If you notice blood in the toilet bowl or on your toilet paper after a bowel movement, you’re likely to be concerned. There are many reasons your stool could contain blood, and while most causes are ...

Seeing bright red blood in your stool can be alarming, but it is highly common. What’s more, it’s usually not a sign of a serious problem. That doesn’t mean you can or should ignore rectal bleeding.

Dr. Terry Simpson, a board-certified general surgeon based in California, is sharing the stool symptom that’s cause for serious concern. “There is one condition where you should go to the emergency ...

Physicians have cautioned Nigerians against dismissing the sight of blood in stool as a minor or temporary issue, warning that it could be an early sign of serious gastrointestinal ...

If you have ulcerative colitis, you might see blood and mucus in your poop when you have a flare-up. It shows up most often in very loose, watery stools. This bloody diarrhea tends to happen with ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Poop irregularities may be more “regular” than you ...

Paula Chambers Raney suffered abdominal pain, weight loss, and bloody stool for more than a year. Doctors told her it was her diet, acid reflux, a stomach bug, or even something red she ate. She was ...

Dear Dr. Roach • My 8-year-old grandson has had bright-red blood in his stool many times in the past four to six months. The doctor initially said he was dehydrated and needed to drink more water.

Sometimes inflammatory bowel disease doesn’t show up in blood and stool tests, can happen without fever and fatigue ...