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Foul-smelling stool: The occurrence of stool that has an offensive smell. See detailed information below for a list of 63 causes of Foul-smelling stool, Symptom Checker, including diseases and drug side effect causes.
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When combined, certain drugs, medications, substances or toxins may react causing Foul-smelling stool as a symptom. Always advise your doctor of any medications or treatments you are using, including prescription, over-the-counter, supplements, herbal or alternative treatments.
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Chronic digestive conditions often misdiagnosed: When diagnosing chronic symptoms of the digestive tract, there are a variety of conditions that may be misdiagnosed. The best known, irritable bowel syndrome, is over-diagnosed,...read more »
Intestinal bacteria disorder may be hidden cause: One of the lesser known causes of diarrhea is an imbalance of bacterial in the gut, sometimes called intestinal imbalance. The digestive...read more »
Antibiotics often causes diarrhea: The use of antibiotics are very likely to cause some level of diarrhea in patients. The reason is that antibiotics kill off not only "bad" bacteria, but can also kill the "good...read more »
Food poisoning may actually be an infectious disease: Many people who come down with "stomach symptoms" like diarrhea assume that it's "something I ate" (i.e. food poisoning). In fact, it's more likely to be an ...read more »
Mesenteric adenitis misdiagnosed as appendicitis in children: Because appendicitis is one of the more feared conditions for a child with abdominal pain, it can be over-diagnosed (it can, of course, also fail to be diagnosed with fatal effect). One of the most...read more »
Celiac disease often fails to be diagnosed cause of chronic digestive symptoms: One of the most common chronic digestive conditions is celiac disease, a malabsorption disorder with a variety of symptoms (see symptoms of celiac disease). A...read more »
Chronic digestive diseases hard to diagnose: There is an inherent difficulty in diagnosing the various types of chronic digestive diseases. Some of the...read more »
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This information refers to the general prevalence and incidence of these diseases, not to how likely they are to be the actual cause of Foul-smelling stool. Of the 63 causes of Foul-smelling stool that we have listed, we have the following prevalence/incidence information:
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The following list of conditions have 'Foul-smelling stool' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.
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This information shows analysis of the list of causes of Foul-smelling stool based
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Medical Conditions associated with Foul-smelling stool:
Stool odor (69 causes), Stool symptoms (2508 causes), Bowel problems (2509 causes), Odor symptoms (148 causes), Odour symptoms (148 causes), Intestinal symptoms (5299 causes), Lower abdominal symptoms (3048 causes), Abdominal symptoms (5930 causes), Digestive system symptoms (5299 causes), Body symptoms (5672 causes), Bowel movements (2383 causes)
Symptoms related to Foul-smelling stool:
Stool odor (69 causes), Stool symptoms (2508 causes), Constipation (726 causes), Diarrhea (2312 causes), Acanthocytosis, Accessory navicular bone, Autoimmune thyroid disease associated Celiac Disease, Celiac Disease, Susceptibility to 1
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