What you ate is often to blame, but infections and medications can play a role, too.

There isn’t a one-size-fits-all answer for how often you should poop, but when it comes to what color your stool should be, expert consensus is much narrower. And deviations from it can be a cause for ...

Brown poop is normal and comes from a pigment called bilirubin. Green poop can happen from eating foods like spinach or from gastrointestinal infections or severe diarrhea. Black, tarry poop can mean ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's the day after St. Patrick's Day and your poop is green. Perhaps all that green beer wasn't such a good idea after all. Should ...

There isn’t a one-size-fits-all answer for how often you should poop, but when it comes to what color your stool should be, expert consensus is much narrower. And deviations from it can be a cause for ...

People go to many extremes to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but generating green stool shouldn't be one of them. Your morning trip to the bathrooom revealed you may have had one too many green beers ...

Rainbows, jelly beans, lip glosses…there are plenty of things we want to see in a spectrum of colors. Our stool, however, isn't one of them. The good news? Temporary variations in stool color are ...

Few things make new parents study something as closely—or as nervously—as the contents of a diaper. Whether you're changing your first newborn blowout or tackling your toddler's latest potty surprise, ...