TMI alert - what makes poo float?

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Am sick of finding dh's logs afloat. What does he need to eat/not eat to stop this happening?

Fat I think.

I think it's actually a good sign?

Apparently its too much fat in the diet - fat floats so it makes the poo float......what a lovely topic by the way! [grins]

Nice

Is it more fibre. I could be wrong.

definatley fat, it can be too much in the diet or as with my dd an intolerence to it.

He gave up bread to try to make a difference. But no luck. Gross, I know, but I knew mumsnetters could help
Maybe more fibre will help, might suggest bran flakes

A rubber ring?

it's fat. fibre makes them sink

fat

Sign him up for You Are What you Eat and see what Gillian grades his poo as???!!!

I was told that a floating poo is a healthy one

ROFL at rubber ring. Ok, fat reduction mission on. Mind you, I trough loads more fat than him and my poos are perfect [smug poo face]

not so healthy for your social life when friends spot your hubby's stinking logs...

ok big contradition here -some say fat = floaters, others say fibre = floaters. Shall I just ditch him and find non floaty (and richer and better looking while I'm at it) hubby instead?

You could try googling it and see if could get some medical info....but I really dread to think what it would bring up....apparently there are people out there who get off on watching people crap so I'm sure there are web sites dedicated to it!!

They did a whole feature on this once on Braniac - Jon Tickle ate a load of food that floats, to see if that made his poo float, and then vice versa - results inconclusive, I seem to remember

tee hee at Jon Tickle's poo

They are definitely meant to float. Not floating is Bad.

I have recently become (again) totally veggie and avoided fat and salt etc - and by God, I have been shittin battle ships, at LEAST twice a day. We are talking shits of 20cm length and at least 10cm girth, AT LEAST twice daily. You don't know you're born, you lot.

Colour - tawny, generally, with the occasional hint of russet. Yellow/black flecks, natch.

aha here we have it...
floatypoo

Makes sense, he is really farty too

Well, someone had to find a link

Healthy stools should float.

If they sink you don't have enough fibre in your diet.

If they don't flush you have too much fat in the diet - which is what I am assuming we are talking about here.

alll you need to know about healthy pooh

Oh and for anyone interested there is a Bristol Scale for stool forms...warning - bit bizzare!!!

I wish i was quicker at googling and linking - there were only 3 posts when I started to write that...