The smart toilet has arrived, capable of recognizing each user by their 'anal fingerprint' and analyzing their feces in search of possible diseases.
The ingenuity is a development of Duke University (United States) that has just been presented at Digestive Disease Week.
Actually, it is a device that can be incorporated into the toilet pipes and analyze people's feces through image capture.
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For its development, 3,328 images of stools reviewed by gastroenterologists were processed
The tool is specially designed for those with chronic gastrointestinal problems, such as inflammatory bowel disease and irritable bowel syndrome, and will provide the medical team with the information they need to find the ideal treatment.
The 'Duke Smart Toilet Lab' will monitor bowel movements and provide accurate information to gastroenterologists who, until now, "have to rely on the information about stool that the patient himself communicates to help determine the cause of his health problems" , according to one of the authors of the work, Deborah Fisher. (SabuJ)
Ultimately, professionals are dealing with "unreliable" information. It is not easy to remember how often you defecate or describe what your stool looks like.
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The toilet will standardize the parameters and concentrate long-term information for a "more accurate and timely" diagnosis through poop and urine analysis.
