bright green stool?

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Registered: 07-12-2004
bright green stool?
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Fri, 12-03-2004 - 4:10pm
I feel a little weird asking this but does anyone know what could be causing me to have bright green stool? i'm not on any new meds. i started using birth control pills a month ago that's it. any suggestions would be great. thanks so much
-michelle
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Registered: 10-01-2002
Fri, 12-03-2004 - 6:58pm

Are you eating any salads

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Registered: 03-23-2003
Sat, 12-04-2004 - 3:55pm

Hey Michelle,


I tend to think it was probably something you ate.

 
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Registered: 05-25-2004
Sat, 12-18-2004 - 12:21am
Oh my gosh! This is so embarassing, but I am having the same problem. And, in my case, it's not an overload of veggies or anything like that. The only new medicine I have begun to take recently is Folic Acid, but I don't think that would cause this problem. I'm talking this is like kelly green or grass green. And, it should just not be that color! :-) Any help woul dbe greatly appreciated! Thanks!
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Registered: 10-14-2003
Sat, 12-18-2004 - 9:30am

HI and Welcome All

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Registered: 12-17-2004
Sat, 12-18-2004 - 12:07pm
Grape KoolAid can be a culprit for green stools - I learned through the pediatrician when my boys were young - scared me alot when their stools turned BRIGHT green. Any purple colored foods or drinks lately? Just a thought.
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Registered: 09-16-2002
Tue, 12-21-2004 - 8:48am

This is what I found on the Internet when I typed "green stool" in Google:

Green stools are basically normal. They are usually seen with more forceful diarrhea. Bile is a fat-digesting substance that is secreted in the first part of the small intestine. It has a brilliant green color. That color is how the mixture of food and digestive juice actually appears in the small intestine. Eventually the remaining mixture of undigested food material and digestive juices, which is now a waste product, reaches the colon for elimination. Bacteria then break the bile salts down into simpler substances which are darker in color. Hence the material that will be passed as stool normally undergoes a progressive color change from green to more yellow to brown. So green stool simply means that the mixture of food and digestive juices is passing through the large intestine faster than normal (a "decreased colonic transit time"). That is no surprise when a child has diarrhea. If the reverse situation occurs, in that the stool remains for an abnormally long time in the colon (as with constipation), then the color of the stool can become quite dark.

Hope it helps!

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Registered: 10-14-2003
Tue, 12-21-2004 - 3:24pm
Thanks

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Registered: 03-23-2003
Wed, 12-22-2004 - 8:46pm

Thanks for the post!!