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A 45-year old asked:

Can my regular doctor do the fecal fat test in his clinic?

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A 35-year old male asked:

I'm currently doing a 72 hr stool collection to test for fecal fat. Why is my stool steaming in the container?

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A 34-year old male asked:

Would floating stool caused by fat sink after a few minutes? worried its fat not gas. had stool tests including fecal fat test but not 72hr one normal

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A 34-year old male asked:

Are normal cbc, billuprin, amylase and lipase levels, ct scan and qualitative fecal fat test a good indication against pancreatic cancer?

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A 37-year old asked:

Can too much fat in the diet cause stringy stool?

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A 46-year old asked:

What causes the presence of fat in a child's stool?

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A 38-year old female asked:

My stool is always thick heavy pasty but soft but it's still hard to pass. What can I do to get my stool to become more light and loose?

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A 34-year old male asked:

Does floating stool caused by fat malabsorption have an obvious bad smell?

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A 19-year old female asked:

I recently found blood in my stool about 2 tbs worth. It was bright red & slightly thick. I am 19 yrs & female with no other symptoms.?

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A 22-year old female asked:

For the past 3 days i have had an UTI, and am trying to kick it. Today I had white thick stringy stuff in my stool. Any clue what that could be??

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A 31-year old asked:

Low fat diet changed stool color, is it normal?

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A 45-year old asked:

How to tell difference between mucus or fat or worms in poo stool?

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A 37-year old female asked:

I started having diarrhea five days ago. It was "normal" diarrhea the first two days. Since then I have had blood and a thick mucus in my stool. ?

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A 24-year old male asked:

Wats it mean if stool test showed inflammation? Could that be why I have soft loose mushy stool. Sometimes thick chunky watery stool? Wat can cause it

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A 23-year old male asked:

Every time my stool is thick I feel my anal fissure tear again,it hurts for a few days then goes away after the defication is smoother,surgery needed?

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A 20-year old male asked:

I have blood in my stool and the stool is soft and i think full of fats ,have hemorroids but wasnt the bleeding one i have gastritis but took medicat?

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A 26-year old female asked:

Told:fat malabsorption Only one stool sample and dr told me to eat hi fat. had wendys twice that day before sample stools were hard/const. is he right?

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A 26-year old female asked:

Can GastroParesis cause severe constipation and many undigested food in stool including fat?

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A member asked:

Green stool (thick pudding w black specs) in 18 mos toddler days after switching from cow's milk to soy milk?

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A 37-year old female asked:

I have loose stool with a look like fat ,mucus in it .Could it be puss coming out with poop? What makes this happen?it's the first time i'm seeing it

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A 26-year old female asked:

Hungry' pain upper mid abdo at night, gas,stinging pain upper right abdo, thumb thick stool, occ nausea, less apetite, undigested food. What's wrong?

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A 43-year old female asked:

What could be the cause of very hard, stone-like stool covered with yellowish, thick mucus? Also have daily vomiting, nightly fever, LQ bloating.

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A 30-year old male asked:

Thin stools, long and thin, sometimes thick and thin at the same time. no blood in stool, sometimes bright red on paper. soft but strain...

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A 27-year old female asked:

Ibs/what?stool 1-3 times pd. Short pieces oft thumb thick,occ thicker.gas,gurgling.Doc says to young for cancer?stinging upper right on+off daily.no cramps.eat healthy,lots veg,no junk/soda/alchohol

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A 26-year old female asked:

Organ Scleroderma? Socalled fat malabsorptionafter 1 stool sample lost 16lbs have POTS .ANA 1:80 speckeled esr 29 was healthy before death of baby EGDgastritis Colonoscopy norm CT/ABD-norm no familyhx

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A member asked:

What causes severe stomach pain, yellow stool with white fat globules, nausea, and vomiting if appendix and gall bladder have been removed?

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A 27-year old female asked:

Neg- colonoscopy,EGD,HIDA,CT abd/pelvis,RUQ ultrasound,celiec panel. smallbowel series showed Rapid transit. neg pancreas test What on earth is causing my weight loss and undigested food/fat in stool.

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A 48-year old asked:

Can you explain fecal bacteriotherapy?

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A 47-year old asked:

How to get rid of fecal body odor?

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A 36-year old asked:

Will blueberries turn fecal material black?

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