The idea that you should rush to a doctor if your poop smells different amuses me
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Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m not a poop or perm expert.
So, also not a poop expert, but I do know poop should smell like poop. If the smell of your dookies changes suddenly and doesn’t return back to normal in the time it takes to pass a few meals, you should probably go see a poop expert. AKA, your doctor.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
If it stays different. A bad meal can do some weird things to your toilet, but you should be back to normal pretty quick. If it stays different, something isn’t working the way it’s supposed to, so yeah that’s definitely a red flag.
The stuff that comes out of your body can tell you a lot about the parts inside.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I mean no doubt, the bar to visit a doctor for me is just higher than that. It would take a while for me to visit a doctor over a different smell. But I have the bar pretty high, admittedly.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah fair enough. I couldn’t even afford health insurance for the first couple years working as a civ surgical tech, so my emergency plan was basically ‘if I die I die’, so I definitely get it.
But do at least treat those kinds of changes as a contributing factor to consider along any other symptoms you notice. Sudden change in smell, color, consistency, frequency, etc - any one of them, keep an eye on it; all of them at once (and again, lasting longer than what just a bad meal would cause), something is definitely fucked up.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
Sadly, John McAfee has passed.