Stool color is generally influenced by what you eat as well as by the amount of bile — a yellow-green fluid that digests fats — in your stool. As bile travels through your digestive tract, it is chemically altered by enzymes, changing the colors from green to brown. Ask a healthcare professional if you're concerned about your stool color.
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Is it red or is it green? Learn more about what causes this common eye condition and how to tell whether you can distinguish between certain shades of color.
Indocyanine green injection is used to help diagnose or find problems in your blood vessels, blood flow and tissue perfusion before, during, and after a surgery or transplant, bile ducts, eyes during medical procedures (eg, ophthalmic angiography), or lymph nodes and lymph vessels in the breast, cervix, or uterus in women with solid tumors.
Green stool — when your feces look green — is usually the result of something you ate, such as spinach or dyes in some foods. Certain medicines or iron supplements also can cause green stool. Newborns pass a dark green stool called meconium, and breastfed infants often produce yellow-green stools.
Yellow-green. Your baby's poop may turn this color once the meconium stool has passed. Yellow. Breastfed newborns usually have seedy, loose stool that looks like light mustard. Yellow or tan. If you feed your newborn formula, your baby's poop might become yellow or tan with hints of green. It likely will be more firm than that of breastfed babies.
Color blindness is usually inherited, meaning it's passed down through families. Men are more likely to be born with color blindness. Most people with color blindness can't tell the difference between certain shades of red and green. Less commonly, people with color blindness can't tell the difference between shades of blue and yellow. Certain eye diseases and some medicines also can cause ...
Urine can turn green due to a medicine for pain and arthritis symptoms called indomethacin (Indocin, Tivorbex). Green urine also can be caused by propofol (Diprivan), a strong medicine that helps people sleep or relax before surgery. Health problems. A rare disease called familial benign hypercalcemia can cause children to have blue urine.
Call a healthcare professional if you or your child has green stool for more than a few days. Green stool often happens with diarrhea, so drink plenty of fluids and seek immediate medical attention if you or your child becomes dehydrated.
