3 year old has GREEN poop- what could this be?

[Anonymous]

Op here. No the frosting was a white/cream vanilla and a vanilla white cake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In my kids (and myself) it usually comes from eating foods with a lot of dyes. Was the frosting a bright color?

I see cupcakes actually has a "simply red" cupcake this week. If he ate that it could be the culprit.

[Anonymous]

Two things: one, it could be just that it's moving through his system really fast. Poop is always green at the beginning of the bowel, and only turns brown as it moves down.

And second, you know that superman ice cream? With the vile bright yellow, blue, and red swirls? My kid ate that once (thanks, grandma!) and had the most alarming grass-green poop for two days. Think artificial coloring; not green, necessarily, but blue+yellow.

[Anonymous]

Blue food coloring? We all had bright green poop after cupcakes with blue frosting . . . .

[Anonymous]

For us its always blueberries or blue/green/purple frosting

[Anonymous]

I don't worry unless there's 2+ poops of alarming color/smell/texture. I don't think there is anything life-threatening that is only present as green poop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I pooped green from spinach once. Sure he hasn't eaten anything like that?

Me too.

[Anonymous]

Whenever my kids have a lot of sprinkles, frosting, that rainbow ice cream (not that they have those a ton but I do remember the occurrences because of the poop) they get bright green poop.

[Anonymous]

Do you give him vitamins? Iron can make poop look darker, which sometimes looks dark green to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Green poop is caused by blue dye (the type found in candy, popsickles, etc.) Even just a handful of tiny blue treats or a blue dum dum lollipop can make a little kid's poop green.

Good to know!

[Anonymous]

Yo, it's the blue from blueberries plus the yellow from mac n cheese.

Solved!

[Anonymous]

3.5 yr old DS has green poop almost daily. Ped doesn't think it's an issue, he eats lots of veggies. Also has a high metabolism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yo, it's the blue from blueberries plus the yellow from mac n cheese.

Solved!

OP here. This made me laugh!

No go though. DS only had maybe 2 or 3 blueberries, if even that. He often eats blueberries and mac and cheese, which doesn't result in green poop.

Sadly, my son does NOT eat vegetables. We're working on it, but it just doesn't happen (and we're vegetarians too). He does have a high metabolism and is tall and skinny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Green poop is caused by blue dye (the type found in candy, popsickles, etc.) Even just a handful of tiny blue treats or a blue dum dum lollipop can make a little kid's poop green.

Good to know!

Thanks so much! it was so scary to see vivid grass green poop. She's our first born and 2.5 yrs old. She had solar system themed cupcakes (dark frosting cupcakes) thanks for this!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Green poop is caused by blue dye (the type found in candy, popsickles, etc.) Even just a handful of tiny blue treats or a blue dum dum lollipop can make a little kid's poop green.

Yes. My kid has this after a birthday party. It was really alarmingly green. Did they have an EOY party at preschool?