
Stool color: When to worry - Mayo Clinic
Oct 10, 2024 · Stool comes in a range of colors. All shades of brown and even green are considered typical. Only rarely does stool color indicate a possibly serious intestinal condition. Stool color is generally influenced by what you eat as well as by the amount of bile — a yellow-green fluid that digests fats — in your stool.
Moles - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
Dec 15, 2023 · Color and texture. Moles can be brown, tan, black, blue, red or pink. They can be smooth, wrinkled, flat or raised. They may have hair growing from them. Shape. Most moles are oval or round. Size. Moles are typically less than 1/4 inch (about 6 mm) in diameter — the size of a pencil eraser.
Seborrheic keratosis - Symptoms & causes - Mayo Clinic
Jan 18, 2022 · Seborrheic keratoses are usually brown, black or light tan. The growths (lesions) look waxy or scaly and slightly raised. They appear gradually, usually on the face, neck, chest or back.
Urine color - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
Jan 10, 2023 · Regular urine color ranges from clear to pale yellow. But certain things can change the color. Foods such as beets, blackberries and fava beans can turn urine pink or red, for example. And some medicines can give urine vivid tones, such as orange or greenish-blue. An unusual urine color also can be a sign of a health problem.
Discolored semen: What does it mean? - Mayo Clinic
Nov 29, 2022 · Semen is normally a whitish-gray color. Changes in semen color might be temporary and harmless or a sign of an underlying condition that requires further evaluation. Possible causes, by color, include: Red semen. This could be caused by inflammation of the prostate or the glands that help produce semen.
Types of birthmarks (birthmark pictures) - Mayo Clinic
Jan 25, 2024 · Cafe au lait (ka-FAY o lay) spots are flat oval or round patches. They range in color from tan to dark brown. They are permanent and very common. They can occur anywhere on the body, and the size increases as the child grows. Usually, no treatment is needed. Children may have one or several cafe au lait spots.
Baby poop: What to expect - Mayo Clinic
Jan 26, 2024 · Your baby's poop may turn this color once the meconium stool has passed. Yellow. Breastfed newborns usually have seedy, loose stool that looks like light mustard. Yellow or tan. If you feed your newborn formula, your baby's poop might become yellow or tan with hints of green. It likely will be more firm than that of breastfed babies.
7 fingernail problems not to ignore - Mayo Clinic
Jun 30, 2023 · In yellow nail syndrome, nails thicken and grow slower. This results in the nails turning a yellowish color. Nails affected by yellow nail syndrome might lack a cuticle and detach from the nail bed in places. Yellow nail syndrome may be a symptom of a lung disease, such as chronic bronchitis.
White stool: Should I be concerned? - Mayo Clinic
Nov 28, 2023 · Bile is a digestive fluid produced by the liver and stored in the gallbladder. Stool gets its typical brownish color from bile, which flows into the small intestine during the digestive process. If the liver doesn't produce bile or if bile gets stuck in …
Sun damage - Mayo Clinic
Jun 24, 2023 · Actinic keratosis (ak-TIN-ik ker-uh-TOE-sis) looks like a rough, scaly patch on the skin. The color may be from tan or red to brown, depending on skin color. Actinic keratosis also is called solar keratosis. It's commonly found on areas of the skin often exposed to sunlight in people who have white skin.