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Hi i've been having yellow bowl movements is this anything to be worried about as it's not brown it's like a tan yellow colour ?
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Change in bowel: movement can be related to nutition, food coloring, diet, liver/pancreatic function. bacterial or viral infections. Get a stool culkture and analysis.
Answered 12/9/2014
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