Abstract
Laboulbene 1 reported the first case of intestinal sand in 1873. He found a sandy substance in the feces resembling brown or yellow sand, which he believed was of vegetable origin. Since that time there have been many reports of cases in which intestinal sand was associated with one or more clinical manifestations, and attempts have been made to show that the sand was a part of various forms of diathesis. More recently Myer and Cook 2 studied the literature on the subject and came to the conclusion that intestinal sand was not a part of any clinical entity but that, in their own case, it resulted from the ingestion of bananas. They found that after eating bananas sand invariably appeared in the feces after twenty-four hours and often continued for several days. It came in large quantities at first (from 1 teaspoonful to 1 tablespoonful) and gradually diminished in amount.
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