Oct 10, 2024 · Stool color is generally influenced by what you eat as well as by the amount of bile — a yellow-green fluid that digests fats — in your stool. As bile travels through your digestive …

Jul 3, 2025 · Stool gets its typical brownish color from bile, which flows into the small intestine during the digestive process. If the liver doesn't produce bile or if bile gets stuck in the liver, …

Jan 26, 2024 · Yellow, mushy stool is perfectly healthy for breastfed babies. Still, there are many shades of baby poop. Here's a color-by-color guide for parents of newborns: Black or dark …

May 30, 2024 · But you should talk to a healthcare professional if you notice an increased amount of mucus in stool. This is especially true if it begins happening regularly or if you also notice …

Jan 11, 2024 · Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) also may cause changes in the size of your stools. IBS can cause stools to be smaller, larger or narrower than usual. It also causes changes in …

Jul 8, 2005 · Green stool — when your feces look green — is usually the result of something you ate, such as spinach or dyes in some foods. Certain medicines or iron supplements also can …

Jul 18, 2025 · A feeling that the bowel doesn't empty all the way during a bowel movement. Pain in the back, buttocks or legs. In stage 4 colon cancer, other symptoms may happen, …

Feb 1, 2025 · Description Lactulose is used to treat constipation. It helps increase the number of bowel movements per day and the number of days on which bowel movements occur in …

Oct 13, 2023 · Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). This includes ulcerative colitis, which causes swollen tissues and sores in the colon and rectum. Another form of IBD, Crohn's disease, …

Apr 15, 2025 · Constipation is usually treated with changes in diet and exercise or with nonprescription medicines. Constipation may require medicines, changes in medicines or …