Chronic secretory diarrhea
Chronic secretory diarrhea: Introduction
Chronic secretory diarrhea: Secretory diarrhea means that there is an increase in the active secretion, or there is an inhibition of absorption.
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causes, and treatments of Chronic secretory diarrhea is available below.
Symptoms of Chronic secretory diarrhea
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Treatments for Chronic secretory diarrhea
- Diet restriction such as limiting milk has no effect on the duration of diarrhea. Medicines such loperamide (Imodium) and bismuth subsalicylate (as found in Pepto Bismol and Kaopectate) may be beneficial however are contraindicated in certain situations
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Home Diagnostic Testing
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- Colon & Rectal Cancer: Home Testing
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Chronic secretory diarrhea: Complications
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Causes of Chronic secretory diarrhea
- Enterotoxins
- Circulating secretagogues (VIP, calcitonin, prostaglandins, serotonin)
- Increased hydrostatic pressure and tissue pressure
- Gastric hypersecretion (Zollinger-Ellison syndrome)
- Pancreatic hypersecretion
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Chronic secretory diarrhea: Undiagnosed Conditions
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Misdiagnosis and Chronic secretory diarrhea
Chronic digestive conditions often misdiagnosed: When diagnosing chronic symptoms
of the digestive tract, there are a variety of conditions...read more »
Intestinal bacteria disorder may be hidden cause: One of the lesser known causes of diarrhea
is an imbalance of bacterial in the gut, sometimes called intestinal...read more »
Antibiotics often causes diarrhea: The use of antibiotics are very likely
to cause some level of diarrhea in patients.
The reason is that antibiotics...read more »
Food poisoning may actually be an infectious disease: Many people who come down
with "stomach symptoms" like diarrhea assume that it's "something I ate" (i.e. food poisoning).
In fact, it's more likely to be an ...read more »
Mesenteric adenitis misdiagnosed as appendicitis in children: Because appendicitis is one of the
more feared conditions for a child with abdominal pain, it can be over-diagnosed
(it can, of course, also fail to...read more »
Celiac disease often fails to be diagnosed cause of chronic digestive symptoms: One of the most common chronic digestive
conditions is celiac disease, a malabsorption disorder with a variety of symptoms...read more »
Chronic digestive diseases hard to diagnose: There is an inherent
difficulty in diagnosing the various types of chronic digestive diseases.
Some of the better known possibilities are peptic ulcer, colon cancer, irritable bowel...read more »
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