# Color Code for your Feces (kind of gross) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 7, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-code-for-your-feces-kind-of-gross/206090 "2003-10-07T16:26:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![smootman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@smootman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smootman)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-code-for-your-feces-kind-of-gross/206090/21 "2003-10-08T12:40:41Z")
FOr that matter… if urine is sterile and you can drink it… how long could one survive drinking their own urine and eating unprocessed corn & saurkraut? ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-code-for-your-feces-kind-of-gross/206090/22 "2003-10-08T12:52:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by refusal \* > \*\*All I know is that Guinness makes your poop black. > > If you existed on a diet of nothing but sweetcorn, would you shit cobs? \*\* And if you get sick and take a swig of Pepto Bismol with 4 aspirin (to form bismuth salicylicate?) that will clog you for a little while and “leave yer turds black as sackcloth.” ---
**Author:** ![Coil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Coil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coil)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-code-for-your-feces-kind-of-gross/206090/23 "2003-10-08T14:42:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SlickRoenick \* > \*\*IANAPoopologist, but my friend’s dad told me that the medicine he used to take actually separated the grease and fat from foods. He’d crap that out in a jelly-like substance at different times than the regular delivery. I do not recall what kind of drug he was taking. \*\* Maybe it was orlistat (AKA Xenical). Basically it prevents the body from absorbing parts of the fat in the food eaten. If a person on orlistat eats too much fat it just passes out of the body. ---
**Author:** ![biddee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@biddee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/biddee)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-code-for-your-feces-kind-of-gross/206090/24 "2003-10-08T14:49:41Z")
**Drugs That May Discolour Faeces** **BLACK** Acetazolamide Digoxin Sulphonamides Aluminum Hydroxide Ferrous Salts Tetracycline Aminophylline Hydralazine Theophylline Amphetamine Hydrocortisone Triamcinolone Amphotericin B Methotrexate Warfarin Corticosteriods Potassium Salts Chlorpropamide Prednisolone **BLUE** Chloramphenicol **GREEN** Indomethacin \*\*PINK/RED \*\*\* Anticoagulants Aspirin-like drugs Barium Heparin \*\*ORANGE/RED \*\*\* Rifampicin Clofazimine **YELLOW** Senna Antibiotics (Oral) Barium **BLACK/WHITE SPECKING** Aluminum hydroxide - These colours may indicate intestinal bleeding **Drugs that May Discolour Urine** **BLACK/BROWN** Ferrous Salts Metronidazole Nitrofurantion Senna **ORANGE/ YELLOW** Heparin Rifampicin Warfarin **BLUE/GREEN** Amitriptyline Indomethacin Deferoxamine **RED** Phenytoin Senna ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-code-for-your-feces-kind-of-gross/206090/25 "2003-10-08T15:06:49Z")
**biddee’s** post is one true honest to goodness shit list. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smoke)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-code-for-your-feces-kind-of-gross/206090/26 "2003-10-08T16:27:17Z")
I almost rushed to the ER the first time I shat after realizing that I actually liked beets. This was maybe 6 months ago. Coincidentally, I think that’s the day my wife and I truly exited the “honeymoon” phase of our marriage. -j ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-code-for-your-feces-kind-of-gross/206090/27 "2003-10-08T16:31:28Z")
Clear jelly feces could mean either mucous or you’re gay and pooping out Vaseline. ---
**Author:** ![smootman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@smootman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smootman)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-code-for-your-feces-kind-of-gross/206090/28 "2003-10-08T16:42:22Z")
I prefer the post that it prevents your body from absorbing the fat. So, if you smoke pot, you should take these drugs… i honestly didn’t think there’d be this many posts and so much info on poop… i submitted this question to cecil at one time (as i have with everything i posted…)… ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-code-for-your-feces-kind-of-gross/206090/29 "2003-10-08T17:04:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BobLibDem \* > \*\*Clear jelly feces could mean either mucous or you’re gay and pooping out Vaseline. \*\* Why would someone be happy to poop Vaseline? 😃 **smootman** - run that by me again… ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-code-for-your-feces-kind-of-gross/206090/30 "2003-10-08T17:33:36Z")
Hey, you got butthole in my Vaseline! No, you got Vaseline in my butthole! ---
**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-code-for-your-feces-kind-of-gross/206090/31 "2003-10-08T23:58:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Omnipresent \* > \*\* Ever check out an infants shit? They must be eating algae or something! \*\* They’ve been drinking amniotic fluid in utero, the poop is meconium, there is no algae in the uterus, so there is no need for plecostomus or herbacides. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-code-for-your-feces-kind-of-gross/206090/32 "2003-10-09T03:09:27Z")
Once I pooped this lovely shade of blue-green. It freaked me out, but I felt fine, and it never happened again. I don’t know what I ate to cause THAT. As for baby poop, it’s not just meconium. Babies can produce a range of colors, as can the rest of us. Ick. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-code-for-your-feces-kind-of-gross/206090.md?page=1)