Current local time in Fort George G Meade, Maryland: Tuesday, February 6 2018 - 3:30:53 AM About Army Acs Army Acs is located in 830 Chisolm Avenue, Fort George G Meade, MD 20755, United States.
Yellow voluminous diarrheal and oily stool that smells unpleasantly is usually a symptom of fat malabsorption (steatorrhea). Fats are normally digested in small intestine with participation of bile and pancreatic digestive enzymes.
1 Malabsorption syndromes are another common cause of watery stool or watery diarrhea. 2  In these cases, there is failure of the small intestine to absorb nutrients, which is further compounded by decreased water absorption in the large intestine. Chronic cases of infectious diarrhea may be seen in immunocompromised patients (as seen in HIV diarrhea) or associated with a Clostridium difficile infection (as seen in antibiotic-associated diarrhea). 2  Malabsorption syndromes are another common cause of watery stool or watery diarrhea.