Which means that your shit is green

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Updated January 5, 2015.

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It may be disturbing to see green stool (faeces or other strange looking) in the bathroom, but there are some reasons why you come. These are some of the most common causes of concern and green shit.

The liver secretes a bright green liquid called bile into the small intestine, where it is concentrated and stored in the gallbladder.

Bile plays a role in the emulsification of the absorption and digestion of fats and fat soluble vitamins. It helps soften the stool and is responsible for granting the characteristic brown feces. Bile helps alkalize tract. It consists of bile salts, cholesterol, phospholipids, bilirubin and electrolytes.

As bile,. His way through the small intestine and the large intestine through the bile ducts, gradually the color changes from green to yellow to brown, due to the action of bacteria in the colon in bile salts

Green chair often indicates that the food passes through the gut faster than normal (reduced call colon runtime) before it will be changed from green to brown. Intestinal transit to reduce diarrhea time so any condition that causes diarrhea can cause green stools.

The conditions that can cause green chairs include:

In some cases, a soluble fiber in the diet increased transit time to slow down. You can soluble fiber naturally in foods such as oats, legumes (peas and other legumes), rye, barley, some vegetables and fruits (prune juice, prunes, bananas, fruit, carrots, to receive apples inside and bulbs, tubers, psyllium.

See also natural remedies for diarrhea for three approaches diarrhea naturally.

Foods, dyes, supplements can cause green stools are:

• Spinach, cabbage and other vegetables
• Blueberries
• Fruit and vegetable juices or during fasting.
• Green or violet dye mixed drinks, frozen, icing on the cake, blue Gatorade, fruit snacks and other packaged food pallets.
• Grape flavor Pedialyte can turn bright green chair.
• Foods that contain the green pigment chlorophyll, can also cause temporary green chairs, including seaweed and herbs such as wheat grass, spirulina, barley grass, algae and Chlorella.
• Dietary supplement, chlorophyll in the form of coal dust contained.
• Iron supplements and iron-enriched products, including baby food are another cause of green feces.

If these foods, dyes, supplements are eliminated from the diet, the chair should return to its normal color within a day.

First chair of a baby are colored green-usually black. This is called "meconium" - not to be seen after the child was three days old.

Note that you always discuss with your doctor any symptoms or health problems, including changes in bowel movements.

SEE ALSO: loose stools | Floating stools | dark or bright red stools | pellet mucus stool | Stool | More Poop colors explained

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