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Today i saw this little black dots looking things on my stool, with foam. but the black thimgs were hard. what can this mean?

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Probably nothing: It's probably nothing to be concerned about as long the stool normalizes . Likely something you ate.

Dr Ali and another doctor agreed

Answered 2/2/2016

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