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What would cause green stool in a child?

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my child has symptoms of an irritable bowel. every couple of weeks or so and 3 of those times she has a green bowel movement. What would cause this?

 

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a natural diet. proper fiber.

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June 24 11:52 PM (11 minutes and 20 seconds later)
         
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Bile flows to the first part of the bowel in green color and change the color in brown in the large bowel. If stays very short time in large bowel such as if you have irritatable bowel syndrome not enough time to change color with the effect of the digestive enzyms so it comes out as a green stool. Also if you eat a lot of green vegetables or foods has green dye in it stool comes out green.

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June 25 12:57 AM (1 hour and 4 minutes and 59 seconds later)
         
Reply to V. Yetimyan   M.D.'s Post: Ok That explains some, and I thank you! Now, why would my daughters stool not be staying long enough to turn the usual brownish color? Her diet this last insident, was nothing like fresh vegies that day, but she did have an orange and a banana...Would she be eating too fast?Should I be concerned? She is only 8 years old and I hate to put her through the tests that go along with things like this if it isn't nesassary...She used to be worse, before we took out a lot of dyes and preservatives from her diet! The episodes were more frequent! and the pain more intense! I personally have closely watched, her and believe she has an irritable bowel. I was kidnapped at age 6 and had an irritale bowel my whole life, and attribute it to that happening in my life. My daughter has not had things easy emotionally.We just lost her dad whom she was very close with, after many years of him being very ill! I try to keep her dealing openly with her feelings about everything, and stay very close with her, so she doesn't hold things in that she shouldn't.Please let me know if something serious could be wrong with her, or have you seen this with IBS? Thanks so much!
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June 25 1:25 AM (27 minutes and 45 seconds later)
         
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Sometimes foods or drinks which does not look like green change the color of the stool to green . If green vegetables or other food dyes and food preservatives are not the cause then other conditions needs to be ruled out, that is any bowel conditions which gives diarrhea and increase the transit time in the large bowel such as Irritable bowel syndrome, Inflammatory bowel disease , Gastroenteritis or Stomach virus etc. You need a Pediatric Gastroenterologist to evaluate her and to find out if any kind of bowel disease causing fast transit time in the large bowel and making the stool look green.

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Edited by vyetimyan on June 25 2006 at 4:03 AM
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June 25 6:33 AM (5 hours and 8 minutes and 37 seconds later)
         
Reply to V. Yetimyan   M.D.'s Post: Thanks so much! I am very pleased with your replies! I haven been so upset and needing some answers. One more thing please? What would the routine a child specialist in this area do? Do they put the child to sleep for those tests that are so invasive?Thanks again!
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June 25 1:01 PM (6 hours and 27 minutes and 53 seconds later)
         
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