While changes in poop’s color, consistency, frequency, and even smell can very well indicate a digestive problem, it can just as easily be a false alarm. “Sometimes it’s just something they ate,” saysEdward Loftus, MD, a professor of gastroenterology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, M...
If your poop is pale, it’s not likely directly due to a food. But medicines for diarrhea like bismuth subsalicylate (Kaopectate, Pepto-Bismol) can sometimes cause pale or clay-colored poop. So can barium, a chalky liquid you drink before you get X-rays of the upper part of your diges...
If your poop is pale, it’s not likely directly due to a food. But medicines for diarrhea like bismuth subsalicylate (Kaopectate, Pepto-Bismol) can sometimes cause pale or clay-colored poop. So can barium, a chalky liquid you drink before you get X-rays of the upper part of your diges...