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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.