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  • Black stool—melaena (blood)

  • Bright red—bleeding from rectum or left colon

  • China clay—obstructive jaundice

  • Pale, bulky, offensive—steatorrhoea (malabsorption)

  • Pea soup—typhoid fever

  • Rabbit pellets—irritable bowel syndrome

  • Red current jelly—intussusception

  • Rice water—cholera

  • Silver stool—carcinoma ampulla of vater

  • Toothpaste—Hirschprung disease

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