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

[Anonymous]

It’s something he ate. It doesn’t have to be a lot. My youngest was particularly affected by food dye - my mom had made some red velvet cupcakes for Christmas when he was 2 or so, and just that bit of dye turned his poop bright orange. The rest of us were not affected.

[Anonymous]

Take a picture, so that if it doesn’t go away you can show the doctor. Gross but effective.

[Anonymous]

Teething? I remember my ds having an episode of green poop when he was having extreme drool from teething.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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!

Black food coloring does this too, like those black tortilla chips

They should really ban those food dyes for kid cupcakes!

[Anonymous]

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

So if the frosting and cake was actually white, there may have been a smidge of purple food coloring to get that really white color in cake and frosting (normal color is yellowish from butter)

[Anonymous]

Okay I can’t tell if there was dark frosting involved, but if there was, it’s that.

Pro tip: if you must have black frosting for some reason, start with chocolate frosting. The cocoa will reduce the amount of dye needed.

[Anonymous]

Too much sugar. My kids would get this when they had super colored ice cream from the ice cream shop. Spider man was a big offended when Baskin Robbins had it a few years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

So if the frosting and cake was actually white, there may have been a smidge of purple food coloring to get that really white color in cake and frosting (normal color is yellowish from butter)

This thread is from 10 years ago, just fyi.