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JustAnswer Customer: sometimes my stool smells like bleach, Is this normal?
Ken: Postgraduate doctor: Hello, I am Dr Ken and I will be helping you today.
Ken: Postgraduate doctor: Foul smelling stool can be due to varied causes - Inflammatory bowel disease/ Infections {viral, bacterial or parasitic}/ side effects of supplements like multivitamins.
Ken: Postgraduate doctor: I would look for other symptoms like runny stool/ constipation/ blood or mucus in stool/ fever.
Ken: Postgraduate doctor: If any of these are associated than medical evaluation with few investigations like stool analysis/ colonoscopy should give us more answers.
Ken: Postgraduate doctor: Till than - Have balanced diet {more of fiber}, adequate fluid/ avoid alcohol, smoking.
Ken: Postgraduate doctor: Wish you well.
Ken: Postgraduate doctor: Best
JustAnswer Customer: the main question was the bleach smell, not fowel smell, does that mean anything when it smells like bleach?
Ken: Postgraduate doctor: Bleach or ammonia like smell does not indicate a particular disease BUT few causes like - Bacterial disease needs to be considered.
Ken: Postgraduate doctor: Liver or kidney disease may also cause it but I would not think of it with you in absence of any other symptoms.
Ken: Postgraduate doctor: Stool analysis should help.
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