What causes stools to float?

Dr. Jordan Foster
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2025-05-20 13:34:58
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Feces floating up the reasons generally include excessive fat intake, excessive eating of gas-producing food, pancreatitis, etc.
1, excessive fat intake
If the patient too much fat intake, resulting in increased fat content in the stool, stool in the body will float.
2, excessive eating gas-producing food
If the patient too much eating gas-producing food, such as onions, soybeans, etc., generate a lot of gas, and then mixed with stool, will make stool floating up.
3, pancreatitis
patients due to inflammatory reaction to stimulate pancreatic tissue, resulting in pancreatic function damage, causing lipase secretion less, affecting fat absorption, stool floating phenomenon.