What is the normal color of the feces?

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Normal Color of the Feces

Q. What is the normal color of the feces?

A. The best example of the normal feces is to be seen in the discharges of a young infant, which are yellow in color and are either odor­ less or have a slight acid odor. When putre­faction is present the stool is usually black or brown in color and has a very offensive am­moniacal or putrid odor. The stools of adults generally have this appearance. In nearly all cases more or less putrefaction is present. By change of the flora the stool may be made to ac­quire an appearance closely resembling that of an infant.

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