My 7yr old has green poo!

[tigwig]

She says it has been like this since last Thurs but not everytime. I saw it tonight for the first time and it did have a green tint to it. Any ideas what this could mean? I know babies get green poo when they are teething but this doesnt carry on with adult teeth does it?!

[B00]

Can't believe I went Googling "Green poo", lol, however Wiki suggested....

. A "green" stool is from rapid transit of feces through the intestines (or the consumption of certain blue or green food dyes in quantity),

[cazzz1975]

she might be coming down with something, there are a lot of virus's going around at the minute

[erin-x]

Just about the food colourings.. after eating my cousins birthday cake which was covered in blue butter icing, my brother was sick. As you can imagine it was a lovely blue colour and the next day he thought it was a nice idea to tell us that it was quite blue at the other end as well.

So I can second the food colouring suggestion.

[237SJ]

I noticed that when I went on the Atkins diet. I put it down to the increase in green veg that I was eating but I think it can happen when you eat too much fibre and everything goes through you too quickly. Has her diet changed at all?

[seadogg]

In dogs it indicates that the animal is not fully digesting its food according to our vet. Maybe the same with humans.

[tigwig]

Theres been no change in her diet and she definitely hasnt eaten anything that would make it green. She did have hand, foot and mouth disease a couple of weeks ago and has complained of a sore throat on and off too so maybe it could be a virus?

[Sqad]

No big deal.....it is dietary........excess vegetable or perhaps iron.

Forget it!

[tigwig]

Lol it won't be too much veg! She does eat some but definitely not to excess.

[boxtops]

what's hand foot and mouth disease, tigwig? I've only ever heard of foot and mouth in animals - what is it?

[Mamyalynne]

http://www.nhs.uk/con...ges/Introduction.aspx

[tigwig]

Bloody horrible illness boxtops. The worst I've seen my toddler (who of course caught it off her) and thats saying something. He literally screamed for a whole 24 hr period at its worst and was ill for a week before that and a few days after. Then 2 of the kids I mind for got it too and were equally as ill. Only my daughter was ok, and just had the blisters in mouth.