What makes poo green?

[Mike1234]

What makes poo green?

[Jansy]

Eating lots of grass!!!

[Mike1234]

post can be green.. i want to know why it can be green. I KNOW most poo is brown.. but it CAN be green. (not useual though) So why? what foods make it green? is it a medical thing? you know... why green?

[Mike1234]

sorry POO can be green not post! oops.

[spiff]

Red wine gives me this effect!

[drbsparks]

seeing tigger playing with roo and owl without him

[tigga]

i havent seen roo and owl !. back to the question though, a good long night on the beer usually helps.

[ll_billym]

I had a green poo once and I had drunk a lot of red wine and had mushy peas from the chippy.  I'm not joking it was a perfect shade of khaki.  Never had it since but it made me laugh at the time.

[Mike1234]

ahhh.. i see. yeah... red wine it is then. I couldnt figure out why my poo was green and i had red wine on friday! gotcha. Thankyou!

[thepheebster]

Why is poo brown tho when I don't eat any brown food?

[spudalicious]

Okay - all you ever wanted to know about sh*t but were afraid to ask... The gallbladder releases something called bile into the duodenum (just past the stomach) in order to help emulsify fats. The bile works by making the fat droplets smaller and so easier to absorb into the blood. The bile is made up of cholesterol, bile pigments (broken down from haemoglobin in the blood) and some other stuff.. The are two main pigments - bilirubin and biliverdin. Bilirubin is conjugated with glucuronic acid in liver cells and released into the gut. Some of this is reabsorbed into the liver and the rest undergo reactions by gut bacteria turning the conjugated bilirubin into urobilinogen. This is either reabsorbed and excreted by the kidneys (urine) or converted to stercobilin. The stercobilin is what makes the faeces brown. So, basically, varying levels of this alter the colour of the faeces. Bile by nature is green (biliverdin the other pigment has something to do with this and undergoes similar reactions to bilirubin).. basically, different colours are to do with different levels of pigment.. Different levels of pigment can be affected by different diseases, food, drinks... you name it..

 I'm a doc, work in GI - means I deal with sh*t everyday

[Marvin84]

oh spudalicious - we love it when you talk dirty!! :-) ....actually come to think of it ... no we don't!! ;-)

(very interesting and severly disturbing though!!)

[blink_182]

eating peas....lots and lots of peas.......

[spainlads]

I had it green 2 years ago. I had food poisoning from the office xmas bash. And it wasn't solid :(

[mimigreen]

new born babies have green poo too.