orange diarrhea Archives - Healthhype https://healthhype.com/tag/orange-diarrhea Current Health Articles on Symptoms, Diseases and Treatment Sun, 19 Feb 2017 18:15:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://healthhype.com/wp-content/uploads/logoicon.png orange diarrhea Archives - Healthhype https://healthhype.com/tag/orange-diarrhea 32 32 Orange Bowel Movement and Orange Diarrhea https://healthhype.com/orange-bowel-movement-is-it-normal.html https://healthhype.com/orange-bowel-movement-is-it-normal.html#comments Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:39:24 +0000 http://www.healthhype.com/?p=2066 There are various abnormal bowel movement colors that can occur with different conditions and foods. Green, black and even reddish stool may occur in some cases but orange is not a color typically associated with bowel movement or diarrhea. However, it can occur in some rare instances. It is important to understand what may be causing this change in stool color to determine whether it is a serious medical condition or not. Orange discoloration anywhere in the body is not common. For example, there may be a yellowish discoloration of the skin as in jaundice but most of the time we would not expect an orange hue to the skin. It can however occur like with tanning sprays and colorants (“fake tans”). In fact some of the causes of orange stool may also contribute to a yellow to orange hue of the skin. Normally stool is a brown color and varies from a tan hue to dark brown in color. This color is due to an accumulation of undigested food, wastes and other substances that are retained in the gut to be expelled with a bowel movement. One of the major contributors of the characteristic brown color of stool is [...]

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