My stools are green - what does this mean???!?!


Question: i'm scared - for no reason? or not?


Answers: i'm scared - for no reason? or not?

don't be scared unless it happens alllll the time. probably something in your diet.

call your doc and ask if he/she thinks you should come in!

You're over grazing the back 40 acres.

means you have no taste in furniture!

Eat more meat. Guaranteed to make brown round.

it means you are a leprachaun

do you eat a lot of green veggies

did you drink something like purple kool aid or grape gatorade, these always turn my daughters poop green, probably just your diet, don't worry unless there is blood in your poo or you have black tarry poo.

This is from the website, The Scoop on Poop:

"What is the cause of green poop?
(Question submitted by ap, CrAzYMiC98 and several others)
I have consulted with a doctor, a physiologist and a microbiologist on this question, and the following summarizes their answers:
Healthy people can have green poop if they eat a diet rich in leafy green vegetables, or if they consume large quantities of food coloring (in ice cream, cake frosting etc.).
Green poop can also be caused by excess iron in the diet, from dietary supplements, for example. If the body does not absorb all the iron consumed, the iron may stain the poop green, the color of iron (II) salts. Ordinarily, the green color may be masked by the normal brown poop color, but if digestion is thrown off by illness so that bilirubin is less concentrated in the intestine, the green color may become apparent. This can happen when a person is afflicted with diarrhea.
Green poop in sick babies may come from iron in baby formula not being properly absorbed, or by green pigments in bile salts (again, green from iron)."

http://www.heptune.com/poop.html

It could be a viral problem.





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