Bowel Book
Coming soon to iPhone

Keep a record of what goes in and what comes out.

Bowel Book is a simple app for tracking bowel movements, symptoms and food. Everything goes in one daily log, so you can look back instead of trying to remember.

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Tuesday
Sample page
  1. FoodOatmeal, banana, coffee
  2. Bowel movementType 4, no straining
  3. FoodLentil soup, rye toast
  4. SymptomBloating, mild
  5. FoodChicken, rice, green beans
  6. Bowel movementType 5, urgent

Bowels

Log when you went and what it was like, using the same scale you may see at the doctor's office.

Symptoms

Note bloating, cramps, urgency or anything else, along with how strong it was and when it started.

Food

Write down meals and snacks as they happen, so they sit next to everything else from that day.

Seven types, one shared vocabulary

The Bristol Stool Scale is a chart widely used in clinics to describe stool. It replaces "kind of normal, I guess" with a number you and your doctor both understand.

  1. Type 1Separate hard lumps
  2. Type 2Lumpy, sausage-shaped
  3. Type 3Sausage with surface cracks
  4. Type 4Smooth, soft sausage
  5. Type 5Soft blobs with clear edges
  6. Type 6Mushy, with ragged edges
  7. Type 7Watery, no solid pieces