If your poop is light-colored, yellow, clay-colored, or very light brown, this may be a sign of: An infection or inflammation (swelling) in your gallbladder, liver, or pancreas.
Consult your health care provider if you're concerned about your stool color. If your stool is bright red or black — which may indicate the presence of blood — seek prompt medical attention. Food may be moving through the large intestine too quickly, such as due to diarrhea.
While many different digestive conditions share symptoms, black, tarry feces or throwing up coffee ground-like material is a good indication you may have gastritis.
Color: The stool may be bright red, maroon, or black and tarry, which indicates the presence of blood. Stools may contain more mucus than normal. Odor: The stool odor may be increasingly foul compared to the typical smell.
Yellow stool as a result of undigested fat also may occur with no symptoms. If present, the most common symptom associated with yellow stool will be abdominal pain as a result of chronic pancreatitis, tumor of the pancreas, or obstruction of the pancreatic duct.
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Malabsorption can happen due to Crohn's disease. Learn more about the symptoms of malabsorption here. If the foul smelling yellow stools are floating in the toilet bowl, this may indicate fat malabsorption specifically.
If your liver doesn't make bile normally or if the flow from the liver is blocked, your poop will look pale like the color of clay. Pale poop often happens along with yellow skin (jaundice). The extra bilirubin that makes your skin look yellow also can make your pee unusually dark.
Typically, healthy poop colour should range from light to dark brown. The brownish colour results from broken-down red blood cells and stomach bile mixing, indicating that your digestive system is functioning correctly.
Your stool should be clear, yellow, light and liquid. The presence of dark particles or thick brown or black stool means you are not ready for colonoscopy. If your stool is not clear after taking your entire bowel prep agent, you may need additional prep agent.
Important Points. Lower GI bleeding presents bright red blood per rectum or maroon blood and rarely as black tarry stools. Sometimes blood can be invisible and present as anemia. It can occur with or without pain, can be mild or severe.
Anxiety does not specifically affect the color of stool, but it can affect how food moves through the digestive tract. There are several ways that anxiety affects digestion, increasing the risk of yellow feces. Anxiety is also linked to IBS, which can cause yellow stool.
Steatorrhea means that you have excessive amounts of fat in your poop. Fatty poops are different from normal poops. They tend to be looser, smellier and paler in color, like clay. They might float.
Stools that are pale, clay, or putty-colored may be due to problems in the biliary system. The biliary system is the drainage system of the gallbladder, liver, and pancreas.
In the later stages of cirrhosis, you may vomit blood or have tarry, black stools. This is because blood can't flow through the liver properly, which causes an increase in blood pressure in the vein that carries blood from the gut to the liver (portal vein).
A person may notice that their stools are very hard or come out in small clumps. Blood in the stool: Anal fissures or constipation may cause traces of red blood in the stools. Dark, tarry stools indicate that a person may be bleeding higher in the gastrointestinal tract, which is a medical emergency.
If you have ulcerative colitis, you might see blood and mucus in your poop when you have a flare-up. It shows up most often in very loose, watery stools. This bloody diarrhea tends to happen with belly cramps, a sudden urge to have a bowel movement, and sometimes fever.
If you have IBS with diarrhea, you will have frequent, loose, watery stools. You may have an urgent need to have a bowel movement, which may be hard to control. If you have IBS with constipation, you will have a hard time passing stool, as well as fewer bowel movements.
Watery, usually nonbloody diarrhea — bloody diarrhea usually means you have a different, more severe infection. Nausea, vomiting or both. Stomach cramps and pain.
Frequent bowel movements, light-colored stools, and dark-colored urine can all be signs of gallbladder problems. Light-colored stools especially are a sign that gallstones are blocking the bile ducts; the light color is a result of a lack of bile in the stool.
Symptoms of acute cholecystitis include:
Sharp pain or cramps in the upper right side of the abdomen. Abdominal pain which spreads to the back or below the right shoulder blade. Clay colored stools. Steady pain which lasts at least 30 minutes.
If you have cirrhosis and experience the following, call 911: Your poop (stools) are black and tarry or contain blood (may be maroon or bright red in color). You are vomiting blood. The whites of your eyes are turning yellow.
Yellow stool may be caused by: Bacterial, viral, or parasitic infections that may be causing malabsorption. One of the most common is giardiasis (also called giardia infection), caused by a microscopic waterborne parasite.
Well, here is a brief answer: peanut butter-colored poop is normal. It is neither an indication of illness nor any underlying medical condition. It is perfectly normal unless it is accompanied by diarrhea, pain when pooping, abdominal cramps, poop floating, or bleeding.