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Symptoms of disease - Diarrhea

Frequent or single bowel movements with the allocation of liquid stercorous mass.

The mass of feces healthy adults ranges from 100 to 300 g/day and depends on the amount of fiber in the diet and the amount of remaining water in them and undigested substances. Diarrhea can be acute, if its duration is not more than 2-3 weeks., and chronic, if diarrhea lasts for more than 3 weeks. The concept of chronic diarrhoea includes also systematically bulky stools, weight exceeding 300 g/day. Diarrhea appears in the case, when the number of water in the stool is increased from 60% to 90%. In patients with impaired absorption of nutrients prevails polyfaecalia, i.e. an unusually large number of stercorous mass presented undigested the remnants of food. In violation of the motor activity of the bowel chair can be frequent and liquid, but the daily amount may not exceed 200-300 g. Thus, even the initial analysis of the characteristics of diarrhoea allows you to set the pathophysiological the cause of the increase in the volume of fecal masses and can facilitate the diagnosis and choice of treatment method.

Which diseases there is Diarrhea

• Intestinal infections
• Terminal ileitis
• The syndrome of short bowel
• Brainerd diarrhea
• Whipple's Disease
• Amyloidosis
• Hodgkin Lymphoma
• Primary lymphangiectasia
• Total variable hypogammaglobulinemia
• Ulcerative colitis
• Crohn's Disease
• Irritable bowel syndrome
• Endocrine enteropathy

Which doctor should I contact if there is a Diarrhea

• Infectious Disease Specialist
• Gastroenterologist
• Endocrinologist

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Do you have Diarrhea? You should be very careful approach to your health in general. People pay not enough attention to the symptoms of the disease and don't realize that these diseases can be critically dangerous. There are many diseases that in the beginning didn't manifest in our body, but in the end it turns out, unfortunately, it have already been treated too late. Every disease has its own specific features typical symptoms - called symptoms of the disease. Definition of symptoms is the first step in the diagnosis of diseases in general. You just need a few times a year to be screened by a doctor, not only to prevent a terrible disease, but also to maintain a healthy spirit in a body and the organism in general.

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