These types of questions intrique the hell out of me and always have. I think I've read here that sometimes your intestines shed their inner lining. Is that right? If you had eaten something with tons of food coloring lately, would it be possible that this shedding would be a different color, or is that totally impossible? You know, Motherload, nothing like this every happens to me. I have boring poop. Yawn.

Sigh. Well at least I have first post and all that. Weeeeeeeee.

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"I saw something like fur intertwined in my poop" - SR, you `ll have to stop sticking hamsters up your ass.

This reminds me of SamDamnit!'s "lettuce lace." Maybe you are simply seeing some undigested plant material--plants' cell walls are made of cellulose, which we can't digest. It just passes through quietly.

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I'm with Flushy. I think it is plant fibers of some sort.
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Hmm, I have heard of this problem.

Maybee you are something that you normally don't. It has happened to me a couple of times, I can only speculate what causes this. It could be your intestines shedding.
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Next time you see something inexplicable in your poop, pull it out and examine it more closely if it so intrigues you.

I get those a lot...usually it's leftover salad or spinach. Nothing weird at all.

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My guess is left over plant material. Sometimes I'll eat a lot of apples and get the skin in my poop the next day. It wierded me out for a while until I combined 2 and 2.

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DF, sometimes it doesn't pass through so quietly...

Did you happen to eat any Chia Pet seeds? I bet I'll see that these holiday. The Chia Turd.

Chia turd? I'd buy it.

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Ectoplasm - you have a ghost inhabiting your asshole. Who ya gonna call...?

Seriously I'd have to go with the plant fiber theory.

This is most likely mucous. It's very common in food allergies, or in cases where an irritant is consumed (like alcohol.) It may also be, as some of the other posters mentioned, undigested cellulose.

Daphne - the human intestinal endothelium does not "shed" like the uterine lining, but severe tissue damage due to amoebic dysentery or similar pathogens can cause cell death resulting in sloughing of dead tissue. This is an extremely painful and potentially life-threatening condition though, so it's unlikely the poster is suffering from amoebic dysentery.

-Poothor

My vote is for plant material too. Salad can come out looking quite fresh and leafy at times.

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Its called mucoid plaque. Google it.

Um...I'll pass, but thanks. You're very kind.

Hi,

I have the same problem! I poop daily, big ones two. I eat a lot of veggies and fruit. I had a baby fifteen months ago, ans when he turned about 3 months old, I started having what looks like white fungus growing in my poop.
I don't know what causes it, could it be some sort of intestinal yeast infection caused my hormonal changes (I had a vaginal yeast infection when it started)? Could it be my diet? Could it be the parasitic waste (I don't itch, and I haven't seen any worms or anything)?
All I know is my poop float, I heard that is bad. It is covered in the white, stingy, almost worm like growths that look like they have roots coming of them. (It isn't a worm, believe my, as gross as it is I inspected it close up, very well, several time. Don't worry, I washed my hands.) Really it looks as though I I've had the same turd sitting inside my for months of something, and a plant started growing from it! But I usually go daily.
I mean it is so disturbing looking I showed it to my husband and he was shocked. Every time I relieve myself it is the same thing. I want to go to the doctor about it, but I don't have insurance and I can't afford it. Any ideas?

My above comment doesn't make a lick of sense. What I meant to say was: Maybee you ate something that you normaly don't.

My poo was bright orange, almost looked like it was blood tinged. How does this happen?

Liv, there is an article hiding around the site that discusses this very problem. Take a look around under the Orange Oil article. It's the fish.

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