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A member asked:

During colon prep with golytely- im clear now but have black tissue particles coming out of me what is that?!? that's not normal. its not stool.

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Could be food: Sometimes vegetable matter can come out with a bowel prep such as spinach, etc that may look like black "tissue particles".

Answered 4/6/2013

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