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Stool color is the color of a person's poop.

Dr. Kat Kat reviewed this

33 years experience

How long it usually lasts:

Chronic (lasts years to lifelong)

How common it is:

Very rare

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A 32-year old asked:

What can cause a change in stool color?

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A 44-year old asked:

Can eating greek yogurt change your stool color?

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A 33-year old asked:

Is stool color related to what you eat and drink?

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A 46-year old female asked:

can any doctor post what abnormal stool color it looks like?

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A 24-year old female asked:

I have had abnormal stool color... its been white fot a week? why would that be?

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A 39-year old male asked:

What shades of brown are considered "normal" stool color? What colors are cause for concern?

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A member asked:

I have had changes in stool color and consistency over the past several months what can this mean?

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A 46-year old asked:

Stool color is grey. help! please?

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A 33-year old asked:

My stool color is green and I go to the bathroom eight times a day. Is that normal?

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A 31-year old asked:

Low fat diet changed stool color, is it normal?

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A 38-year old asked:

What foods help improve digestion, stool color, and liver / gallbladder function?

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A 36-year old male asked:

My 4 months old baby stool color is grey. what are the reasons for grey color of stool and treatments. he is bottel feeding?

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A 42-year old asked:

Can wheat or milk protein change stool color?

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A 46-year old female asked:

Normal liver enzynes normal colonoscopy but stool color is bright yellowish brown what do i test for or is this normal?

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A 53-year old male asked about a female:

My two month baby girl refused to sackle these days. Her mother got worried.the baby's stool color is greenish and watery. Doc what is this condition?

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A 46-year old female asked:

Dijon mustard colored stool rapid transit ggt was 9 billirubin .5 alk phos 58 does this rule out liver for stool color?

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A 46-year old female asked:

Stool dijon mustard color bilirubin .4 alt 13 ast 11 all other tests normal does this rule out bile issues for stool color?

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A 36-year old male asked:

My 4 month baby stool color is grey and he is bottle feeding and test report showing candida yeast. please suggest treatment & what are the reasons ?

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A 43-year old male asked:

Started taking Plaquenil (hydroxychloroquine) 2 months ago, since than have light stool color. As of a week ago, liver and pancreas enzyme are normal, billirubin is norma?

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A 31-year old female asked:

Is stool the color of a brown paper bag a normal color for stool?

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A 31-year old asked:

little bit of blood in my stool. marroon color and mixed in the stool.from what can that be?

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A 34-year old asked:

One half of stool different color than other but mixed a bit?

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A 26-year old female asked:

Is it normal to have loose stool /yellowish color 1 and half days post colonoscopy?

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A 55-year old female asked:

upper right stomach pain, comes an goes,also a change in stool. white color, also sick feeling. off balance dizzy. sweats. why?

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A 31-year old male asked:

treatment for green color stool for kid?

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A 23-year old male asked:

Inconsistant stool timing, the Color of stool sometimes semi black how shall I cure that?

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A 46-year old male asked:

For the last three weeks now my stool texture and color has changed . Stool seems to not be well formed and soft and dark ?

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A 29-year old male asked:

Can Charco Caps(carbo vegerabills, lycipodium clavatum, cinchona officinalis, sulphur) turn stool a charcoal color? Nearly black?

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A 18-year old male asked:

I have blood in stool somtimes its color dark red and somtimes its color fresh red?is it dangerous?but it is not always happend to me. i dnt feel pain

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A 18-year old male asked:

18 male been binging HEAVY after diet crash, been making stools 6+ times a day. Kinda scared? Is it cancer? Stools look normal color softish,help

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