GREEN POOP (sorry, TMI...lol...but seriously, I need to ask about this)

[Creekimp13 5,841]

I'm on day 6 of my pre-op liquid diet. I'm surprised I'm pooping at all, since all I'm eating is Jello, broth, fluids and Protein Drinks (and 100 calories of cream of wheat per day).

Recently, I've started having greenish, kinda loose bowel movements. This was pretty alarming to me, cause I've always been told to associate green poo with infection.

However, I've done some searches of different bariatric sites and found several people reporting the same weird green poo.......typically around day 6! At one of the sites, a doctor responds that this isn't a problem. Could be caused by bile and vitamins...and that it's fairly common.

Has anyone else experienced the alien poo during the liquid diet?

[Debbie9966 36]

I'm on day 6 of my pre-op liquid diet. I'm surprised I'm pooping at all, since all I'm eating is Jello, broth, fluids and Protein drinks (and 100 calories of cream of wheat per day).
Recently, I've started having greenish, kinda loose bowel movements. This was pretty alarming to me, cause I've always been told to associate green poo with infection.
However, I've done some searches of different bariatric sites and found several people reporting the same weird green poo.......typically around day 6! At one of the sites, a doctor responds that this isn't a problem. Could be caused by bile and vitamins...and that it's fairly common.
Has anyone else experienced the alien poo during the liquid diet?

It also can be the coloring of the jello you are eating. If you are eating lime or lemon jello those dyes will cause a change to your stool.

[CherryTart 0]

Even though you’re not eating solids, the digestive tract still sheds cells and eventually the waste needs to leave the body. What you intake can effect the color. Everyone is different when they have their first bowel movement ....3 days, sometimes a week or more.

[JeffN 106]

Green poop is normal, Even though you went on a liquid diet before surgery you did not fully clean your intestine. Also, don't be alarmed if it turns black. That is the blood from the surgery and if you are taking Iron pills that will also turn it black.