Question 1

what makes up  feces?

Accepted Answer

Undigested food: After your intestinal track does its magic, extracting the nutritional and energetic elements from what you eat, then what is left over is concentrated in your colon and passes out as feces.  This is true throughout the animal kingdom.

Question 2

what makes long greenish feces?

Accepted Answer

Transit time: Eating green leafy vegetables can lead to green stool.  Green cabbage, lettuce, peas, cabbage, spinach, broccoli, green salad, green leaves, celery and green beans as well as food that contains green food coloring can lead to green stool. If the stool was loose, the reason for green stool could be too rapid a transit time in the gut.

Question 3

what causes feces to be green ish?

Accepted Answer

The amount of bile: Liver makes bile and secretes it to help us digest food stuffs.  Some food needs more bile to digest than others. Stools can be yellow, green, brown or dark brown. Call md if stool is white, black and sticky or red.

Question 4

why does my feces look like powder?

Accepted Answer

Get it checked out: Not sure but you should see your doctor and possibly get a stool test to make sure everything is ok.

Question 5

what can the color of feces tell you?

Accepted Answer

A lot, actually.: The usual brown color of stool is a result of your body breaking down the hemoglobin lost by dying red blood cells. If, for example, a patient were in liver failure, this breakdown would not occur and the stool would be much more pale in color. There are many other conditions which can change stool color. Not to mention, the body may struggle to absorb food colorings and dyes (think kids' cereal).

Question 6

who do some feces sink and some float?

Accepted Answer

Gas usually, occ. fa: Floating stool is usually due to gas; occasionally poor absorption of fat leads to fatty, greasy, pale, foul-smelling, yellowish, floating stools; not normal. Fatty stools seen with pancreatic deficiency, some bowel problems, e.g. Celiac disease, ileal disease from crohn's, etc.

Question 7

fatty feces in toilet - why does this happen?

Accepted Answer

Fatty stool: This could mean that you have fat malabsorption. If it persists you should have a gastroenterologist check it out.

Question 8

what can cause changes in the color of feces?

Accepted Answer

Stool color: The stool changes colors regularly depending on diet and other factors. The only time the stool color is abnormal is if it is black or red, which can indicate active bleeding and occasionally when it is very pale in color, when it can represent blockage of the bile duct. Any other color is just a variant of normal. Hope that helps.

Question 9

my feces came out like long rope, why is this?

Accepted Answer

Rope-like stool: The texture and length of stool varies with foods, speed of emptying of the GI tract, medications ; supplements ingested, gut flora (unique for each individual), additives (like blood), subtractions (like absent bile), infection/exposures, inflammation, other factors. Easy to run a few tests here--call your doc if your described bowel pattern is unusual for you &amp; persists.

Question 10

what is the definition or description of: feces?

Accepted Answer

Poop: Feces is the product of a bowel movement...Aka poop!

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