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why does poop smell?

Posted 02.16.2004 by Poonurse (1313)
Poopy Pants asks:

Why is poop so stinky? I mean... food doesnt smell like that, so why does poop? Also, why do some people's poop smell worse than others?

(((Poonurse: I thought about answering this question that it was due to bacteria in your stomach. And then I thought that when you are first born, you don't have that bacteria, which is why babies poop doesn't smell. And then I remembered that baby poop is just horrible. Do you have any insight?)))
---- Dave


Dear Poopy Pants,

You are right on about the bacteria. The bacteria inside of the feces is what makes them smell so bad. Specifically, the bacteria produce various compounds and gases that lead to the infamous smell of feces. Just in case you were wondering, you can get very sick by eating feces because it contains so many types of bacteria and other harmful substances such as parasites. So I wouldn't suggest adding poop to your diet any time soon.

Poop will vary in smell depending on the type of foods and drinks that you consume. Generally speaking, feces will smell worse if you consume foods or liquids with many artificial flavors or chemicals in them. The bad smell of feces will usually be reduced by eating more natural foods that do not contain any artificial flavors or chemicals. Also, the poop of meat eaters usually smells worse than that of vegans.

Incidently, I change about 10,000 diapers a day at work. The baby's first poop is called meconium. While tarry, black, sticky and yucky to look at, it does NOT STINK.

Please be advised that I am only a Poonurse. I am NOT a medical doctor. Any advice I give should be taken moderate skepticism. Please consult a REAL medical doctor if you feel you have a serious medical condition.

-- Poonurse

Poonurse is an RN with 25 years experience in labor and delivery. Her qualifications include seeing a lot of poop, and owning a computer. Also, she works in Michigan, which she calls the asshole of the universe, so that's another bit of credibility. Got a question for her?

Turd Hugegrunt (not verified) -- 03.16.2004

Poopy Pants:

You wonder that poop stinks when you say that "food doesn't smell like that."

Have you ever walked into a house where someone is boiling a big pot of turnip greens or mustard greens? Especially if they are boiling up some of the turnip roots with the greens?

Or how about boiled cabbage, cauliflower, or broccoli?

Ever smelled chitterlings (chitlins) stewing away atop a stove?

And then you wonder how come some folks' poop smells worse than others. Hey, why do some folks' homes smell worse than others? How come some folks' armpits smell worse than others?

Look, some folks are just plain stankier than other folks. And it usually has at least something to do with what they shove down their gullets. Like some people who eat a lotta garlic. Or some folks who drink a lotta alcohol. It comes outta their skin, and outta their asses, more stinky than say someone who eats nothing but white bread and peanut butter washed down with Mt. Dew Code Red.

Anyway, do a little experiment. Cook up a big pot of chitlins, another pot of turnip greens, with the root diced up, and some blackeyed peas and cornbread. If you can stand the smell of your house, sit down and eat copious amounts of this slop.

Now, go down to Mississippi next day, meet up with Big Wiper in a public restroom, have a good ol' shameless twin shittin' sittin', and compare the odor. I'll bet your poop smells a whole lot worse than his. That's because he eats a more reasonable diet of not so stanky foods, see?

Peace in the portal.

doniker (1491) -- 03.16.2004

Turd, your one hilarious mother !!!!

Turd Hugegrunt (not verified) -- 03.16.2004

Thanks, Doniker.

By the way, did you check out Ms. Tina's ass pimple problem? Sounds like she could use some help if you're up her way, Don. After all, you have a lot of experience in the female hiney department.

But if it gets too gross ... oh, nevermind ... that's not a possibility with you, dude!

Anyway, when you get to pinchin' Tina's butt bumpies, squeeze a big, yellow puss pocket for me, Don. If she yelps, say, "That was for Turd Hugegrunt!" and keep on a squeezin'.

Peace on the Pimple Patch.

doniker (1491) -- 03.16.2004

to be honest, I used to bang this chick that had pimples all over her ass cheeks.
She wasn't a fat slob, either.
For the first few months she would only fuck me if I got on top and in a dark room.

One time we were out in the woods during the day. We were drinking and I did her doggie style and her ass was covered in zits and zit scars.
Naturally I still fucked her and did so for about a year after that.

Turd Hugegrunt (not verified) -- 03.16.2004

Doniker:

Well, I would imagine that the scabs and the healed-over pock marks afforded you some traction to get a grip on those ass cheeks, huh?

Peace in the pocked pucker.

The Big Wiper (2234) -- 03.16.2004

TH, you continue to be in rare form, my friend! With all the travelling I'm doing lately, it's great to check into the site and see what you've come up with at the end of the day. Too cool for school

Turd Hugegrunt (not verified) -- 03.16.2004

B'Dub:

I hope your travels find you safe and warm this winter. I know how cold some of those roadhouse toilets can be! Please avoid the dreaded frost-bit tush.

And seems like we should be hearing lots of public poophouse anecdotes when you finally get some time to relate them to us. I've seen a few from you lately, but I know you've experienced way more than what you've told us so far.

Like, is Arkansas still studded with those nostalgic two-seater outhouses like when I was a kid down South? Had any emergency downloads where you had to pull off the road in a rush and spackle paint the potty after dining on mudbugs and jambalaya in one of those Cajun roadside crab houses?

So, anyway, stay safe on the road, and have a speedy and profitable return to Tupelo.

Peace at the Crossroad.

The Big Wiper (2234) -- 03.16.2004

Haha! TH, my most recent poophouse anecdote of note was posted in my 'On The Throne, On The Phone' story on the Front Page earlier this week. Cell phone crapping at its best and a shameless shiftfest to boot. I think my willingness to use (clean) facilities and my general shamelessness put me in a position to experience these excretory episodes more than most.

As for the mudbugs, they are coming into season right about now and are mighty tasty in etouffe and other dishes in restaurants in South Louisiana and Mississippi. Had some served as a topping over snapper (please--no comments about our esteemed Canadian Pooper Friend!) at a national sales meeting weekend before last. It was to die for and made for a fantastic easy slider at the other end. So, no complaints about the effect of the spicey cuisine on the ole bowels down there. I've learned to handle it after all these years.

Keep those crazy cards and letters of yours coming, TH. You da man!

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chimmy chonga (not verified) -- 05.13.2004

your poop stuff is realy sick why do you even have this web site????? huh????

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Creepy internet stalker (not verified) -- 05.27.2004

Courtney and Angelina -- thank you for posting your phone number. Now I can figure out where you live. I'll probably be stopping by this weekend....

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Angelina (not verified) -- 06.10.2004

hello buthoe! how are you?
sexy momma?

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fglkfgrtf (not verified) -- 06.10.2004

c'lnfgfgjfghxfjx

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dookie dog (not verified) -- 06.12.2004

Oh man! thank God for this site I'd be calling 911 everytime I cut a fart holymolly man I am a hypocrandic of the worse kind man, I really am.

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k'in weird (not verified) -- 06.28.2004

you are all very weird, very very weird, insane tiwsted weirdos, this awful english is due to the total astonishment I feel at finding such a bunch of weridos...

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Bloated Elvis (not verified) -- 06.30.2004

Dang man...there is nothing the king likes better than to see a hot honey pinching a big Tennessee loaf! Thank you, thank you very much.

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Keeley (not verified) -- 07.12.2004

Hey the stalker came to my house! I am OK
he said that becuase he thought it was wrong to
start making a caht room out of a poop box!
ha-ha-ha! I started luaghing, then he left.

The Shit Volcano (3537) -- 08.03.2004

Wha?

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JESSICAAPONTE (not verified) -- 09.28.2004

I THINK THAT IS COOL. I MEAN IM A GIRL BUT USUALLY GIRLS WOULD SAY EEWW THATS DISGUSTING BUT IM A TOMBOY SO I DONT CARE

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who cares (not verified) -- 10.27.2004

so wut if ur a tom-boy, not gonna do anything!

John (74) -- 12.02.2004

Well, When I take a dump the whole house smells like ass. It blows out with a furious force, like compressed gas. Braaaaappp! There is like this huge explosion in the toilet with brown dropplets on the sides of the inside of the toilet bowl. What does this mean?

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Jay (not verified) -- 09.10.2005

Everyone's ass smells,even if we do not defecate.My Cousins used to fart and then smell each other's asses.I don't smell people's asses!.

Íslenska Inga (not verified) -- 10.13.2005

Krummi krunkar úti, kallar á nafna sinn;
"Ég fann höfuð af hrúti, hrygg og gæruskinn"
Komdu nú og kroppaðu með mér krummi nafni minn.
Komdu nú og kroppaðu með mér krummi nafni minn.

That was an Icelandic poopsong witch I wanted to share with you:)

Flush with pride.

The Shit Volcano (3537) -- 10.25.2005

Translation? Please!

HersheySquirt (not verified) -- 07.10.2006

Why does some poop sink to the bottom of the bowl and some float to the top?

The Big Wiper (2234) -- 07.10.2006

Density and fiber content. Fatty, greasy foods create poop that doesn't really hold together and floats. High fiber foods such as veggies and whole grains create a denser log.

Some of the classic easy sliders I've had that slithered nicely to the bottom had, for instance, such foods as red beans and rice, broccoli and sourdough bread at the front end.

The Dumpster (2507) -- 07.10.2006

This site is much better moderated than it was two years ago.

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Send all your money to Bilgepump, or to Dave!

brown snake playing peek a boo with my butthole (not verified) -- 10.03.2006

i love the poopie. is it possible to pop blood vessles from straining so much?

Fart Poopie (1256) -- 10.03.2006

It's likely you will get hemorrhoids, yes.

healthy 1 (1422) -- 10.04.2006

Very educational thread. First, I have learned that there are indeed some weirdo's who vist PR. PR is not a porn site, we are a "poop humor" site. (We also give some pretty damn advice, along with helping the public overcome the fear of poop and pooping.) We at PR give (or try to give) a better understanding to the public, that pooping is not dirty, it is natural. All mammals poop.

Second. I have learned that people do have a false belief that poop and pooping is bad. Why? It is totally natural, there is nothing wrong with pooping. It is what our creator intended, so there must be a reason.

Third. I think FP has mad some awesome comments in this thread. A healthy diet will indeed create denser poop (sometimes too dense for the toilet to handle.)

Lastly. Now to put a twist on this question. Why does some people's poop not smell when it is submerged in the water?
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Jammin' lo'flo's since 1977.

bowlfiller (54) -- 10.04.2006

Are we Born with the disgust for poop/smell of poop already buried in our genetics, or is it somthing that we learn?

Stool Pigeon (not verified) -- 10.15.2006

After reading this horizon broadening site, I feel the need to make a correction. Feces floats when it has more fiber. If you eat things that are dense like meat and cheese without fiber, those are the stools that tend to sink like the titanic. Sorry to ruin your thoughts about eating greasy foods. The greasy foods can cause stomach and intestinal problems and can cause your gall bladder to go into overdrive. That is why cancer specialists suggest eating high fiber diets to keep your intestines clean. The grease also likes to line your veins and arteries until it chokes out your blood flow. To good poop & health.

GottaGoGirl (2616) -- 10.16.2006

I dunno. All I ate today was pancakes, beef jerky, coffee, and chile-spiced peanuts. Oh. And an ice-cream cone.

I just filled the bowl with floaters. How do you explain that?

Anonymous Coward (not verified) -- 10.16.2006

GGG - Magic.

GottaGoGirl (2616) -- 10.16.2006

Oh. Well. That explains it, then.

BTW, I ate that diet that day because we were driving home from Nevada. The Cajon Pass was jammed, and all we had in the car was jerky and those spicy nuts.

When we finally got through, and back to some semblance of civilization, we celebrated with ice cream.

BTW/BTW, I left a deposit at the Stardust, which will only be open for 2 more weeks. Connection? Perhaps.

Blackhorse15_4eva (not verified) -- 02.01.2007

why do babies have such smelly and vile bowel movements? its not like they ingest a whole lot of processed and artificial foods..perhaps its the milk?XP

GottaGoGirl (2616) -- 02.01.2007

Blackhorse- I theorize that babies' poop (once they're weaned) smells/looks equally vile as adult poop. If you had to clean smeared crap off of an adult butt, I bet the baby butt would seem far less gross.

Droppin' Da Kids at da Pool (not verified) -- 02.19.2007

Hey - my ol' lady is fibre crazy - can't get enough - and her turds are always hangin' in the bowl - somedays I hafta piss-break them two or three times before they'll head off to New Jersey.

Me, well, I eat a balanced diet, get 5 servings of fruit/veg a day, some meat, some dairy, and, well, let me just say that when I drop the kids off at the pool, they go scuba diving. Not snorklers like the missus.

Do the Poo!

Anonymous blondie (not verified) -- 02.20.2007

I have a question, I and a friend of mine where sitting around drinking coffee and I said" my shirt smells like ass!" and she said to me "What does ass smell like?" I told her that ass smells like when someone farts or that smell when you walk into a public bathroom and some has taken a really sinky poop. so what I want to know is what does ass really smell like if you could compare? you tell me .

fece frank (not verified) -- 03.29.2007

I think i may have a problem. How often do u take a dump? Somtimes i find myself going 4, 5 times a day. Not to mention every time i go, afterwards i don't feel 100% done. I wonder if i have some parasite in me. Or sometimes when i go, very little comes out and it looks like someone spit in the toilet. Is that stomach acid?

not alone anymore (not verified) -- 04.01.2007

AFTER ABOUT THIRTY MINUTES OF LAUGHING MY ASS OFF i FINALLY GOT TO THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE. I HAVE OFTEN BEEN TOLD THAT MY "POTTY "HUMOR WAS UNCOUTH, BUT AFTER SEEING THIS I WONDER HAVE I GONE FAR ENOUGH. THANK YOU GUYS FOR LETTING ME LOOSE ONCE AGAIN, NOW I HAVE TO SHIT OR GET OFF THE POT AND TAKE THE BROWNS TO THE SUPERBOWL. FAIR WARNING... I WILL BE BACK

armageddonpoopmeister (not verified) -- 04.05.2007

I think the smelliest vegetable to add scent to poop I've noticed be a carrot. Due to the fact they loaded with bunches more natural salts & also a large amount of sugar. They're a root crop so they smell strong & earthier than poatoes (funny but potatoes will add bulk to poop but not a smell) & yet flowery. If you ate a meal of carrots exclusively this smells more & carries farther. = If at end of world when dogs hunt you all for those concentration FEMA camps try to not eat a whole can of carrots. Plan to mix the carrots even with a can of peas or something.

fartqueen (54) -- 04.30.2007


come to my house once,my man has the smellest farts and poop!It smells like dead nightcrawlers!I wonder why that is?Maybe he eats worm sandwiches for lunch.._______
fartqueen

angelina (not verified) -- 05.04.2007

hm i just wanted to know if courney and keeley ever still went on here....i miss you guys! look up at the dates from when we talked on here a long time ago till the date i just posted this..man its been a long time and we have grown soo much...i love u two!

Poop-phobic (not verified) -- 10.31.2007

Okay so I do actually have a phobia of the word P.O.O i dont mind people saying poop, thats ok, but without that extra p, its the most disgusting word ever.

but when stumbling upon this site, I have worked through it, wretching at anyone saying the word without the extra p and yeah, i still absolutely hate it.

i'm sorry

i let the side down
xox

Anonymous Coward (not verified) -- 11.11.2007

Is there a difference in smell between male and female poop? Do hormones factor in?

poo boy (not verified) -- 11.22.2007

I just dont get it if food dosnt smell that way
[thank u god]than y does poop smell so bad????

daphne (3202) -- 11.22.2007

Because, poo boy, poop is more than just digested food. It's mostly water, first off, and besides leftover food, poop has cellular waste in it. All these things combine to make a bad smell.

Happy Thanksgiving! May your poop smell like turkey instead.....

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.....hugging bunnies since 1969
www.daphneszoo.com

mrs. toilet (not verified) -- 11.26.2007

helpful hint.

when you sprinkle while you tinkle be a sweetie wipe the seatie (:

holy mother of shite (not verified) -- 11.26.2007

I totally agree with the nurse, i am doing my midwifery training and i have two girls and i breastfed them, their poo smelt like digestive biscuts but as soon as i put them on solids, holy crap their nappies were bad, hats off to anyone who can have a job cleaning the throne other than your own, but im a girl and i love to have a nice crap even when my hubby is having a shower or when im in the bath he pops in to offload, it all part of the bonding process, even when i does smell!!!!!!
happy crapping to you all.

That guy looking through your window. (not verified) -- 12.22.2007

This is truly very brown.

youcanstalkme (not verified) -- 01.02.2008

lol you guys are too funny. Its gross...but its funny lmao.

King Shit of Turd's Island (not verified) -- 01.14.2008

Indole, skatole, mercaptans, and hydrogen sulfide are the chemicles that give dookie it's unique scent.

That being said, There's something about a nice Reuben sandwich with loads of sour krout...or really any cabbage in general seems to turn into pure methane in my gut.

Anonymous Person (not verified) -- 03.31.2008

Sometimes when I don't wipe, my ass hole gets really itchy - why does this happen?? Is it a rash of some sort? It reminds me of dane cook's 'itchy assholes' sketch! lol.

sittingpretty (124) -- 04.01.2008

AnonPerson, your ass itches because it has ass-eating shit on it. The acid and bile salts in the poop breaks down the epidermis and viola! A raw itchy stinky ass. Do yourself and the world a favor and wipe your ass after you chuck a chunder. If you don't know how, here is how: 1. wipe with dry TP front to back until the chunky chunder is off. 2. wipe with wetwipe from the back- around,
over and in anus. Stick your wetwipe wrapped middle finger just past the external sphincter and gently spread the little ass wrinkles to get it all out. Then wipe front to back using same method. (If female don't touch the hhhahhmm with any crap napkins.)3. wipe again with dry tp. Also get some Acid Mantle cream and apply to the irritated area after each cleaning. I hope this helps you. Huggies green tea and cucumber wipes are soft and smell good(not baby smell). Scott 1000 sheet single ply leaves no butt dust and flushes well.

I think shit smell and its accompaniment of bells and whistles is a primitive inborn alarm system. It was the caveman warning to steer clear of the unseen squatter in action. The smell is the warning to not step or sit in shit.

baron von crapalot (341) -- 04.01.2008


No No No No, your shit doesn't smell, your nose does that for you. Your shit stinks, your nose smells.... Duh!

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like a constipated accountant- I worked it out with a pencil.

prarie doggin (1368) -- 04.01.2008

BVC, my poop indeed does smell. It also speaks, and if requested, does a mean soft shoe.

Anonymous Coward (not verified) -- 04.22.2008

my poop smells like bad mince meat on a dead body. Sickly sweet- but sourly putrid. Should i be worried?

Bilgepump (1336) -- 04.22.2008

Heaven's no, no need to worry. Its far too late for that, you are far better served enjoying your last few minutes on earth.

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