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I am very affraid...my stools have been white and some are brown with white flecks?
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Perhaps what you ate: If stools are consistently and uniformly white it can mean a bile duct blockage or liver problem. But only specks within the stool suggest it is something in your diet.
Answered 2/14/2014
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