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What does it mean when you have a bowel movement; and it is a lime green color ?

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Dr. Antoanella Calame answered

Specializes in Pathology

Stool Color: 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 pigments travel through your gastrointestinal tract, they are chemically altered by enzymes which changes the pigments from green to brown.Food may be moving through the large intestine too quickly(diarrhea).So bile doesn't have time to break down.

Answered 10/23/2013

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