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Is it normal to have light brown/whitish/dark green stools that are brown in the middle with ibs-c? the stools seem to be normal in shape
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Likely Normal: The color of one's stools vary with the length of time it takes for the waste matter to pass through your intestines; the longer it takes, the more time intestinal bacteria have to metabolize the pigments in the stools; so the progressions would be from green, to brown, to dark brown; the whitish color may be just some mucus;
Answered 12/1/2014
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