Pediatric digestive health
Pooficient tracks what your child eats, how they feel, and what comes out — and connects the dots automatically. Built with pediatric specialists.
Pediatric digestive issues are the most common reason families end up in a GI clinic.
Constipation alone affects up to 1 in 3 children at some point — and 95% of those cases are functional, meaning there's no underlying disease. No blockage. No anatomy problem. It's the gut, the diet, the routine, and the medication regimen working together — or not working together. Which is exactly the kind of thing an app can help with, if it's built right.
Constipation is where most families need help first. But the same daily tracking, food correlation, and clinical visibility matters across the full landscape of pediatric GI — from picky eating to starting solids to IBS, IBD, celiac, and food intolerances.
$4B+ in U.S. annual healthcare spend traces back to pediatric constipation.
Pediatric digestive care generates a lot of data — what they ate, when they pooped, how they felt, what medications they took. The problem isn't collecting it. The problem is that nobody can actually see the patterns hiding in it.
Pooficient is a correlation layer. Tell us what your child ate. Snap a photo of the stool. Note the symptoms. We cross-reference everything automatically and surface the patterns: the foods that trigger flares, the days adherence slipped, the symptoms that cluster. The stuff a pediatric GI would spot if they had eyes on your kid 24/7 — except they don't, and you do.
01Food
Just say what your child ate. Our AI handles the rest — fiber, nutrients, ingredient flags, dairy and gluten detection.
No barcode scanning, no measuring cups.
02Knowledge
Browse 100+ foods to see what to introduce, when, and how — fiber, FODMAP, allergens, and baby-led weaning. Built with pediatric nutrition guidance.
03Stool
Snap a photo. Our model classifies it on the Bristol Stool Scale instantly, with a confidence read on consistency.
No more guessing, no more describing it to a pediatrician over the phone.
04Trends
A clear daily read on how your child's gut is doing — health score, fiber intake, bowel movements — so you see the trajectory over weeks and months, not just the day-of memory.
05Clinical
Generate a clean report of your child's food, stool, and symptom history, with Bristol distribution. Send it before the appointment. Walk into the visit with data, not memory.
06Learn
Pediatric GI knowledge in plain language — constipation, picky eating, starting solids, and more. Written by pediatricians, for the questions you have between visits.
And we cross-correlate all of it — automatically.
Why constipation first
Functional constipation in children is one of the most underserved problems in primary care. Families cycle through pediatricians. Laxative regimens get adjusted. Progress is tracked on memory and gut instinct. There's no feedback loop.
Pooficient closes the loop. When parents log daily, the data shows patterns that a 15-minute clinic visit never could — which foods correlate with harder stools, whether the medication dose is actually being given, what days the routine slips. The correlation is the clinical value.
The same infrastructure that works for constipation works for every condition where daily data matters. Which is most of pediatric GI.
Pooficient was built to make the daily work easier — so the medication actually gets taken, the symptoms actually get tracked, and the kids actually get better.
Who it's for
Functional constipation
Daily medication tracking, stool monitoring, shareable doctor reports.
Starting solids
What to introduce, when, and how to track tolerance.
Picky eaters
Food variety tracking, nutritional gaps, behavior patterns.
IBS
Trigger food identification, symptom flare tracking.
IBD (Crohn's, ulcerative colitis)
Symptom monitoring between clinic visits.
Celiac disease
Gluten exposure tracking, symptom correlation.
Food intolerances and allergies
Pinpoint reactions with the food-symptom timeline.
Same app. Different conditions. The data tells the story.
Outcomes
83%
median medication-logging adherence in the first month. Families recorded their child's dose on 83% of days, holding above 70% at three months.
70%
of families were still actively using the app at 8 weeks (82% at week one), well past where most health apps lose people.
91%
of families used the AI stool-photo feature, submitting a photo for instant Bristol classification. (100% logged stool at least once.)
93%
of those AI photo classifications matched the parent's own Bristol score. The model agrees with caregivers 9 times out of 10.
Parents using Pooficient generate PDF reports they share with their pediatrician before visits, ask questions in the in-app chatbot instead of waiting on a callback, and walk into appointments with the data their doctor actually needs. The app is designed to reduce reliance on between-visit calls and to make follow-up time more productive.
Stats from internal user data and a retrospective cohort of users tracked between Feb 2025 and Feb 2026.
Featured in the research
Patient and family facing digital applications are empowering patients to collect and control their data and choose when and how to share them with their health care team.
| App | Intended use | Disease focus | Key feature |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dieta Healthdietahealth.com | Tracking, Personalized recommendations | IBS | AI stool recognition |
| Doc4Medoc4me-app.com | Transition of care | IBD | Adult doctor finder |
| Mejomymejo.com | Tracking, Sharing | Chronic/complex | Patient/family-driven health summary |
| MyGiHealthmygi.health | Tracking, Sharing, Personalized recommendations | Multiple | Data used for academic research |
| Pooficientpooficient.com | Tracking, Sharing, Personalized recommendations | Functional constipation | Pediatric specific |
Pooficient named among five apps shaping the future of pediatric GI — Gastroenterology Clinics of North America, Elsevier, 2025.
The team
Aydın Yağmurlu, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Professor of pediatric surgery and urology with 30+ years of experience, 140+ peer-reviewed publications, and former Middle East Chapter President of the International Pediatric Endosurgery Group. He has led his own clinic for over 15 years, serving more than 10,000 patients, and competes as an Ironman triathlete.
Eren Yağmurlu
Chief Executive Officer
Former investment banker specializing in consumer subscription software and consumer-facing, insurance-paid healthcare. Previously at GP Bullhound in San Francisco, advising Flo Health on its $200M Series C from General Atlantic and portfolio companies of Accel, Battery, Khosla, and Y Combinator on Series B and above fundraises and M&A transactions. Former professional water polo player.
Yağız Efe Mertol
Chief Technology Officer
Software engineer and mobile entrepreneur who formerly co-founded Two Page Games, where he led a team of 10 to ship 60+ mobile apps and games, drive 10M+ downloads, and sell hyper-casual hit Candle Gift to Zynga in 2023. Alum of Draper University, Tim Draper's Silicon Valley founder accelerator.
Bartu Şişman
Founding Engineer
Software engineer and AI specialist who built a computer-vision library at Roketsan, Turkey's largest defense-tech company, adopted as shared infrastructure across multiple engineering teams. Experienced in fine-tuning vision-language models and building real-time AI voice agents from scratch. CS from Sabancı University, one of Turkey's most selective programs.
John M. Rosen, MD
Clinical Advisor
A board-certified pediatric gastroenterologist, researcher, and medical innovator with expertise in neurogastroenterology, digital health, and emerging technologies in clinical care. He has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed publications and contributed to national clinical guidelines, bringing valuable insight into the responsible development of digital health solutions.
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