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Gray stool
Gray stools is a symptom in which there is not enough yellow, brown, or green color in the stool, meaning that there is not enough bile (from the liver and gall bladder) in the stool. Gray stools can be due to a blockage in the flow of bile into the intestine.
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A 38-year old asked:
What causes gray stool?
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A 32-year old asked:
Why am I having gray stool all of a sudden?
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A 22-year old female asked:
Is a partially gray stool something to be concerned about? This is the first time I saw gray stool. The stool was mostly brown but a portion of it was gray?
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A 32-year old asked:
Would iron cause dark gray stool?
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A 23-year old female asked:
What does dark green or gray stools means?
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A 30-year old female asked:
My 2months old is having gray stool and he's uncomfortable.?
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A female asked:
My 3y/o daughter have been passing watery yellow stool or a firm but soft beige color like stool. But today she had a loose gray stool.whats wrong?ty
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A female asked:
Hi, I've been taking famotidine for about 2 weeks and am having white/ very light gray stools. Should I be concerned, or is this a side effect of pill?
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A 78-year old female asked:
What does it mean when you have a gray stool? I take 325mg daily of ferrous sulfate (iron) so the stool is usually black. It has been gray for about a week.
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A member asked:
What does it mean when you have gray stool? I have had 2-3 abnormal bowel movements in the past few days, mainly gray stool. What does that mean?
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A 36-year old male asked about a male:
My 1-year-old daughter has had 2-3 whitish/gray stools in the last 2-3 days. No jaundice, eating normally, normal energy, no apparent distress. ER?
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A 46-year old female asked:
I have fatty liver disease, and gray colored stools, and when I press on my liver barely it hurts soooooo bad, what could be causing the pain?
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A 23-year old female asked:
My 3 month old has gray colored stool he also has dark yellow urine be a problem with his liver I have not changed his diet i'm strictly breastfeeding?
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A 32-year old female asked about a male:
My 3 year old has had 2 dark gray clay like stools today. Should I be concerned? I feel as if I should just take him to the ER.
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A 20-year old male asked:
I have flat stool all the time since last month.Also theres some black/gray spots in stool.I also have 3 bumps in anal canal.Doctor did proctoscopy and said hypertrophic anal papile.I also did Colonoscopy everything fine.now is it anal cancer?.I m 20?
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A 16-year old female asked:
I have been experiencing black/dark gray spots in my stool. I had a stool test done last year, but it came out negative. What could this mean? I am 16
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A 58-year old male asked:
Stool is gray. No other symptoms. No pain. Skin and eyes are a good color.
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A 19-year old female asked:
My stools are brown and gray. What could cause that?
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A 44-year old asked:
What to do if I have about 5-6 bm's a day! I have noticed now that my stool is like a dark gray/green. is that normal?
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A 42-year old asked:
My 15 month boy's stool has been light gray (clay like) for about 4 days now, what can be the cause of this? And what should I do? Thnx
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A 18-year old male asked:
My stool was a whitish gray for about 18 hours and now has turned to a grayish yellow. What could be the cause?
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A 40-year old male asked:
My stools are somtimes covered with a white/gray colored muscus with the present of small specs of blood. What could this be?
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A 43-year old male asked:
I read about clay colored stools. As clay comes in various colors, im wondering what is meant by this in the medical world? White, gray or tan? What exactly is meant by clay colored? Thanks?
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A 52-year old female asked:
What does it mean to have light colored stool? What color do they actually mean? Is it gray or white, or is light gold also a concern?
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A 25-year old male asked:
I ate 35mg oxycodone/acetominaphine and my stool was whitish gray, is this normal? I had another site say it was normal, just wanted conformation
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A 37-year old male asked:
Ounce in a while my stool is brown with gray in it . But the next stool is all brown . Should this be something to worry about . Not taking antacids?
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A member asked:
Is it ok that an infant stool is pale yellow after 3 days it turned gray. He is 4 months and a half old. Is it ok? Thank you
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A 16-year old female asked:
Green urine and half grey stool? I have peed green for quite some time now and recently my stool is gradually getting grayer. Is it my constipation?
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A 33-year old female asked:
I had a weird, small, gray pod like structure in my stool. On one side the point was black. Otherwise the stool looks normal, but I have had more bloating lately. I also took anti-parasitic medication a few months ago in January. Any thoughts?
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A 23-year old male asked:
Had a bowl movement, wiped and it was kinda darkish or gray streak of blood or something. Looked at stool and could see it half solid and the rest looked like specks or undigested food. Had squid the day before. No pain or anything?
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