Notwithstanding that small variations in appearance should not worry too much, a sudden and lasting change could be a sign of something wrongHere are the questions and answers in collaboration with the gastroenterologists of the Gemelli University Hospital in Rome, Antonio Gasbarrini, director of the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, and Carlo Romano Settanni, of the Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology Unit.
Color due to the presence of brown pigments derived from the metabolism of bile. Bile, essential for digestion and intestinal absorption of nutrients such as cholesterol, fats and fat-soluble vitamins, yellow-green and contains bilirubin, produced by the liver; in the intestine, thanks to the bacterial flora (or microbiota) it is metabolized into compounds such as stercobilinogen and urobilinogen which then, oxidizing, become stercobilin and urobilin, brown substances excreted in the faeces.
September 14, 2022 | 08:12
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