Digestive Wellness: Strengthen the Immune System and Prevent Disease Through Healthy Digestion, Fourth Edition (94 page)

Abdominal discomfort

Bleeding tendency (vitamin K deficiency)

Bloating

Can’t gain weight

Failure to thrive in children

Fatigue for no obvious reason

Food sensitivities

Gas

Hypoglycemia

Malabsorption

Steatorrhea—pale, tan colored stools

Stools that float (fat maldigestion)

Undigested food in your stools

Pancreatic insufficiency is common in people who have celiac disease, psoriasis, cirrhoses, pancreatitis, and cystic fibrosis. Other triggers are parasites, bacterial over-growth, dermatitis herpetiformis, inflammatory bowel disease, Zollinger-Ellison syndrome, and AIDS. Stress (mental and physical), getting older, nutritional deficiencies, poor diet, eating only cooked foods, exposure to radiation or toxins, hereditary weaknesses, drugs, and infections also contribute to pancreatic insufficiency.

Stool pancreatic elastase test