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When it is not producing bile, or not producing enough, pale stools can be one of the symptoms. Reasons, why the liver might have issues producing adequate bile, include:
Primary bile acid diarrhea (Type 2 bile acid "malabsorption") may be caused by an overproduction of bile acids. [5] [9] Several groups of workers have failed to show any defect in ileal bile acid absorption in these patients, and they have an enlarged bile acid pool, rather than the reduced pool expected with malabsorption. [10]
Failure to produce bile, or enough bile can be caused by: Liver damage: High doses or regular, long-term use of acetaminophen can cause liver damage, especially if combined with alcohol.
Bile (yellow material) in a liver biopsy stained with hematoxylin-eosin in a condition called cholestasis (setting of bile stasi). Bile (from Latin bilis), or gall, is a yellow-green/misty green fluid produced by the liver of most vertebrates that aids the digestion of lipids in the small intestine.
Impaired digestion or absorption can result in fatty stools. Possible causes include exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, with poor digestion from lack of lipases, loss of bile salts, which reduces micelle formation, and small intestinal disease-producing malabsorption. Various other causes include certain medicines that block fat absorption or ...
As food makes its way down the digestive tract, it gets stained by bile, which constantly drains into the gut. Bile, which breaks down fats, is made by the liver, stored in the gallbladder and is ...
The body produces about 800 mg of cholesterol per day and about half of that is used for bile acid synthesis producing 400–600 mg daily. Human adults secrete between 12 and 18 g of bile acids into the intestine each day, mostly after meals.
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