floating poo

[rutter]

mt tummy gurggles nearly all the time and when i poo it floats and has lots of little air bubbles in it. Is there something wrong with me as this has been going on for about 3months now

[cosyrosy]

do you eat lots of butter and cheese? lots of fat in your diet will give you light coloured floating poos!

[rutter]

i dont eat cheese or butter or eggs. i only have milk in tea and eat a lot of fruit and veg, the coloure is a normal brown but just floats

[joko]

see your doc. i was once told this is not good, but i can't remember why, though its not serious, but does need seeing to.

[qapmoc]

Hi rutter, some people say that if you eat plenty of fruit and veg it will float anyway, but if you have not changed your diet recently then it is a sign that you are not absorbing fats correctly - food allergy or parasites maybe (don't say ''not me'' !!, everybody can get them) or have you had a course of antibiotics at about the time this all started??
Anyway a simple thing to try is to go to your pharmacy/chemist and ask for some pro-biotic capsules, these contain a mixture of the flora (bugs) which should be living in your digestive system but which may have been damaged by antibiotics or other things. Take these for 3 days as directed and see if it makes any difference. If your system doesn't need them then you will notice no effect at all.