BM color question

Howdy... I’ve had minor (thankfully) gastro issues on and off throughout the past 10 years, usually related to poor eating.  Last week, I had some lower abdominal rumblings and tight gas for a few days, and then a number of family members and I got hit with a stomach virus on Monday.  I had watery diarrhea, progressively lessening, for 3 days.  When I wiped, it was bright yellow.  This morning (day 4), I finally passed something solid.  It was light brown, but the wiping still came out yellow.

 

Does this yellow sound normal?  I am an admitted hypochondriac, there obviously was a bug going around, and my blood work did show an infection (that went away in the follow-up), but the yellow is new to me.  My extended family has been hit with a number of illnesses, some very serious, in the past couple of months, and I’m more than a bit paranoid.

 

Thanks for any help.

For people without a gall bladder (or with a bad one), yellow stools are very common, due to bile. And yes, light brown stools can still wipe yellow.

People who have just a bout of diarrhea can also get yellow stools--perhaps because their bile is not getting absorbed properly because it's flushing through the guts too fast. I don't know of food or medicine that makes stools yellow, but it's a possibility. Given that you know that you were having a virus-induced problem, then I wouldn't worry about it being a sign of a bad gall bladder; yellow stools can happen to people with good gall bladders in times like these.

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