Why Is My Poop Green? - TMI

[DanBlather]

I am in Mexoco City and just took a dump. It is bright green!! It's the color of a St Patrick's Day card, not some dull just ate spinach kind of thing. I can't think of anything offhand that could have done this. The only really strange thing I've ate was some pasta with a "Oaxcan herb related to oregano". It did not turn the dish green.

[SanVito]

Do you feel ok?

Any discomfort before or during?

Was it a different, ahem, texture from normal?

Any heavy drinking sessions the night before?

[An Arky]

Froot Loops will do it, or anything with a lot of food coloring in it (for some reason, green is the color that seems to make it through the ringer).

[Johnny L.A.]

I had interesting coloured poo when I drank Skeleteens drinks.

[DanBlather]

Do you feel ok?

Any discomfort before or during?

Was it a different, ahem, texture from normal?

Any heavy drinking sessions the night before?No, I feel fine. Everything was normal otherwise.

[Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor]

Get Pepto---NOW!

You will bless me for this guidance later, young Padawan.

[DanBlather]

Get Pepto---NOW!

You will bless me for this guidance later, young Padawan."There is no trying, only pooing".

[Mama Zappa]

Cheap licorice candy will do that to me (not a better brand like Twizzlers). Also used to happen if I ate chocolate-flavored popcorn from a local shop, a few years back. I've never heard of green poop being a health problem, but if it doesn't "resolve" soon it certainly couldn't hurt to check with a doctor.

[shizaru]

I'm still wondering how corn is still in there when I poo....and sometimes peanuts, even when I haven't eaten any peanuts...

If you don't feel sick, I wouldn't worry about it. But I would take the Pepto just in case.

[NoClueBoy]

Doesn't have to be about what you ate, might be about what you drank.

Any specialty cocktails? Power Ade? Artificially coloured fruit drink? Odd brand soft drink?

Perhaps even some of the flavoured ices or snow cones.

[Zsofia]

The "skin" on corn is pretty tough, and it survives the trip. That also means you didn't get anything out of it nutritionally, though, so I've heard you should chew your corn pretty well.

[Bobotheoptimist]

Taken any Zirtec®?

[Bobotheoptimist]

Taken any Zirtec®?
Ew, that's hideous!
Try again without playing with fonts...

Taken any Zirtec lately?

[spingears]

I am in Mexoco City and just took a dump. It is bright green!! It's the color of a St Patrick's Day card, not some dull just ate spinach kind of thing. I can't think of anything offhand that could have done this. The only really strange thing I've ate was some pasta with a "Oaxcan herb related to oregano". It did not turn the dish green.You are.... errr ... Your poop is what you eat!
It was either the Oxcan herb or 'something' in the water!
PS Poop isn't a 'dish.' A dish obviously is not like poop in any way and not affected by the food on it.

[Duke of Rat]

...with a "Oaxcan herb

Ah, Oaxcan herb, I remember it fondly.

[pseudotriton ruber ruber]

Have you tried removing your sunglasses?

[Diceman]

Several years ago, one nice October day, I bought a special "Halloween bagel" from a bagel shop. Half the bagel was orange, and half was black. Apparently, they got the black color by adding a truck load of green food coloring. I know this because my turds were a bright kelly green for the next week.

[diggleblop]

Sometimes Vitamins will cause it as well

[RetroVertigo]

Green poop is caused by excess Biliverdin build up in your digestive track. Eventually Biliverdin is broken down to Bilirubin which gives the normal brownish color. Both these chemicals are form by decaying red-blood cells, and sometimes the body evacuates the poop before the process is finished.

Grape flavored soda causes this too happen to me.

[BobT]

Happened to me once when I had a really bad case of the flu and my liver functions that got thrown off a bit. But just once.

At that point I was grateful that anything came out that was in one piece.

[DanBlather]

I have a new theory; the pasta with the Oaxacan herb (not that herb smart-alecs) was black. Usually that's from using cocoa or squid ink, but if they used food dye that would explain it

[St_Ides]

Purple food dye makes your poop green.

I've tested this with grape pop, various grape candies and other purple substances.

I assure you, this is the answer you seek.

[Can Handle the Truth]

I have pooped green turds after drinking green Gatorade or after eating wraps with the tortillas dyed green.