Bowel Transit Time

Why It Is Done

Bowel transit time tests may be done to:

• Help find the cause of severe constipation.
• Show how different foods speed up or slow down the movement of food through the body.

Bowel transit time tests are not done to find the cause of diarrhea.

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Author:	Douglas Dana Sydney Youngerman-Cole, RN, BSN, RNC	Last Updated: July 14, 2006
Medical Review:	Kathleen Romito, MD - Family Medicine Tom Bailey, MD - Family Medicine Peter J. Kahrilas, MD - Gastroenterology Jerome B. Simon, MD, FRCPC, FACP - Gastroenterology
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