introduction: diarrhea is one of the most common symptoms treated in general practice and gastroenterology. an estimated 1.7 billion cases of diarrhea are reported annually. anxious and emotional persons are more sensitive to digestive problems. anxious persons may feel their heartbeat and perceive their intestinal motility and spasm, and this may cause them more concern. case presentation: in ...

Diabetic diarrhea is one of the chronic complications diabetes mellitus, which belongs to kind gastrointestinal autonomic neuropathy, and can seriously affect quality life patients. In recent years, Traditional Chinese medicine has achieved more satisfactory efficacy in treatment diabetic diarrhea. addition herbal medicine, acupuncture, acupoint plasters other special therapies significantly im...

The objective of this study was to evaluate an algorithm for the management of children with persistent/chronic diarrhea at a community level hospital. The study was carried out in the pediatric OPD of a 150 bed trust hospital catering to children from poor, rural and urban slums. Fifty clinically stable children (6 months-5 years old, mean = 19.7 months) with persistent or chronic diarrhea ref...

Introduction and purpose Microscopic colitis is multicausal inflammatory bowel disease, which affects mostly elderly, particularly women. It a cause of chronic, watery diarrhea. MC usually presents macroscopically normal, thus diagnosis requires colonoscopy histological examination colonic biopsies. doesn’t increase risk colon cancer. However, it leads to impaired patients’ quality life reduced...

BACKGROUND Chronic diarrhea in adults is a common symptom with a wide range of underlying etiologies. Although various strategies have been proposed for evaluation, there are still cases with undetermined origins even after extensive workup. Amyloidosis with gastrointestinal (GI) involvement is one of the causes that should be considered in adult patients with chronic diarrhea. We report a case...

Diarrheal disease is a major cause of childhood morbidity and mortality worldwide. Chronic enteropathy with subsequent persistent diarrhea and associated vicious cycles of malnutrition, increased gut permeability and secondary immunodeficiency are particularly devastating in the childhood population. The major causes of chronic enteropathy differ significantly between developed countries and de...

background: eosinophilic gastroenteritis (eg) is rare and is characterized by recurrent eosinophilic infiltration of the gastrointestinal tract and chronic diarrhea. in this report we present a case of eg with acute pancreatitis and deep vein thrombosis (dvt). case presentation: a 30 years old male was admitted to our hospital with the complaints of epigastric pain, vomitting and swelling of hi...

Strongyloides stercoralis is a soil-transmitted nematode endemic throughout tropical and subtropical regions. Although most of the healthy infected individuals are asymptomatic, it can be life-threatening for immunocompromised patients responsible wide range symptoms including chronic diarrhea. Hence, vital to have high suspicion routine screening immunosuppressed in these We report case diarrh...

In most infants and children, the symptoms of acute diarrhea resolve over the course of a few days, but in a small proportion, diarrhea persists and becomes protracted. Protracted diarrhea has been denned as more than four watery stools per day for longer than 2 weeks. The definition of chronic diarrhea is a little controversial. Most experts find this diagnosis appropriate when the infant or c...

<b><i>Background:</i></b> Chronic diarrhea is defined as more than 3 bowel movements per day, or loose stools, stool weight >200 g/day for at least 4 weeks. Accompanying symptoms may include urgency, abdominal pain, cramps. <b><i>Summary:</i></b> A number of causes have to be considered, including inflammatory, neoplastic, malabsorptive, ...