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My dr says i have a loopy bowe! was causes this and what are the symptoms?
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Loopy bowel: A "loopy bowel" is common in laxative users (with colonic redundancy due to a stretched, floppy gut), in the setting of multiple abdominal-pelvic surgeries with resulting adhesions &fixed colonic bends or after surgery that mobilizes the splenic flexure, with gynecologic issues (like multiple c-sections, tubal pregnancy, pelvic inflammatory disease), & in patients at extremes of body habitus.
Answered 12/9/2013
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