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greenish stool. what does it indicate?

I'm having nocturnal fever since last night and I didn't defecate until today and it was greenish. what could be the reason why? I also have a cold and sore throat.

Update:

I haven't eaten veggies since like last week, i forgot to mention.

Update 2:

the stool is hard, no i'm not having cramping..

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  • 1 decade ago
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    poor diet, is the stool hard or soft, is it painful, is it accompanied with cramping, are you still having regular bowel movements??

    Green poop - a very non-specific sign - it just means that food is moving through too fast. The normal brown color seen in feces is the end product of breakdown of old red blood cells. The pigment goes through a green stage called biliverdin, before it becomes brown (called stercobilin). So if it is going through at an accelerated rate, it never breaks all the way down, and has a green color to it. Anything that accelerates passage of food or causes diarrhea can result in green color - ECE, rapid food changes, lymphoma, just about anything.

    Source(s): im a medic on shift and this is srtaight from the book hope it helps
  • 1 decade ago

    Sometimes if you eat alot of green veggies it can turn your stool green.

  • 1 decade ago

    An infection and that you should see a doctor sooner rather than later.

  • 1 decade ago

    Lack of appropriate vitamins.

    Take your vitamins, child!

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  • 1 decade ago

    you drank something blue.

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