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Symptom: Stool color
Introduction: Stool color
Stool changes color with changes in diet, but also with various medical conditions. Stool color may also be associated with bloody stool (causing varying degrees of color change to the stool), mucus stool, and also with related symptoms such as black stool, stool odor or other stool symptoms. Seek prompt professional medical advice about such symptoms.
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Causes of Stool color:
The following medical conditions are some of the possible
causes of Stool color.
There are likely to be other possible causes, so ask your doctor
about your symptoms.
- Certain foods
- Blood in stool - see also the various causes of blood in stool
- Salmonella - can cause greenish stool (usually diarrhea)
- Giardia - can cause greenish stool (usually diarrhea)
- See also blood in stool, black stool, pale stool, bloody stool
See full list of 181 causes of Stool color
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Causes of Types of Stool color:
Review the causes of these more specific types of Stool color:
- Black stool (40 causes)
- Pale stool (68 causes)
- Bloody stool (241 causes)
- Rubbery, orange precipitate in stool
- Green stool (10 causes)
- Stools, clay-colored
- Bloody diarrhea (48 causes)
- Rectal bleeding (157 causes)
- White stool (55 causes)
- Yellow stool (55 causes)
- Dark stool (37 causes)
- Anal bleeding (13 causes)
Stool color: Multiple Symptom Checker
Listed below are some combinations of symptoms associated with Stool color, as listed in our database. Visit the Multiple Symptoms Checker, to add and remove symptoms and research your condition.
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Multiple Symptom Checker Combinations
- Stool color and Stool symptoms (172 causes)
- Stool color and Bowel problems (168 causes)
- Stool color and Digestive symptoms (167 causes)
- Stool color and Abdominal symptoms (153 causes)
- Stool color and Pain (131 causes)
- Stool color and Bleeding symptoms (130 causes)
- Stool color and Nerve symptoms (119 causes)
- Stool color and Sensations (119 causes)
- Stool color and Bloody stool (117 causes)
- Stool color and Buttock bleeding (115 causes)
- Stool color and Bowel movements (112 causes)
- Stool color and Abdominal pain (103 causes)
- Stool color and Bowel incontinence (97 causes)
- Stool color and Diarrhea (97 causes)
- Stool color and Anal symptoms (95 causes)
- Stool color and Weight loss (86 causes)
- Stool color and Body symptoms (81 causes)
- Stool color and Vomiting (81 causes)
- Stool color and Swelling symptoms (79 causes)
- Stool color and Weight symptoms (76 causes)
See full list of 1129 Multiple Symptom Checker combinations related to Stool color
Home Diagnostic Testing and Stool color
Home medical tests possibly related to Stool color:
- Colon & Rectal Cancer: Home Testing
Causes of General Symptom Types
Research the causes of these more general types of symptom:
- Stool symptoms (768 causes)
- Bowel problems (824 causes)
- Digestive symptoms (2165 causes)
- Abdominal symptoms (1358 causes)
Causes of Similar Symptoms to Stool color
Research the causes of these symptoms that are similar to, or related to, the symptom Stool color:
- Bloody stool (241 causes)
- Mucus stool (36 causes)
- Stool symptoms (768 causes)
- Stool odor (44 causes)
- Diarrhea (830 causes)
Diagnostic Guides for Stool color
Medical Books Excerpts Read excertps from published book sections related to Stool color from the following published medical books for more detailed information about Stool color. Free access (no registration): read all online diagnostic book sections about Stool color
- "The 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual: Symptoms and Signs in the Time-Limited Encounter"
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Copyright notice for book excerpts: Copyright © 2008 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
Misdiagnosis and Stool color
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Food poisoning may actually be an infectious disease: Many people who come down with "stomach symptoms" like diarrhea assume that it's "something I ate" (i.e. food poisoning). In...read more »
Mesenteric adenitis misdiagnosed as appendicitis in children: Because appendicitis is one of the more feared conditions for a child with abdominal pain, it can be over-diagnosed (it can, of course, also fail to be diagnosed with fatal effect). One of the most...read more »
Celiac disease often fails to be diagnosed cause of chronic digestive symptoms: One of the most common chronic digestive conditions is celiac...read more »
Chronic digestive diseases hard to diagnose: There is an inherent difficulty in diagnosing the various types of chronic digestive diseases. Some of the better known possibilities are ...read more »
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Detailed list of causes of Stool color
The list below shows some of the causes of Stool color mentioned in various sources:
- Abdominal Cancer - black tarry stools
- Abdominal Neoplasms - blood in stool
- Acanthocytosis - pale stool
- Acinic cell carcinoma - blood in stool
- Acute Gastritis - blood in stool
See full list of 181 causes of Stool color
How Common are these Causes of Stool color?
This information refers to the general prevalence and incidence of these diseases, not to how likely they are to be the actual cause of Stool color. Of the 181 causes of Stool color that we have listed, we have the following prevalence/incidence information:
- 3 causes are "very common" diseases
- 11 causes are "common" diseases
- 6 causes are "uncommon" diseases
- 1 causes are "rare" diseases
- 18 causes are "very rare" diseases
- 152 causes have no prevalence information.
See the analysis of the prevalence of 181
causes of Stool color
Conditions listing symptoms: Stool color:
The following list of conditions have 'Stool color' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.
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Conditions listing complications: Stool color:
The following list of conditions have 'Stool color' or similar listed as a complication in our database. The distinction between a symptom and complication is not always clear, and conditions mentioning this symptom as a complication may also be relevant. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.
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Causes of Stool color Based on Risk Factors
This information shows analysis of the list of causes of Stool color based
on whether certain risk factors apply to the patient:
Classifications of Stool color:
Subtypes of Stool color:
Black stool (24 causes), Pale stool (51 causes), Bloody stool (118 causes), Rubbery, orange precipitate in stool, Green stool, Stools, clay-colored, Bloody diarrhea (28 causes), Rectal bleeding (118 causes), White stool (51 causes), Yellow stool (51 causes), Dark stool (24 causes), Anal bleeding (2 causes)
Medical Conditions associated with Stool color:
Stool symptoms (757 causes), Bowel problems (805 causes), Digestive symptoms (2151 causes), Abdominal symptoms (1337 causes)
Symptoms related to Stool color:
Bloody stool (118 causes), Mucus stool (30 causes), Stool symptoms (757 causes), Stool odor (38 causes), Diarrhea (541 causes)
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Medical News summaries about Stool color
Our news pages contain the following medical news summaries about Stool color and many other medical conditions:
- 60% of at risk Americans over 50 haven’t been screened for colorectal cancer.
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- Anxious people more likely to notice symptoms of rectal cancer
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