Make an appointment with your doctor if: 1  Vomiting lasts more than two days for adults, 24 hours for children under age 2 or 12 hours for infants.  You've had bouts of nausea and vomiting for longer than one month.
Could you have accidental bowel leakage (ABL) or other bowel control problems, known as fecal incontinence? Get the details on these distressing conditionsâ¦. Fecal incontinence, also called a bowel control problem, is the accidental passing of solid or liquid stool or mucus from the rectum.
Passage of fat in large amounts in the feces, due to failure to digest and absorb it; occurs in pancreatic disease and the malabsorption syndromes. Steatorrhea is the medical term for fat in stool. Fat in the stool can cause bulky stool that floats, has an oily or greasy appearance, and smells foul. Fat in the stool is fat that the digestive tract was unable to absorb. Temporary steatorrhea may result from dietary changes or intestinal infections.