Note each bowel movement with its shape, the water you drink and what you eat. Cognia crosses the data and shows what repeats. Cognia does not diagnose or recommend laxatives.
Pick the shape from the seven Bristol types and, if you like, the colour, signs such as blood, mucus, pain, straining, urgency or feeling you have not emptied, and a note. It is saved with its time, and the day’s count and the history take care of themselves.
Automatic alerts can tell you, for example, that you have gone three days without logging a bowel movement. You adjust how often you want them.
Each drink of water adds to your day’s total. With Premium, scheduled water and meal reminders.
Log meals, bloating, tummy pain and constipation. When a food, supplement or medication shows up before a symptom, Cognia saves the match; if it repeats, it moves up a level and shows how many times.
When you log constipation, Cognia asks about the stool’s appearance, straining or pain, the feeling of not emptying and whether there is blood. For anyone caring for a child or relative, it also asks about changes in behaviour.
Constipation has no alarm questions of its own in Cognia. If you log blood in your stool, there are level-based alerts with the NHS page behind them, depending on how much blood and what colour. They are guidance only.
The traffic light weighs foods from your constipation angle, with the reason and, when there is one, the source. The catalogue tells apart the preparations of the same food: none is simply good or bad. It informs rather than forbids.
With Premium, a day-by-day log, with or without bowel movements, as a PDF. Bowel movements are private data: you decide whether they go in the report.