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Basically there are four types of diarrhea. They are osmotic diarrhea, secretory diarrhea, motility-related diarrhea and inflammatory diarrhea.
Diarrhea generally becomes more complicated when it leads to dehydration. Excessive loss of fluids and minerals from the body results in dehydration. Dehydration is common among both adult and children. Patient with acute diarrhea have large amounts of stool, and vomiting. Viral gastroenteritis or bacterial infection is the cause of dehydration among infants and young children.
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Diarrhea is an unpleasant digestive disorder that is caused due to viral infections. When diarrhea persists, the patient may become dehydrated, since it causes loss of significant amount of water and salts from the body. There are various self-care measures that a patient suffering from diarrhea can take to prevent dehydration.
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Diarrhea is generally best treated with home care. However, it is necessary to get medical help if it persists beyond five days and if the patient becomes dehydrated, as evidence by dry mouth or skin, less or nil urination, dizziness, dark colored urine or excessive thirst.
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Diarrhea is disease which is caused due to viral, bacterial and parasite infection. The person suffering from diarrhea feels abdominal cramp, pressure and soft or watery stool. If the treatment for diarrhea is not taken in time then it may worsen the situation and create complications such as dehydration.
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The common causes of chronic diarrhea includes irritable bowel syndrome, over growth of bacteria in small intestine, carbohydrate Malabsorption, diseases which causes infection, post-infectious, colon cancer, laxative abuse, Fat Malabsorption, Endocrine diseases etc.
Bacteria, viral and parasites are not only the cause of diarrhea. Now days there are many drugs in the market whose side effects can cause diarrhea. These medicines can affect the bacterial imbalance of intestine which lead to infection in the stomach and can lead to diarrhea.
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Parasites can enter in the body through contaminated food or water and settle in your digestive system. Parasites are also the one of the cause of diarrhea. Giardia lamblia is a parasite which affects the small intestine and cause diarrhea. It generally affects the individual who travel more. Contaminated drinking water is one of the cause through which this parasite is transmitted. Symptom like blood or pus in stool, are not associated with Giardia lamblia which generally happens in case of other bacteria and parasites. People are affected from this parasite generally shows the symptom like mild fever, abdominal pain etc.
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Bacteria mostly affect the small intestine and colon and generally results in most serious cases of diarrhea. Enterocolitis is caused by bacteria which lead to inflammation of the small intestine and colon. Some of the symptoms of bacterial enterocolitis are inflammation of colon, abdominal pain, fever, blood in stool etc. Campylobacter jejuni, Salmonella, Shigella, and EPEC are the bacteria which generally cause enterocolitis. Bacteria generally affect the people who drink contaminated water or eat contaminated food.
E. coli bacteria are one of the causes of acute diarrhea. There are different kinds of E.coli bacteria in which some are pathogenic and some are non-pathogenic. Generally most of the bacteria are non-pathogenic and reside in intestine and colon. These non-pathogenic E.coli bacteria do not cause disease in the intestine but if they spread outside the intestine, then they cause infection in various body parts like urinary tract or in the blood stream.
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