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If you have a stomach virus will it make your stool dark green or black?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Stool: Dark green can be due to rapid transit of feces through GI tract. If stool is black, tarry & malodorous that could represent a GI bleed & would warrant prompt medical evaluation.

Dr Altman and another doctor agreed

Answered 7/9/2017

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