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2:03 pm
March 4, 2009
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Dear jedstone,
What a wonderful diet you are providing for your child! Sounds like our house!
The green stool sounds likely diet-related to me – chlorophyll can definitely turn poop green!
However, since we never want to guess with our children's health, we have to be aware that another cause of green stool can be increased transit time with diarrhea, not permitting the green bile to change to the normal brown color. Although you mentioned 3-6 movements daily, you didn't mention diarrhea, so that doesn't sound like the issue. Iron can also cause a stool to turn green. Bacterial overgrowth and malabsorption can create green too. There are other conditions as well.
Of course, this is just an email forum. It sounds as though you have been on a health journey with your son leading to this point. I'm sure you've considered a stool culture, just to make sure everything's good. A Comprehensive Stool Analysis is also an excellent tool to get a baseline as to what's happening in the gut environment. I discuss that toward the top of this Forum under my recommended tests.
I hope this helps,
Brenda Watson
3:45 pm
January 18, 2012
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I am new to the group. Your approach to healthy living and healthy guts is very much in line with the way my wife, son and I do things. Our 6 year old son consistently has green (some darker, some lighter) colored stool. 3-6 bowel movements per day. They tend to be generally formed or as my wife calls it, the consistently of soft serve ice cream. A little background: our son is on a very strict and consistent diet consisting of 80% vegetables (organic zucchini, squash, brocolli, spinach with cilantro and garlic for flavoring; all lightly steamed and topped with olive oil or coconut oil) and 20% protein (organic chicken or wild caught Coho or Sockeye Salmon). He takes an array of supplements probably too involved to mention right now and also takes digestive enzymes regularly as well as HCL. His primary snack is a home made flax seed cracker (we have an Excaliber dehydrator) with brown flax, pureed zucchini, olive oil, salt, almond butter and basil). I would love to hear your thoughts on what may be causing the green stools. Thanks in advance!
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