# Green Feces? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 13, 2000, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-feces/10327 "2000-04-13T14:59:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Surgoshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Surgoshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surgoshan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-feces/10327/1 "2000-04-13T14:59:00Z")
The damndest thing. Took a, uh, pinched a loaf and when I stood up it was green! A merry, festive green! Well, as festive as green shit can get, I suppose. Should I be worried? * * * I sold my soul to Satan for a dollar. I got it in the mail. ---
**Author:** ![Myndephuquer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@Myndephuquer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myndephuquer)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-feces/10327/2 "2000-04-13T15:04:00Z")
You’re probably already dead. You should have told us where to send the flowers. ---
**Author:** ![Myndephuquer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@Myndephuquer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myndephuquer)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-feces/10327/3 "2000-04-13T15:07:00Z")
It’s probably just something you ate, or the result of taking medication. Have you been taking any decongestants or anything else out of the ordinary? Have you put anything out of the ordinary (for normal people) in your butt? ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-feces/10327/4 "2000-04-13T15:07:00Z")
That happened to me once before, But I pinned it on the 5 bowls of fruit-loops I ate while baked the night before. ## Have you eaten anything with a lot of food coloring in it recently? That movie taught me some important lessons in life. 1. I can build a robot that loves me. 2. I can reanimate my dead girlfriend by jamming bits of metal and silicon into her skull. Both are lessons I use on a daily basis… ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-feces/10327/5 "2000-04-13T15:11:00Z")
Don’t worry about it. It happens to my son sometimes. He seems fine, so I wouldn’t look if I were you! ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-feces/10327/6 "2000-04-13T16:09:00Z")
Spinach? By the way, have you been “verting” a lot? ---
**Author:** ![Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilligan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-feces/10327/7 "2000-04-13T16:17:00Z")
Yet another great band name. ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-feces/10327/8 "2000-04-13T16:18:00Z")
That happened to me once also, but it was after I ate a big bowl of chocolate Jello pudding. Was sort of alarming, but I didn’t feel bad or anything. I guess if it starts to be a regular occurrence then maybe you should worry… ---
**Author:** ![kbutcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/db5fbb/32.png) [@kbutcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kbutcher)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-feces/10327/9 "2000-04-13T16:34:00Z")
Bile, I believe, is what causes your feces to be brown. If for some reason you aren’t producing enough, it comes out green. Food coloring can also cause this. Don’t ask me what makes your feces green, but that seems to be the most common color when bile is missing. ---
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-feces/10327/10 "2000-04-13T16:34:00Z")
Back in the 80s there was this cereal called kaboom. It looked like the colors were sprayed on. I had one bowl of it, and that evening I pooped in technicolor. I promptly threw the rest away! * * * VB I’ve performed a complete diagnosis of your car. It’s broken. - A Wally original! ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-feces/10327/11 "2000-04-13T16:59:00Z")
I’ve had this condition once. It happened during a very bad case of stomach flu. My doctor said that my liver functions were a bit off (which is why I felt really bad). It went away. If it keeps up, I would get it checked out. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Armageddon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@Mister\_Armageddon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Armageddon)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-feces/10327/12 "2000-04-14T05:01:00Z")
I believe Al Bundy referred to this as a “green meat attack.” * * * Mr. Armageddon “Just when you thought you had all the answers, I went and changed the questions!”–Roddy Piper ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-feces/10327/13 "2000-04-14T05:08:00Z")
For some unexplicable reason, drinking purple stuff (grape soda, grape juice, etc.) does the same thing to me. * * * “Smithers, release the hounds.” -C. Montgomery Burns ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-feces/10327/14 "2000-04-14T05:10:00Z")
Iron supplements can cause it to turn a very dark forest green. Are you taking an iron supplement of some kind? It doesn’t have to be a prescription-strength horse pill; even something over-the-counter will do it. A regular multi-vitamin already has your minimum daily requirement of iron in it, so if you take additional iron, you get the green color. * * * “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!” - the White Queen ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-feces/10327/15 "2000-04-14T05:11:00Z")
I’m no specialist in verdant turds but feel pretty confident in stating that your feces may turn light or clay coloured, even white, when your liver’s not working, but not green. My daughter once ate some blue powdered candy stuff that turned her feces blue (If she had bent over at the time, I’d have said it happened only once in a blue moon). ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-feces/10327/16 "2000-04-14T05:15:00Z")
In college my friends and I all went to the same party, where they had a garbage can full of grain punch, got snockered, and all pooped green the following day. As many of my fellow party-throwers were fond of grain punch (it made the carpets so festive looking) this phenomenon was repeated often enough that it was widely accepted that something in the punch mix made one’s poop turn green. But on the heels of BobT’s testimonial, I wouldn’t rule out faulty livers as the culprit, either. ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-feces/10327/17 "2000-04-14T05:27:00Z")
The green feces really freaked me out, but the doctor didn’t seem very excited. On a related disgusting note, I’ve started to get blood-streaked boogers. I went to my doctor in a panic. He looked in my nose and said, “Yeah, so.” Just some torn capillaries. The prescribed treatment was “Come back if you start bleeding all over the place.” ---
**Author:** ![labradorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@labradorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/labradorian)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-feces/10327/18 "2000-04-14T05:40:00Z")
EVERYBODY! “Sometimes he’s nutty, sometimes he’s corny He can be brown or greenish-brown.” ## Puffed wheat, eaten in sufficient quantities, does it to me. Nice slatey colour. Very attractive, for poo. **Dee da dee da dee dee do do / Dee ba ditty doh / Deedle dooby doo ba dee um bee ooby / Be doodle oodle doodle dee doh** [http://members.xoom.com/labradorian/](http://members.xoom.com/labradorian/) ---
**Author:** ![ubermensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bcef8e/32.png) [@ubermensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ubermensch)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-feces/10327/19 "2000-04-14T05:51:00Z")
to add to the list of foods-that-make-you-poop-green (which could be a really useful list), eating a whole bag of blue raspberry fruit twists (a cheap knock off of twizzlers). that, and it plugged me up for a while. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-feces/10327/20 "2000-04-13T18:11:00Z")
Heh. From time to time I get an email asking how I deal with the abuse sometimes heaped on moderators. I’m gonna start responding, “You think _that’s_ abuse? You should see some of the threads I have to read!” 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-feces/10327.md?page=2)