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Why would you have orange, oily stool?
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From food?: Submit stool for blood and ? Colonoscopy.
Answered 8/13/2016
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Poly stool: Could be from fat malabsorption also called steatorhea . Can be associated with pancreatic disease or medications.
Answered 8/30/2018
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