[Kathleen M.]

I'm wondering if maybe you are producing more bile than you can recycle.For some people calcium 300-600 mgs per meal seems to help (up to 3 meals a day).Exercise can get the colon going (long distance runners are the ones that get this the most).I assume you have seen the doctor??? One prescription option is Questran which also binds bile.K.

 

[Kathleen M.]

I'm wondering if maybe you are producing more bile than you can recycle.For some people calcium 300-600 mgs per meal seems to help (up to 3 meals a day).Exercise can get the colon going (long distance runners are the ones that get this the most).I assume you have seen the doctor??? One prescription option is Questran which also binds bile.K.

 

[Kathleen M.]

Mostly color doesn't mean that much...but bile is usually greenish or yellowish and can cause diarrhea.But it is not a 100% certainty. (sometimes grape juice or purple food colors can make green as well).Black and tarry is blood high up in the GI tract. Pepto can make the stools black as well.Coffee ground looking stool can be blood from the colon/small intestine.Normal stool color ranges from baby poop gold through greenish brown through dark brown...so it's not a good indicator of much.K.

 

[Kathleen M.]

Mostly color doesn't mean that much...but bile is usually greenish or yellowish and can cause diarrhea.But it is not a 100% certainty. (sometimes grape juice or purple food colors can make green as well).Black and tarry is blood high up in the GI tract. Pepto can make the stools black as well.Coffee ground looking stool can be blood from the colon/small intestine.Normal stool color ranges from baby poop gold through greenish brown through dark brown...so it's not a good indicator of much.K.