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Lauren Sarantou asked:
>*What other situations may cause this?
This is from a long ago post to this list. Mostly written by Joe Murray, MD:
Steatorrhea is the passage of fatty stools that are pale, bulky, frothy,
greasy, malodorous and they float. They may be liquid or semi-formed. The
causes of steatorrhea include:
celiac disease (gluten intolerance)
pancreatic disease
cirrhosis
other liver diseases
malabsorption due to other causes
giardia infection
vascular disease
Whipple's disease
small bowel Crohn's
and about a 100 other diseases
Don.