fatty stool

These fatty stools can be strange-smelling, and float more than normal.

Changes in bowel habits, including: Oily or fatty stool.

The patients reported stomach cramps, fatty stools, diarrhea and increased appetites.

Pancreatin may also be used to treat a condition called steatorrhea (loose, fatty stools).

Other diseases besides cystic fibrosis can cause fatty stools and pancreatic problems.

Steatorrhea or fatty stool (often foul-smelling and whitish in colour)

Fecal fat test shows fatty stools.

Oily or fatty stool.

Greasy and fatty stools.

Chronic diarrhea, including steatorrhea (fatty stools)

Taurine supplementation might be useful along with usual treatment to reduce fatty stools (steatorrhea) in children with cystic fibrosis.

To control fatty stools that are sometimes associated with pancreatic insufficiency, the dose can be increased as needed or until nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea occurs.

With excessive use, polydextrose can have a laxative effect, and olestra may cause loss of fat-soluble vitamins in the form of fatty stools.

Enzyme supplements can replace natural enzymes so that fat and proteins can be absorbed properly, which improves nutrition and reduces fatty stools.

Intestinal cramps, upper abdominal discomfort, and fatty stools were noticed by five of the subjects during SMS 201-995 treatment taken either alone or with omeprazole.

Fatty stools typically are large in volume, foul smelling, greasy, light tan or light grey in color, and tend to float in the toilet bowl.

The malabsorption associated with Wolman disease is often accompanied by persistent and often forceful vomiting, frequent diarrhea, foul-smelling and fatty stools (steatorrhea).

Malabsorption (especially of fat) and steatorrhea (fatty stool) due to biliary obstruction, leading to decreased levels of the fat-soluble vitamins, A, D, E and K.

Symptoms can include abdominal cramping, gas, distention and bloating, chronic diarrhea or constipation (or both), fatty stools, unexplained anemia or nutritional deficiency, and weight loss despite a large appetite.

Another currently approved diet drug, Xenical, by Roche, is considered safe and helps patients lose weight, but people often discontinue its use because of its embarrassing side effects: fatty stools and flatulence.

And it has some of the same problematic side effects that plagued its prescription-strength predecessor - gas with oily discharge, inability to control bowel movements, oily or fatty stools, and oily spotting.

When undigested lactose reaches the large intestine, it attracts fluids and is attacked by gas-producing bacteria, resulting in one or more symptoms of lactose intolerance: abdominal bloating, flatus, fatty stools and diarrhea.

The obstruction of a section of intestine causes ineffective bile salt mediated digestion of fats, causing fatty stools and poor absorption of fat and fat-soluble vitamins including vitamins A,D,E and K. Vitamin B deficiency may occur because the increased bacterial population can consume the vitamin.