Why is my daughter passing strangely coloured stools?
It is quite normal for a child to pass different coloured stools from day to day. One day they may be much darker than another day. However you need to seek medical advice as your daughter’s stools have been persistently pale or white for more than a couple of days. The unusual colour of your daughter’s stools suggests that her gall bladder is not emptying bile (the dark green pigment which result from the breakdown of blood pigments) into her bowels. Without this pigment her stools will look pale. If the bile pigments are not excreted into the bowel they will build up in your daughter’s blood stream. The result of this is that she may look jaundiced, feel itchy and pass dark coloured urine as she will excrete the excess bile into her urine. You need to see if your daughter is jaundiced. Check to see if her skin or the whites of her eyes look yellow. Check your daughter’s urine to see if it looks darker than usual – often it looks the colour of tea. This condition is called ‘cholestasi
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