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Dark Stool After Drinking Grape Juice

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Guitarplyr1990
Guitarplyr1990

Every time I drink grape juice my stool is dark for a couple of days before going back to normal. Is it The grape juice causing that?

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  • sam18386
    sam18386 Guitarplyr1990

    Posted

    I don't drink grape juice but I bet that's what's doing this, as long as you're not in pain!

    • Guitarplyr1990
      Guitarplyr1990 sam18386

      Posted

      I've been having pain all week but that could be the ibs I was diagnosed with. But even when I haven't had pain I've always seemed to have darker than usual stool when I drink grape juice. I drank a whole large bottle last night and this morning.

  • FA54321
    FA54321 Guitarplyr1990

    Posted

    It does sound like it, if your stools return to normal afterwards. I’m presuming you are drinking the darker grape juice and not the white(?) Did you know though, that drinking too much of it is bad for you and it can cause anaemia? 
    • Guitarplyr1990
      Guitarplyr1990 FA54321

      Posted

      It was a 64 OZ bottle I drank half yesterday and finished the other this morning. I 've pain all week in my lower abdomen that started to go away. But I had lighter colored bowel movements until today. The stool looked black but I drank a lot more yesterday and today than usual.

    • FA54321
      FA54321 Guitarplyr1990

      Posted

      It sounds like the grape juice. Take a break from it for a week and see if things go back to normal. Also, you sound like you need to cut back as it’s not only extra calories you have to think about, all that sugar is not good for you, plus, as I said, it can cause anaemia.
    • Guitarplyr1990
      Guitarplyr1990 FA54321

      Posted

      I'll have to do that. My doctor told me losing weight would help with the ibs and nerd. And the stool color always changed back before.

    • FA54321
      FA54321 Guitarplyr1990

      Posted

      Well cutting back on the grape juice or stop drinking it altogether will definitely help you lose weight, there are a lot of calories in fruit juice. 
  • pippa58442
    pippa58442 Guitarplyr1990

    Posted

    Are you drinking dark grape juice?  This would be the likely cause since your stools go back to normal.  Drinking a whole large bottle is too much. Taking so much of it is probably colouring your stools.  I would cut back on the amount of grape juice you are drinking.  
    • Guitarplyr1990
      Guitarplyr1990 pippa58442

      Posted

      I drank the dark purple kind. And I drank a larger amount than normal over a short period of time and this time it looked black. But because of the amou t it seems like grape juice would cause it. Ive had lower abdominal pain this week but it likely be the ibs I was diagnosed with causing that. I had a colonoscopy 4 3/4 years ago and it didn't even fi d any polyps at all so it do t seem like it would be colon cancer.

  • Guitarplyr1990
    Guitarplyr1990

    Posted

    It's starting to go back to normal so I suspect it was the Juice. If I had bleeding it likely wouldn't have gone back to normal

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