Understanding Your Bowels, Book Take the uterus. Women treasure the uterus as the place where #life begins. Mental pain and physical pain. Anxiety or #depression. People with physical pain are perceived as victims outside themselves and deserving sympathy, whereas people with mental complaints are perceived as weak and just need to pull themselves together. We treat stools dirty because they are smelly, sometimes appallingly so. And who has not been embarrased after passing wind in company. Diseases can be spread from people's stool to other people. Odor depends to some extent on what we eat. Rectum is Latin for straight and is straight during defecation, in other times it is bent backwards. We can only control the throat and anal canal. Mass peristalsis occurs at meal times, and need to go to loo after breakfast. Other times are when getting out of bed, drinking tea or coffe. Bacteria are responsible for the gass we pass from the rectum. Gasses have no oudor, odour comes from bacteria. Fruit and veg are low in fibre because the have water, the highest in fibre are seeds with seed coats intact. We eat and drink automatically or with pleasure. Constipation is more common in women than in men and it is worse in pregnancy and just before a period. If you strain too much you can push out the soft cushions of rectum so that they protrude from anus, this is what haemorrhoids are. Anything that makes a stool softer can be made a laxative. Diarhoea is from stool passing quickly or less commonly when colon is diseased. Take an anti diarhoea tablet loperamide. Keep up your fluid intake so that you do not get dehydrated. Water is absorbed best if it contains some sugar and salt. In women with IBS uterus may be sensitive and sexual intercourse painful. Toilet is nineteenth century invention of the water closet. Proctoscopy should be really called anoscopy. Bleeding from the anus is common but only rarely indicates a serious problem. Tears in the anal canal or haemorrhoids are the usual explanation. Websites may be biased, , out of date or just plain wrong. Constructive criticism how to improve