A 38-year-old member asked:
what would cause a bowel movement to smell like rotten eggs?
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Dr. Ipe Kalathoor answered
16 years experience Internal Medicine
Bowel movement: Malabsorption, sometimes infection, sometimes the kind of food you ate.
Answered on Mar 3, 2018
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