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Bile
Dark green to yellowish brown fluid, produced by the liver for digestion of fats in the small intestine.
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What causes green bile?
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What is the cause of bile?
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How exactly is bile formed?
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What are the functions of bile?
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What the sotable food to bile stoons?
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I have black bile. What does this mean?
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A 23-year old asked:
Why do I bring up bile a few times a month?
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What is the definition or description of: bile?
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A 41-year old asked:
Is it possible for the body to increase the rate at which it releases bile?
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A 54-year old female asked:
Why would my body produce excess bile? Can excess bile be associated withgerd?
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A 70-year old female asked:
My wife has had severe bile for three days. What can I do to aleviate the sickness?
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A 45-year old asked:
Is stomach bile bright green?
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A 52-year old female asked:
I keep vomitting up bile.Pls help?
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A 29-year old female asked:
What could excessive bile acid mean?
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A 40-year old asked:
What kinds of food would bile help digest?
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A 19-year old female asked:
What triggers your body to make bile salts?
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A 19-year old female asked:
What causes bile to be very watery and clumpy?
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A 34-year old asked:
What does bile look like when you cough it up?
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A 48-year old asked:
I coughed up bile this morning what does that mean?
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A 28-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: bile acids?
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A 19-year old female asked:
What are the side affects of cholerestamine? For bile salts?
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A 63-year old female asked:
How would my dr know if I had reflux from acid or from bile?
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A 38-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: Absence of the bile ducts?
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A 39-year old asked:
Is there a way to increase amt of hydrochloric acid or bile I produce?
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A 32-year old asked:
Aside from storing bile, what other functions does the gallbladder perform?
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A 18-year old female asked:
Since my gallbladder got taken out is my bile suppose to be lose almost every time i eat?
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A female asked:
My baby of three months has just been sick a mustard coloured bile... Is this a cause for concern??
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A 54-year old male asked:
I have severe pains for a while now as a scan shows there might be something wrong with my bile duts and its just getting whorse the pain and so on and effects then it go away for 2 days and all of a sudden again and its been going on for a year now?
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A 66-year old female asked about a 66-year old female:
How is bile reflux cured?
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A 35-year old asked:
What structure collects and drains bile?
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