Chronic diarrhea

Causes of chronic diarrhea.

Chronic diarrhea in children.

Definitions Chronic diarrhea is a common complaint in pediatric medicine and can pose a complex situation for practitioners and families. This complaint is both a symptom and a sign. (1) Although patients or their parents often assess the presence of diarrhea by reporting stool consistency and frequency, one can more scientifically define diarrhea as stool volume >10 g/kg per day in infants and...

Chronic diarrhea in children

Acute diarrhea is a leading cause of under-five mortality in developing countries like India. Most of the diarrheal episodes recover within 14 days. However in certain cases acute diarrhea may last for more than 14 days in which it is termed as persistent diarrhea if presumed to be of infectious origin. Various malabsorptive syndromes due to carbohydrate, fat and protein malabsorption can resul...

Etiology of chronic diarrhea.

OBJECTIVE The aim is to find the common causes of chronic diarrhea in our hospital, and to find out the most useful methods for diagnosis. METHODS This study was carried out in the medical ward at Al-Yarmouk Teaching Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq, during the period January 1999 through to August 2000. Fifty inpatients with diarrhea for 4 weeks or more were evaluated by history, physical examination...

Chronic Diarrhea in Cats

Feline inflammatory bowel disease Feline inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is the term applied to a group of poorly understood intestinal disorders that are associated with vomiting, diarrhea and weight loss in cats. Diagnosis is usually based upon subjective analysis of intestinal mucosal biopsies and qualified according to the dominant mucosal infiltrate, typically lymphocytes and plasma cells...