NHS websites will replace 'stools' and 'faeces' with 'POO' to avoid confusion

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In the hopes of preventing users from getting confused, the NHS has revealed this it is replacing several words on its websites.

The words ‘stools’ and ‘faeces’ will be replaced by ‘poo’, while the word ‘urinate’ will be replaced by ‘pee.’

Other words being changed include ‘vomiting’ to ‘being sick’, and ‘oral’ to ‘mouth’.

The changes come after an NHS survey of 10,000 people revealed that patients preferred simple words, regardless of their educational level, according to The Sun.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/science/nhs-websites-replace-stools-faeces-14152831
 
Northerner said:
In the hopes of preventing users from getting confused, the NHS has revealed this it is replacing several words on its websites.

The words ‘stools’ and ‘faeces’ will be replaced by ‘poo’, while the word ‘urinate’ will be replaced by ‘pee.’

Other words being changed include ‘vomiting’ to ‘being sick’, and ‘oral’ to ‘mouth’.

The changes come after an NHS survey of 10,000 people revealed that patients preferred simple words, regardless of their educational level, according to The Sun.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/science/nhs-websites-replace-stools-faeces-14152831
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Well, it's better than if they had asked me to re write it.
 
Aaaah - so will they also change the Bristol Scale to the Avon Gorge Poo Scale?
 
What a load of crap. :D Do agree though. 😉 It's not dumbing down, it's just common sense There's loads of things - basal/bolus what does it even mean? Alright I do know but it's not exactly user friendly. When I first went on it it was simply long acting and short acting. At diagnosis in hospital the nurse would come round filling in the charts - have you opened your bowels this morning? Eh, I've been for a sh*t if that's what you mean. What about prandial? Does anyone ever use that word apart from on here thinking they're a doctor. (Mike excepted :D ).

"Well, I was, uh, sitting in the public library on Thurmon Street just now, skimming through 'Rogue Herrys' by Hugh Walpole, and I suddenly came over all peckish.

Peckish, sir?

Esuriant.

Eh?

'Ee I were all 'ungry-like!

Ah, hungry!"
 
I used to say liquids or solids going to the toilet: straight to the point & no mistaking the two.🙄

Because once I said to my GP there was blood when I went to the toilet & too embarassed to say more. I was sent to get a sample in the treatment room & found out the nurses wanted a poo sample. I then had to tell them I meant there was blood in my pee. The nurse then phoned the GP back & the right sample was tested! Never again: best to be clear.😱

Then saw the pampers ads, quite some time ago, & thought no. 1's & no. 2's was brilliant & have been using that ever since: very polite; perfect for the British people!🙄:D
 
I think “poo” is perfectly acceptable. It’s the word used by grandson’s nursery, so it’s common parlance. And it’s never used as a curse. You don’t shout “Poo” when you hit your thumb with the hammer.
 
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