You never *ask *to search the house.
BTW, MadPansy64, answer the door, someone sent you flowers!
I take iron daily because I am a gastric bypass patient. I know I take enough, because my levels are good, but because of the volume of water I drink, I don’t get constipated. It’s possible to have green poo from iron that isn’t rock hard.
Corn and or soy are in everything. Almost all prepackaged food haves one or both.
Common homemade meals are virtually absent of either.
Eat only non corn/soy products for several days. Then try some some.
Pay attention to that for a bit.
There is a certain blue food dye often found in artificially flavored grape things that will cause green poop. IIRC, the blue dye reacts with a yellow pigment in feces to cause the green color. It doesn’t seem likely that this is the culprit in your case, but you never know.
I just went to the kitchen to check. It’s Blue 1. I drink a grape-flavored drink that has this dye in it and it always makes my poop green. Grape soda will have the same effect.
Well, dammit. Someone just HAD to get all serious on me. Tofu isn’t a problem. Corn (tortillas, niblets, etc) aren’t a problem. HFCS might be. I don’t record non-alcohol drinks in my diary, so there is no verification. However, a large Sprite at lunch seriously altered the day’s poo-free plans, and that “other” brand of canadian bacon I used for NY Day breakfast lists it as an ingredient, but the “good” brand doesn’t.
I love this place! Where else could I ask a smart ass question about erratic green poo problems, and actually get a viable lead?
Sure, since you plowed the road to get here, c’mon in!
Eating bread doesn’t mean you don’t have a problem with gluten. After all, you do have issues at the end of your digestive system severe enough to post the question. That is, not everyone with a gluten issue has identical classic Celiac symptoms.
Wait, don’t we need a dean of medicine with inappropriate low-cut blouses to sign off on any house searches?
And whatever you do, don’t get an MRI.
I have inappropriately low cut blouses available for Richard Parker, **Rand Rover **or anyone else who will plow my damn road!
What’s so bad about an MRI? 
I’m missing out on a funny, aren’t I?
References to House, m’dear. Good luck on finding out what’s going on.
Thank you!
My niece had her gall bladder out at the age of 28. She said that bile makes your poop brown and when hers wasn’t, she knew something was up. I didn’t have the courage to ask what other color it was, however.
incidental wrote: I don’t like the whole gallbladder thing, because it doesn’t make sense to me why restaurant fat would trigger an episode and home-cooked fat wouldn’t.
I imagine restaurants use more fat than people who are cooking at home. They’re selling flavor over nutrition in many cases, whereas the home cook would be more careful.
Reading on a menu yesterday at East Side Mario’s, the amounts of fat and salt in the food were staggering. Yeah, it could be the difference between cooking at home and eating out - minimal fat that you control versus 35 grams of fat in a pasta dish (I kid you not - and that was BEFORE the salad dressing and garlic bread with butter! :eek:). Jim and I like to eat out, but man, we gotta find a way to do it without getting 500 grams of fat and 5,000 mg of salt in every meal!
Definitely look at HFCS…people who are even mildly IBS or IBD are often sensitive to it. Cut out sodas, especially, and syrups and such. You’d be amazed at the number of processed, restaurant foods that have it, but you don’t cook with it at all at home (unless you bake a lot of pecan pies, at any rate)…
Let us know how that checks out! (Guy with Ulcerative Colitis here, giving you advice - trust me, I KNOW about guts!)
May I suggest a postprandial snifter of brandy and sirop d’Ipécac?
Given the nature of the problem, I assumed the OP was holding out until St. Patrick’s Day.
Beer hurts when it comes out my nose.
Good one,** Tom**.
Is there any coorelation between the lactaid and your incidents? My daughter poops neon liqui-green when taking some medicines, but she is 3.
Not that the Dope is anxiously awaiting my poo details, but my GP (gotta love docs who love email!) was thrilled with my food diary. He also referred me to a semi-local poo specialist, who promptly requested a copy of my food diary and ordered a boatload of tests.
I’m apparently quite healthy, other than the green poo reaction to HFCS and vegetable fats together. Tentative Dx of IBD, orders to record even the boring details of my diet and mood, and another appointment in July.
Hmmph. So much for fame and fortune from malifecalis verde.
Dang, I was going to guess SOYLENT GREEN!