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What is the cause of brown discharge?
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Brown discharge: is usually old blood being cleaned from the uterus.
Answered 7/20/2018
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Old blood most: likely; assuming you are speaking of discharge from lungs, bladder or vagina; discharge site not specified. Blood, after a time, & a bit diluted looks brown from the iron and heme in hemoglobin.
Answered 10/27/2016
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