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Why do iron supplements make your poop smell so bad? per my dr i am taking iron and since then it has smelled horrible! why?
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Keep taking iron: If you are iron deficient keep taking iron, smelly poop notwithstanding. I do not know if it is true but the following may suffice as an explanation. Some of the unabsorbed iron is converted to to iron sulfide by the bacteria in the gut and that generates hydrogen sulfide which produces the smell of rotten eggs.
Answered 8/10/2019
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