Passing clear liquid from stool can be due to mucus, pus, or watery diarrhea. The most frequent causes are dysentery, proctitis, IBD, IBD, antibiotic-associated diarrhea, and others.
The most common causes of IBS yellow stools are yellow foods, IBS-diarrhea flare-ups, gastroenteritis, and stress. Other less common causes such as liver, pancreas, and gallbladder disease can result in a yellow stool with IBS.
The top reasons why your poop is green are green leafy vegetables, green food and drink colorings, severe diarrhea, recent gallbladder surgery, and others.
Your poop may smell like sewer gas after eating certain foods, such as cruciferous vegetables, eggs, animal meat, and others. However, it may also reflect disease conditions such as malabsorption, food intolerance, or infection.
There are no specific changes in poop smell or color in people with appendicitis. Although some patients may experience foul-smelling stool with appendicitis, it is not a unique disease feature.
Causes of loose poop that come out in small soft pieces include dietary changes, food intolerances (such as lactose intolerance), infections of the gut, irritable bowel syndrome, and other causes of chronic or recurrent diarrhea such as celiac disease, IBD, stress, or drugs.
Giardiasis poop typically looks yellowish or grey in color, bulky, offensive, or fishy-smelling in odor. In most cases, the stool is usually loose or watery; However, hard stool (constipation) may be found in a minority of patients.
Poop that disintegrates in water can be due to either non-disease conditions such as dietary changes or diseases such as food intolerance, IBS, celiac diseases, infections, or medications.
Common causes of sand-like stool in adults include dietary changes, infection, irritable bowel syndrome, food intolerance, celiac diseases, etc.
Lactose intolerance stool color is often yellowish or light brown. Lactose-intolerant people may also have a smelly and loose stool with mucus.
Poop in patients with C. difficile may be normal or watery (diarrhea). Diarrhea with C. difficile infection may look like other types of diarrhea (yellow and watery) or contain reddish or blackish blood and mucus.
E Coli diarrhea can be in the form of yellow watery stool, bloody diarrhea, or dysentery, depending on the strain of E. coli.
