So um, last 4 days or so every time I take a crap it comes out green. It's kinda like a moss green color I dunno, this doesn't seem too healthy to me. I don't feel sick but this has me concerned. I don't have medical insurance so a visit to the doctor will be difficult. Should I be worried or should I just wait awhile and hope it goes away?
lololol. see a doctor. failing that, its probably your diet
I don't think I've been eating anything different now then I've eaten for years. Basic bachelor food. I eat a lot of cereal and sandwiches, sometimes soup or boxed dinners (things like Tuna Helper). I went to a Brazillian restaraunt almost a week ago, except for that I eat pretty much the same every day.
We had a slushie machine at my old school and the blue kind would turn my poop green, like not green-tinted, totally solid grass green. So I wouldn't think it's a medical problem, but who knows.
EATING TOO MUCH BROCCOLI LOLOLOL
Have you been eating pennies? Copper turns green when oxidized...
I have consulted with a doctor, a physiologist and a microbiologist on this question, and the following summarizes their answers:
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