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Short Bowel Syndrome

Symptoms

A person is usually considered to have short bowel syndrome when less than three to five feet (100 to 150 centimeters) of functioning small bowel remains (about 20 percent of normal).

Signs and symptoms of short bowel syndrome can include:

  • Dehydration
  • Pale, greasy, watery diarrhea
  • Particularly bad-smelling stools
  • Weight loss
  • Exhaustion
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