Call your doctor at once if you have any of these serious side effects: 1  unusual bleeding such as nosebleeds, bleeding gums, or any bleeding that will not stop;  pale skin, fever, easy bruising, purple or red spots under your skin;
The ileocecal valve is a sphincter muscle and its function is to allow the passage of digested food frâ¦om the small intestine into the large intestine, as well as preventing the reflux of the contents of the large intestine back into the ileum (the last part of the small intestine).
The large intestine is the final section of the gastrointestinal tract that performs the vital task of absorbing water and vitamins while converting digested food into feces.Although shorter than the small intestine in length, the large intestine is considerably thicker in diameter, thus giving it its name.he large intestine performs the vital functions of converting food into feces, absorbing essential vitamins produced by gut bacteria, and reclaiming water from feces. A slurry of digested food, known as chyme, enters the large intestine from the small intestine via the ileocecal sphincter.