Medically reviewed by Jay N. Yepuri, MD Normal poop color is light to dark brown and often changes due to your diet.Green poop may result from dietary changes or food moving quickly through your ...

Fact: Everybody poops. For a topic that we typically don’t talk about outside of the bathroom and beyond stalls, people have questions, lots of questions: What is a normal bowel movement? How many ...

Last week, fans of the new Oreo Peeps discovered that eating a lot of the cookies—a vanilla shell with bright-pink filling—left them with an unexpected surprise in the toilet: pink poops. People can’t ...

New parents often worry about what they find in their baby’s diaper. It is normal to see a number of changes and colors in your baby’s stool as he or she grows. Boys Town Pediatrics explains what is ...

My receptionist Mandy came scurrying into the office: “Doctor, Mrs. Ferris is on the phone and she says she needs to bring her mother in right now because of a blue stool.” Sometimes I’m a little slow ...

An infant’s poop typically changes color and consistency during the first few days, weeks, and months of life. A wide range of colors is usual. In infants, the main reasons for changes in stool color ...

If your skin is looking a bit pale (which can occur in people of any skin tone), there’s usually a reason. It could be anything from a vitamin B12 deficiency to a symptom of anemia. The same is true ...

Poop can turn green for many reasons, such as a diet rich in high chlorophyll plants. Other possible causes include antibiotic use and bacterial infections. Poop is generally brown, but, at times, it ...

Stool is normally brown due to the processes and chemical reactions that take place in your gut during digestion. Some health conditions, foods, and medications may change stool’s color. Poop’s brown ...