INTRODUCTION Before choosing the initial therapeutic approach for the patient with ulcerative colitis (UC), three issues must be clarified: 1) demonstration that the diagnosis is ulcerative colitis and not another cause of bloody diarrhea, 2) determination of clinical and endoscopic disease severity, and 3) documentation of disease extent. An accurate diagnosis remains the foundation for a succ...

Diarrheal diseases are the second highest cause of mortality of children under 5 years worldwide. There is a continuous search for developing a cost-effective treatment for diarrhea as the present ones are facing challenges. Medicinal plants can be explored further as an alternative treatment for diarrhea. Psidium guajava leaves have been used as an antidiarrheal globally. Citrobacter rodentium...

Diarrhea is a common complication in solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients and may be attributed to immunosuppressive drugs or infectious organisms such as bacteria, viruses or parasites. Cryptosporidium usually causes self-limited diarrhea in immunocompetent hosts. Although it is estimated that cryptosporidium is involved in about 12% of cases of infectious diarrhea in developing countries a...

Up to 27% of recipients of solid organ transplant (SOT) experience diarrhea posttransplant, with some episodes being severe enough to require hospitalization [1–3]. Immunosuppressive medications are a common cause, but reduction of immunosuppression carries the risk of allograft rejection, making it necessary to rule out other causes, such as infection, before modifying the immunosuppressive re...

Chronic diarrhea is a symptom which persists for ≥ 4 weeks as of disease. often becomes the patient’s cause to be referred gastroenterology. In general, prevalence chronic approximated 5% in each populations, but there are obstacles diagnosing diarrhea, due many differential diagnoses diarrhea. The could neoplasm and non-neoplasm. several studies, through results colonoscopy histopathology, it ...

We would like to comment on the use of anti-diarrheal medication in the treatment of Ebola virus-induced diarrhea. Early symptoms of Ebola virus disease (EVD) are nonspecific and may include fever, chills, myalgias, malaise, and anorexia. Approximately five days after symptom onset, 62 percent of patients develop gastrointestinal (GI) illness including abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and wate...

Chronic diarrhea, defined as two or more loose or watery stools per day for at least 1 month is common in patients with AIDS. It’s a causal relationship between the immunosuppression and the diarrhea in these patients. We evaluated the most common causes of diarrhea in patients with AIDS. 32 consecutive patients with AIDS were submitted with chronic diarrhea (19 males, 13 females), mean age 20....