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Clay Colored Stool

The color of your stool may be a signal that your body is not as healthy as you believe. Diet, disease, and lifestyle are just a few things affecting the color of your stool. If you’re like most people, the color changes a little depending upon what you’ve eaten recently.

From dark brown to an almost greenish color is not uncommon, especially in newborns and infants. In most cases, what you eat is the key component of bowel movement hue. However, if you have black or very dark stool, or especially pale, clay colored stool, you should consult your healthcare provider as these colors sometimes indicate serious digestive trouble.

Clay colored stool can be a warning signal that something’s wrong with your ability to digest food properly. Sometimes, this pale color occurs when your body isn’t producing enough bile. Either way, your bowel is not working the way it’s supposed to. The ideal color of stool is light brown. Anything deviating from that could mean you’re experiencing internal health issues.

Causes and Symptoms of Pale Stool

What does pale stool indicate? The leading causes of clay colored stool include:

  • Hepatitis, A, B, or C
  • Eating large amounts of pale colored foods (like rice)
  • Pancreatitis or Pancreatic Cancer
  • Jaundice
  • Bile Duct Obstruction
  • Gallstones or Gallbladder Disorders
  • Liver Tumor or Cancer
  • Biliary Atresia
  • Sprue or Celiac Disease
  • Giardia
  • Cholecystitis

If you are suddenly producing clay colored stool, it’s important to gather as much information to help pinpoint the cause. If you observe clay colored stool after having a bowel movement, plus any one of the symptoms below, it could be evidence of a type of liver disease:

  • Red palms
  • Testicular atrophy
  • Male breast enlargement
  • Muscle tissue loss
  • Bruising easily


A yellow discoloration of the eyes and/or skin, as well as pale stool could mean you have jaundice. Elevated levels of Bilirubin within the body causes Jaundice and it can be the only warning sign of pancreatic disorders such as cancer.

Impaired Bile Production

The liver normally secrets a liquid called bile which gets stored in the gall bladder. When the body needs help digesting fats, bile is sent to the stomach through a special duct. Healthy bile is yellow in color and is largely responsible for the brownish hue of your stool as it mixes with food residue. If there is a blockage in the bile duct, or the liver isn’t manufacturing enough bile, you may notice pale or clay colored stool.


Clay colored stool can also result from your body not absorbing nutrients and fats from the foods you eat. Malabsorption, a condition that can cause this, alters the stool to be very foul smelling and unusually light in color.

Celiac Disease

Celiac Disease is a condition from which many people suffer, but not many people know about it. As a matter of fact, it was once believed to affect one out of every five-thousand people, but recent studies find the real number may be a stunning one out of every two-hundred and fifty people. Celiac Disease is caused by the body developing an allergy or intolerance to gluten, a protein found in wheat products. Celiac Disease resembles Malabsorption in many ways since the body is able to absorb the nutrients it needs to function properly.

As you can see, many, if not all of these conditions directly affect the performance of the entire digestive system. One thing is evident—the healthier your digestive system is, the better chance you have of avoiding many of these terrible illnesses. So what can you do to help strengthen your colon?

Methods for Avoiding Clay Colored Stool

  1. Perhaps most importantly, improve your diet. It’s proven that high fiber diets can help you eliminate waste efficiently. Thereafter, your immune system isn’t burdened with the task of purging waste and it can fight off diseases more easily.
  2. Engage in plenty of exercise. Exercise can actually strengthen your insides as well as the visible muscles.
  3. Drink plenty of purified water. Water flushes out toxins and impurities debilitating your body. Water also helps lubricate the colon so stool can pass with less difficulty.
  4. Perform routine colon cleansing sessions. Only when the colon is thoroughly cleansed and purged of toxin-heavy, hardened waste can it begin to function at its best.

Since 70% of the body’s immune system is located in the colon, it makes sense that a clean colon can help your body more effectively resist sickness. Using a colon cleansing supplement like Oxy-Powder® can support your efforts in this regard. Oxy-Powder® uses an innovative, all-natural formula designed to cleanse the colon of toxic waste while promoting an environment that is welcoming to beneficial flora or “good” bacteria.

Good bacteria help break down the foods you eat so you can assimilate the nutrients. The better foods get broken down, the better they can be absorbed, and the easier the subsequent waste can be removed. With your entire digestive system working more efficiently, you can avoid much stress on your body both inside and out.

Be sure to pay attention to your stool color. If you produce pale or clay colored stool, consult with your healthcare provider immediately as it may indicate a potentially life-threatening illness at work. Take preventative measures such as described above to improve the overall health of your colon. This action alone can start you on a path to better health!

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