Medical Procedures
Several medical treatments might result in green stools. For instance, a person may develop graft-versus-host disease if their body rejects a bone marrow transplant. This illness manifests with diarrhea and green stools.
If the gallbladder, which holds bile, is removed, the patient may get green stools. If you have gallstones, which are hard deposits of material that may obstruct the passage of bile and cause severe pain, it may be necessary to remove this organ. This treatment, known as a cholecystectomy, is one of the most common surgeries. The absence of a gallbladder renders the body incapable of storing bile. As a consequence, the patient may get diarrhea that contains more bile than usual, causing the stool to appear green.
In addition, since bile helps digest fat, disrupting its supply pathway from the liver to the gallbladder to the intestines may induce intestinal pain, which speeds up bowel movements and turns feces green. See a doctor after eight weeks.
On the other hand, one in ten bariatric surgery patients develops dumping syndrome, a combination of intestinal pain symptoms caused by rapid stomach emptying, resulting in green stools. It may also occur after gastrectomy or esophageal surgery.
