Health Guide©

DIARRHEA (Travelers diarrhea)

Complications:

• Dehydrations (dry lips and tongue, inelastic skin, sunken eyes, thirst, rapid breathing the passing of little urine, and a sunken fontanelle in infants).
• Death from dehydration.

Common Causes:

• Drinking unboiled and contaminated water.
• Food or medicine allergy.
• Food intolerance (e.g., lactose intolerance or the inability to digest milk sugar).
• Viral, bacterial, or parasitic infection of the intestine (e.g., intestinal flu, food poisoning, amebiasis).

Chronic diarrhea can be due to:

• Irritable bowel syndrome (an intestinal disorder).
• Crohn's disease (chronic inflammation of a part of the digestive tract).
• Ulcerative colitis or the chronic inflammation and ulceration (open sores) of the lining of the colon and rectum.
• Cancer of the colon.
• Malabsorption syndrome.

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