What your POOP COLOR means | A gastroenterologist explains

I'm going through the colors of the rainbow to explain what different poop color means. Green poop, yellow poop, red poop, black poop, gray poop...there's an explanation for all the colorful stool.

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[AustinChiangMD]

Have you noticed weird colored poops? Keep it clean in the comments, friends!

[ashleyb]

I wish people would listen to their body more. The last year i have fought with doctors and having bowl issues well they told me it was all in my head, well i finally got amazing pmc and got sent to a gi doctor, i had my colonoscopy done and he found cancer, i was sent to lewis cancer center and within a week was told i have stage 3 colorectal cancer. I am 27 years yeara of age trying my best to figure out how to prove to insurance companies that there shouldn't be an age (45) to have a colonoscopy, i love watching your youtube because it is very educational and i love that! I know have a colostomy bag and here within a month will be having surgery. 2 weeks ago was the end of my radiation and chemo. I'm hoping and praying my colon can be saved! Keep up with the amazing educational video's.
Thank you,
Ashley

[vhickydejesus]

Thank you so much Dr. Chiang, please don't get tired making vlogs. Your site is so informative.

[OswaldDigestiveClinic]

Thanks for sharing on this topic! To add to this, a recent trend has been to do the blue poop challenge using blue-dyed muffins to determine colon transit time, which can indicate how healthy the gut is. These recipes, however, tend to have ingredients that are not great for gut health (sugar, refined wheat, food dyes, etc.). Instead, to check colon transit time, you can use organic corn or beets! Just consume 1/2 - 3/4 cup of either organic corn or beets. You will see corn in the stool because our bodies aren't able to break it down all the way. If you eat beets, you will see red in your stool! So write down the date and time that you start seeing the food in your stool, and the date and time that it stops. Then, figure out how much time is in-between those dates and times. Normal transit time is 12-24 hours!

[prasied]

I drank my dad drink that he makes and he put beet root in it I was so scared for a minute thank you lord for this guy

[sharonpurdue]

Thank you so much Dr. Chiang. Your clear description and knowledge of how the body functions regarding stool color has been very informative to me. I really trust you. Thanks again.

[Compguy]

I once had green / sort of blueish poop after eating cake with dark blue icing.

[josephsmth]

Can you make a video on gallbladder pain bloating and indigestion ?

[risingchamps]

This is educational and funny at the same time

[dennisbeaman]

A lot of grape koolaid and blue, purple dyed in cake icing as well as lots of grape soda will make your poo bright green.

[jasonphillis]

There is a popular ice cream shop near me that serves a Fruity bright blue ice cream that turned my poo blue for three days. It freaked me out so i never went back.

[angelnava]

I’ve been having bright green to blue stool for at least two weeks I don’t know if I should be worried lol

[Juggzbusy]

Dark Green can be caused by eating callaloo within a couple of days of eating. Always happens to me without failure

[KxNOxUTA]

Now that consistency chart was interesting! I had no idea constipated Looked like that. I thought constipated is when nothing comes out at all. I also haven't heard of half of the colors! How curious!

[iwantedtobethatanomaly]

I have light gray porridge-like stool and I am starting to feel extremely worried since it has been like this for weeks. Also my periods have stopped completely..

[muffin_head]

So, this is kinda weird- but I was eating a lot of candy- and about three-two days later [today] I did #2 and it was blue- and I ate purple rock candy. I’m not sure if this will help alot

[fallenstar]

Mine has been mostly yellowish and often thin for over a year. Went to colonoscopy but nothing was found. After that for 2 months everything suddenly back to normal but then changed back to yellow again.

[morritta]

I have cancer, but i dont know if cancer spread..i got green poop 5 days in a row. Im so worried.

[terrywise]

I love your animated way of talking - you are so engaging!

can certain foods affect the color of poop? like if someone consumes a lot of greens the stool can be green. no?

[Slowpw]

Hey, nice and informative poop talk!
the past month my poop has had a more light brown shade, not white or grey, but definitely lacking the "normal" brown shade. Does that mean I could have a problem with my bile production?