{"id":50056,"date":"2025-04-25T21:21:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T01:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hancockhealth.org\/mayo-health-library\/stool-color-when-to-worry\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T11:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:40:14","slug":"stool-color-when-to-worry","status":"publish","type":"mayo","link":"https:\/\/www.hancockhealth.org\/fr\/mayo-health-library\/stool-color-when-to-worry\/","title":{"rendered":"Stool color: When to worry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container mx-auto   wordpress-block wordpress- core-\">\n<p>Stool comes in a range of colors. All shades of brown and even green are considered typical. Only rarely does stool color indicate a possibly serious intestinal condition.<\/p>\n<p>Stool color is generally influenced by what you eat as well as by the amount of bile &mdash; a yellow-green fluid that digests fats &mdash; in your stool. As bile travels through your digestive tract, it is chemically altered by enzymes, changing the colors from green to brown.<\/p>\n<p>Ask a healthcare professional if you&#8217;re concerned about your stool color. If your stool is bright red or black &mdash; which may indicate the presence of blood &mdash; seek medical attention right away.<\/p>\n<table summary=\"Stool color and possible dietary causes\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Stool quality<\/th>\n<th>What it may mean<\/th>\n<th>Possible dietary causes<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Green<\/td>\n<td>Food may be moving through the large intestine too quickly, such as due to diarrhea. As a result, bile doesn&#8217;t have time to break down completely.<\/td>\n<td>Green leafy vegetables, green food coloring, such as in flavored drink mixes or ice pops, iron supplements.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Light-colored, white or clay-colored<\/td>\n<td>A lack of bile in stool. This may indicate a bile duct blockage.<\/td>\n<td>Certain medicines, such as antacids with aluminium hydroxide, large doses of bismuth subsalicylate (Kaopectate, Pepto-Bismol), other antidiarrheal drugs, and barium, which is used in X-rays.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Yellow, greasy, foul-smelling<\/td>\n<td>Excess fat in the stool, such as due to a malabsorption condition, for example, celiac disease.<\/td>\n<td>Fatty foods such as deep-fried foods, and sometimes the protein gluten, such as in breads and cereals.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Black<\/td>\n<td>Bleeding in the upper gastrointestinal tract, such as the stomach.<\/td>\n<td>Iron supplements, bismuth subsalicylate (Kaopectate, Pepto-Bismol), black licorice.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Bright red<\/td>\n<td>Bleeding in the lower intestinal tract, such as the large intestine or rectum, often from hemorrhoids.<\/td>\n<td>Red food coloring, beets, cranberries, tomato juice or soup, red gelatin, or drink mixes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stool color is usually a result of diet and is only rarely a concern.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[1685,1682,1684],"class_list":["post-50056","mayo","type-mayo","status-publish","hentry","tag-condition","tag-person-group-concept","tag-theme-of-focus","content_type-answers"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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