yellow diarrhea Archives - Healthhype https://healthhype.com/tag/yellow-diarrhea Current Health Articles on Symptoms, Diseases and Treatment Mon, 01 Oct 2018 23:57:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://healthhype.com/wp-content/uploads/logoicon.png yellow diarrhea Archives - Healthhype https://healthhype.com/tag/yellow-diarrhea 32 32 Yellow Bowel Movement and Causes of Yellow Diarrhea https://healthhype.com/yellow-bowel-movement-cause.html https://healthhype.com/yellow-bowel-movement-cause.html#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:32:58 +0000 http://www.healthhype.com/?p=2022 The color of the normal bowel movement is any shade of brown (ranging from a light bown or tan to darker brown hue). When stool appears a very light brown to yellow brown or even overtly yellow then it needs to be assessed further. Yellow stool does not always indicate a problem. Sometimes consuming foods and beverages with a strong yellow color/dye can taint the stool a yellow color if the dye is not digested or altered as it moves through the bowel. The characteristic brown color of stool is largely due to red blood cell breakdown in the body and the activity of the liver. When red blood cells are broken down, as part of the normal life cycle of these cells, the pigments within it are processed by the liver yielding a substance known as bilirubin. It has a characteristic yellow color but is converted to a brown color within the bowel. Without this contribution, stool may be a range of different colors depending on the food that was last consumed and may be significantly paler or even whitish in color without the contribution of the liver. The other contributor to this brown color is the bacteria that naturally reside [...]

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