i have two daughters.. 6 months and a three year old.. both their poos are green!! they haven't had eaten anything green.. any clues as to why this is happening?
no silly answers please.....thanks
2007-01-19 22:11:36 · 12 answers · asked by kodapia 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Toddler & Preschooler
There are LOTS of reasons explaining why their poo is green; but NONE of them mean that your children are sick. Green is actually a healthy color of poop! They may be getting more iron than usual, they may have eaten or drank something with a food additive, or food coloring. Every time my daughter would drink the purple Pedialyte, her poop would be a neon green! It turned out that it was one of the food colorings in the drink. I wouldn't worry about it though. Green, yellow, brown - are all healthy colors of poo. If it's black or gray or there is blood in their stools, then it's time to worry. I hope this helps!
2007-01-19 22:37:42 · answer #1 · answered by niccichick 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Healthy people can have green poop if they eat a diet rich in leafy green vegetables, or if they consume large quantities of food coloring (in ice cream, cake frosting etc.).
Green poop can also be caused by excess iron in the diet, from dietary supplements, for example. If the body does not absorb all the iron consumed, the iron may stain the poop green, the color of iron (II) salts. Ordinarily, the green color may be masked by the normal brown poop color, but if digestion is thrown off by illness so that bilirubin is less concentrated in the intestine, the green color may become apparent. This can happen when a person is afflicted with diarrhea.
Green poop in sick babies may come from iron in baby formula not being properly absorbed, or by green pigments in bile salts (again, green from iron).
http://www.heptune.com/poop.html
Or maybe did they eat something blue? Cause blue and yellow make green.
2007-01-19 22:18:18 · answer #2 · answered by jade_143 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
has she had any blue or eco-friendly foodstuff colouring these days? if so she might purely have eco-friendly poo because of this, if not she might have purely slightly an infection and a visit to the docs may be so as. Dont tension in spite of the undeniable fact that!! sturdy success!!
2016-10-07 10:49:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Green Poop Baby
2016-11-04 22:01:41 · answer #4 · answered by munley 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless it is foul smelling and diarreah, green poop is a normal variation.Green leafy veges, iron rich foods can make colour changes too.
2007-01-19 23:09:37 · answer #5 · answered by BeeMay 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A person's diet is reflected in the color of their feces. Green may indicate consumption of vegetables fortified with iron.
2007-01-19 22:36:19 · answer #6 · answered by Teddy Bear 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
More then likely it's bacteria from the intestines that made it that color. There really isn't anything to worry about unless it remains consistent and is diahrea.
2007-01-19 22:18:23 · answer #7 · answered by **systematic_girl** 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was always told it means they have tooo much iron in their system. They should not be drinking tooo much milk. Try giving them water or juice.
2007-01-20 11:05:48 · answer #8 · answered by Sassy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't have to be that they ate something green, it could be licorice, or a food additive. Or possibly they ate a green something when you weren't looking.
2007-01-19 22:15:36 · answer #9 · answered by Corrine L 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Maybe they drank cool aid or Gatorade.
2007-01-19 22:41:53 · answer #10 · answered by jess 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋