uncontrolled discharge from anus after bowel movement

So...the florastor seems to be actually working a bit. It seems to dull the itch/burning feeling. One thing I am also using is tuck's wipes right after a bowel movement. So...things I can recommend. Use florastor twice per day. Wipe with tuck's witch hazel after bowel movement. Eliminate/cut drastically caffeine such as coffee and tea, and cut carbonated sodas or drinks out of the diet. Also...cut down on tomato sauce products, anything cheesy, and too much pasta. I'm someone who has had this for years and with these steps it seems to have been dulled. Please try this

After taking an antibiotic for a spider bite and it's bacterial infection 8 months ago, within  2 weeks of ending the pills, I started to get uncontrolled discharge from my rear end. Very small but noticeable discharge. If I ate chilies, onions uncooked or Tabasco it burned like hell. I coined it "Squishy Butt Syndrome" for a better name. Not one doctor at Kaiser knew what was wrong. I couldn't walk the block without having to wipe. Not a day went by without wiping 3 to 4 times and my rear end was feeling the pain. After three fecal tests for everything from parasites to CDAD, and 8 months of constantly wiping and hours of searching the web for anything on the subject, my Girlfriend found this blog...Thank God!

I proud to say "Squishy Butt Syndrome" has been eliminated!!!!

Metamucil 3 times per day + 1 18 million or billion tablet of a refrigerated pro-biotic did the trick. 1 week after starting the pro-biotic I still had the problem, but it was greatly reduced. When I took my first days worth of Metamucil it vanished immediately and has not come back. It's been two weeks and all is good.

Metamucil is available everywhere and the refrigerated pro-biotics can be found in health food stores.  What really makes me mad is that this apparently is a common after-effect to antibiotics, yet Kaiser would not disclose this fact and would not render the cure. Rather, they took the "Bill them till the drop "attitude and ran all kinds of expensive tests wasting my time and money.  If you have "Squishy Butt Syndrome" and you did not take antibiotics, then go see a doctor ASAP.

One more thing: Probiotic yogurt will not help so do not waste your money.

Jim, what refrigerated probiotics did you take?

I take it every day yet I can't remember the name. I do know it has 15 billion spores and needs to be refrigerated to keep them alive. I just went to my local health food store and asked for the probiotic section.
I'll make it a plan to jot down the name and get back with the answer tomorrow. Remember the Metamucil, it's really the key to this nightmare I believe. Weather is soaks up the discharge or allows the fecal matter to do it, it seems to work.

Hello Mary, the probiotic is called;

Ultimate Flora
Adult Formula
15 Billion
10 probiotic strains

made by "Renew Life"

Good luck

Jim, thanks for the response! I will give these a try!



I also wanted to ask, are you still using the probiotics after your condition was gone?



Also, how severe was your condition? Mine was occurring every single time after I have a bowel movement. I would get these itchy/burning feeling when I walked and it would get worse unless I wiped.

I'm still taking the pills and Metamucil.

My condition happened all day long every day and burned when I ate any onions or chili based products. If I bent over it happened. If I put any pressure on my gut it happened.

The Jury is still out, but at least I can keep it at bay. I'll write up my findings when my supply of probiotics is gone.

Hi everyone! Thank you all for being so brave and honest! I am so thankful to have found this website. My boyfriend has this leaky stool condition for 4 years now, I've been with him for the last year and a half. I love him dearly and want so bad to help him find a solution as many of you are doing. I am secretly reaching out for help for him, but I will confess to him soon that I am doing this. In fact, tonight for the last hour he has been running to the bathroom every 10 minutes or so. Ever since I've been with him, I've noticed this always seem to start at night when is he sleeping and lasts for a few hours. I had a feeling this was going to happen tonight because it always starts out with his tummy making funny sounds, growling and churning sounds. The frequency for him seems to be at least once or twice a month, at night. The smell though, is not "fishy" as many have described. It is extremely strong, because I have an extremely acute sense of smell, and permeates the entire room. It's never solid it is liquid. He's been to his doctor, at Kaiser, provided a stool sample and had blood works done and the results indicate that he is in good health. He is type 2 diabetic and is on cholesterol medication. At first I thought the cause were margarita drinks and Dr Pepper but turns out it's not. The last time he had leaky stool was at least 3 weeks ago, which is longer than usual. I am wondering if it has anything to do with a fatty diet, like, oily diet. It happened once when he ate pepperoni pizzas. He seemed to be fine for at least 3 weeks until I fed him spaghetti with ground beef and a garlic tomato sauce Wednesday night. Someone mentioned tomato sauce as a possible culprit. I am starting to wonder if that may be true. I will get to the bottom of this. I will create a dietary log and log everything he eats, the meds he takes, his immune system (if he has the cold,flu, etc) and see if I could detect some sort of pattern. I will also start him on Probiotics like some of you have suggested. If you have not already done so, please start a dietary record. I would love to compare notes and see if we all could get to the bottom of this mysterious condition.

I decided to test if I was cured, so I ate 2 Mexican meals over the weekend with Salsa, Jalapenos, and other Chili based products including rice and beans. Then I had Jalapeno poppers and BBQ chicken last night. So, basically I pigged out and drank like a fish (Blue Moon) and today I showed a very small sign of Squishy Butt by 10AM.

I firmly believe that eating chilies or anything made from chilies including tomatoes, uncooked onions, lemons or acidic products will irritate the intestine and produce squishy butt.

If it only took 10 days of antibiotics to destroy what good Flora I had built up over 51 years, then how long will it take to replenish that flora? I am still on my first jar of Probiotics and still pounding Metamucil twice daily. However, after three weeks of normalcy, to get it back after one weekend of gluttony, albeit a short time, tells me Its going to be a long road to recovery.

Just adding another experience here.

Just adding another experience here.

I have had the problem all my life. I am 48 now. I believe it is food allergies and food sensitivities. Tomato sauce and carbs & dairy . I am surprised that nobody mentioned wheat gluten. When I was on a wheat free diet & dairy free diet it went away 100%. I do feel coffee is an irritant as well. If you are sensitive to wheat it only takes a tiny amount of contamination to cause a problem. Wheat is in everything & contamination can be easy. You have to read about it & educate yourself and be prepared not to eat common  tasty foods anymore because the gluten or in some people the yeast from the carbs are slowly killing you. Wheat has been altered over the last 50 years and is not the same plant our parents , parents consumed. They have been bio engineered & our bodies are not adopted to digest it properly. Could lead to colon cancer & crons , celliac  IBS and yes leaky fluids among a million other things which could be heading towards disease. Your body is responding to food allergies. You need to listen to it. You should find out which Gluten you are allergic to because all grain contains its own signature protein Gluten. Usually wheat is primary with many but corn & barley & oats can all be trouble. Healthy alternatives could be potatoes & rice but you need to be on the lookout for contamination. I still have trouble only because I cheated again with dairy & wheat and when combined with tomato sauce the problem comes back and stays back for a couple of days until I go Gluten free , a rice based diet with no dairy or tomato sauce.  The red sauce is a big problem as well I am wondering if there is some bio engineering going on with the sauce or is it just the acid in the sauce. Rice is not gluten free but is ok with me . I hope this helps.

Yes, I've had this problem for a few years, no solutions whatsoever. But I will use TP or kleenex folded to absorb until leaking has subsided. Obviously not a solution, but sure helps me avoid countless embarrassing moments. Hopefully that helps. No need to soil undergarments and leave streaks on car seats.



Sad, really, that doctors have no clue what this is.

Still going to the doctor, and he has just been prescribing me cream after cream, which is getting very annoying! I do have one hemorrhoid that he injected to make it fall off, this failed (i think because he missed the injection point into the vein). 

I tried taking just the probiotic for several days, but nothing seemed to change except a bit less pressure in the abdominal area, so I finally went to the pharmacy yesterday and got the (generic) Konsyl powder.  It's like Metamucil, but more concentrated, so you take less.  I took the first dose last night, and this morning I had the healthiest bowel movement in recent memory.  Pardon the graphic description, but it actually started out at one end looking dark and nasty, and ended up smooth and healthy.  Unreal.  However, the night before, I had had leakage exactly like HelpMePlease describes, and there's been some residue left over from that, so today wasn't a complete success, but at least 75% better so far.  Still troubled by gas and bloating, plus roughness from blotting the leakage, but I did go to the gym and everything went fine there (it usually does, but a few weeks ago, on my own, I had leakage that I could feel while doing pushups, and it was a mess when I got home—this is what finally drove me to go to the doctor).