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National Collaborating Centre for Women's and Children's Health (UK). Constipation in Children and Young People: Diagnosis and Management of Idiopathic Childhood Constipation in Primary and Secondary Care. London: RCOG Press; 2010. (NICE Clinical Guidelines, No. 99.)

  • Update information July 2017: The footnote in recommendation 4 was updated to link to the newest NICE guideline on coeliac disease. Footnotes in table 4 were corrected by NICE with manufacturer information that has changed since original publication.

Update information July 2017: The footnote in recommendation 4 was updated to link to the newest NICE guideline on coeliac disease. Footnotes in table 4 were corrected by NICE with manufacturer information that has changed since original publication.

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Constipation in Children and Young People: Diagnosis and Management of Idiopathic Childhood Constipation in Primary and Secondary Care.

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Appendix GBristol Stool Form Scale

Bristol Stool Form Scale

Type 1
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Separate hard lumps, like nuts (hard to pass)
Type 2
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Sausage-shaped but lumpy
Type 3
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Like a sausage but with cracks on its surface
Type 4
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Like a sausage or snake, smooth and soft
Type 5
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Soft blobs with clear-cut edges (passed easily)
Type6
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Fluffy pieces with ragged edges, a mushy stool
Type 7
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Watery, no solid pieces; entirely liquid

First published: Lewis SJ, Heaton KW (1997) Stool form scale as a useful guide to intestinal transit time. Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology 32: 920–4.

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