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I have been having light brown poop all week?
3 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
Pale stool color: Bile & your gut's bacterial flora account in large part for color & volume of stool. Absence of bile results in pale (acholic) stool. Lots of other things also affect stool appearance: ingested foods, medications (peptobismol, antacids), swallowed blood or bleeding from gut, infection/antibiotics, inflammation, maldigestion, & the amount of mucus mixed with stool, as well as transit time of food.
Answered 8/5/2018
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Not to worry : Without other symptoms i would not be worried.
Answered 10/3/2016
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