: Notation for toilet visits As I have sometimes diarrhea I want to start a habit of documentating my toilet visits every morning. I however don't know how to categories it. Are their notation systems or categorisation scheme

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The bristol chart is commonly used for describing the texture and consistency of stools. See chart and details below.

By Cabot Health, Bristol Stool Chart (http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs-wm/46082.pdf) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Quoting the wikipedia article linked above

The seven types of stool are:


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


Types 1 and 2 indicate constipation, with 3 and 4 being the ideal stools
(especially the latter), as they are easy to defecate while not
containing excess liquid, and 5, 6 and 7 tending towards diarrhoea.