Causes of a Green Bowel Movement
Food
Green bowel movement may be normal for a person that ingests a lot of:
- Green leafy vegetables like broccoli, lettuce, spinach, cabbage
- Black licorice
- Baby formula – vegetable mashes
- Artificial colors, commonly added to ice creams, soda, fruit juices, or other drinks, morning cereals, milk products, sweets, etc.
- Iron-rich foods like enriched breakfast cereals, red meat, spinach, beans, etc.
Dark green color may persist for up to five days after ingesting above mentioned foods. Supplements or artificial colors may give bright green color to the stool.
In infants, stool is green in first days after delivery, and later due to breastfeeding. Some baby formulas can also give green color to infant stool.
Children on clear-liquid ”starvation diet” during illness may have green watery stools.
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