx, on enzymes, she still poops quite a bit, but much less, it sinks probably 2/3rds of the time, is more brown than yellow and is much less shiny looking. She still has some shiny looking poop on occasion- sometimes we've misjudged how much enzymes she should have, or it's a random thing, whatever. But for the most part it looks SO much more normal now.
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<br />When she is sick or on antibiotics is when we see watery, rather than greasy loose stool, like you'd see with any child. There is a distinct difference that I can see between watery and the greasy stuff.
<br />
<br />Hope this helps... we need a poop gallery lol.
<br />
<br />eta> it all still smells bad, lol. that is one thing that hasn't changed. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">