Re: SCD day 7 bowel color question

January 23, 2006

Hi Bobbie,

I am a little behind my emails so you may have already gotten your

answer, but here goes.

The browner the bowel movement, the healthier it is, sort of. A

healthy bowel movement should be dark brown in color, well-formed,

firm, and float. It also should not smell that bad. If it is tan or

yellowish, that indicates it has not spent enough time in the digestive

tract and the food has not been fully digested.

I don't know the color of your child's BMs before SCD so I can't

comment on whether his light brown BM is an improvement or not. Given

that his previous days BM was orangish and mushy, the color sounds like

a slight improvement, but it also sounds like it was runnier than the

previous day's. Is that true?

Suzanne

Woodland Hills

On Jan 23, 2006, at 12:41 AM, pecanbread wrote:

> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 02:07:57 -0000

>

> Subject: SCD day 7 bowel color question

>

> Cody's bowel movement this evening was interesting. When I changed

> his diaper I noticed it smelled different and was light brown (almost

> tan) mixed with a little darker brown and speckled with carrot

> pieces. The consistency was that of thick pancake batter. Yesterday

> it was orangeish and like mashed squash.

>

> Over the past day he has eaten bananna pancakes for breakfasts and

> snacks, french cut green beans, carrot curls, nibbles of baked

> chicken, nibbles of hamburger, tiniest bite of gelatin, small amounts

> of acorn squash, apple sauce, and lots of homemade bananna yogurt

> smoothies. He's been drinking ice water, apple cider, 100% Welch's

> grape juice, and occassionally orange juice. I've been putting No-

> Fenol in his juice drinks.

>

> What could cause this tan poop?

> Thanks,

> Bobbie

> Cody 3yo, Dev Delay, SID

> SCD day 7

>

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