Diarrhea

Chronic diarrhea - a way of life for many people due to irritable bowel, they can not control; due to lack of enzymes engaged in digestion; for diabetes, food allergies or intolerances, increased thyroid function, or diseases of the pancreas; in intestinal inflammation (ileitis or ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease); due to the fact that the removed part of the intestine or the mucous sick and bad food sucks. You will be able to determine the cause of your diarrhea on the following grounds.

If the child permanent diarrhea due to the fact that once the food passes through the intestine, without stopping, it is likely suction disorder such as steatorrhea, whereby abnormal mucosa and does not take nutrients.

If chronic diarrhea, intermittent but (in one day normal stool, other liquid), the diagnosis - irritable bowel, inflammatory bowel disease or intolerance to certain foods.

If diarrhea alternating with constipation (and you're not a fan of laxatives), then you need to remember about colon cancer - and fast! But do not forget: irritable bowel and longtime diabetes can also provide cycles diarrhea - constipation.

If the diarrhea does not pass, and you rarely have a comfortable chair, maybe you increased thyroid function. In this case, there are some other effects - nervousness, irritability, rapid pulse, insomnia, palpitations, heat intolerance, excessive sweating. But the teenager this chronic diarrhea is most often the result of intestinal inflammation, infection or malabsorption.

You may lactase deficiency - a very common pathology in perfectly healthy people in everything else, at which there is no lactase, the enzyme needed to digest lactose, milk and dairy products. When you absorb lactose in any form and in large quantities, the case ends with abdominal bloating gas and diarrhea. Changing your diet gives you a miraculous healing.

If the diarrhea stool look greasy, foul smell and swim, they are likely to contain excess fat - the result of poor absorption in the small intestine.

Mucus mixed with feces, reflecting the irritation of the large intestine. Ulcerative colitis can be a true pus. The presence of blood within or outside of the mucus indicates many disease from irritable bowel, and chronic inflammation to dysentery, cancer, polyps and diverticulitis.

If the liquid excrements no pus or blood, you may simply bowel irritation. How many times have you "go in big," is also important. Less than six times per day suggests that the problem is in the upper part, may be due to poor absorption in the small intestine; more than six times - indicating disease of the lower divisions, anywhere in the colon or rectum, especially if you have irresistible impulses every time.

If diarrhea occur mostly in the morning, likely irritated or nervous bowel. If you wake up because of it at night, you should think about improving thyroid function, diabetes, ulcerative colitis or ileite.

Your weight - a significant indicator of what is happening. If you have some time diarrhea, and weight stable, you probably have enough lactase, or food allergy. But if you lose weight, if possible cancer, increased thyroid function, and inflammatory bowel disease, especially if you start to lose weight before the appearance of diarrhea.

Chronic diarrhea may reflect disease that initially is not associated with the intestines. For example, a tumor called a carcinoid, secretes a hormone that causes coughing, diarrhea and occasional redness of the skin. Such tumors should be removed, since they are able to spread.

People with chronic lung disease, and cystic fibrosis may also suffer from diarrhea.

If most of your life your intestines working normally and all of a sudden you become a "run", it is clear that there may be other reasons. One need not be a medical Sherlock Holmes to establish a link between these symptoms and a recent trip to Asia, Africa, Latin America - in fact, almost any place other than your home. Or if you have diarrhea, vomiting and pain the whole body, think about acute viral infection or food poisoning.

Many medicines can trigger diarrhea. The best known in this regard, laxatives, antibiotics (which kill normal bacterial intestinal inhabitants, leading to the growth of pathological bacteria - and diarrhea), digitalis, quinidine, pills that reduce blood sugar, antacids, drugs against high blood pressure lowering drugs cholesterol, anti-cancer, colchicine (used for gout attacks) and intestinal exposure.

If, nevertheless, it remains unclear which category gets your diarrhea, here are some additional details.

If diarrhea occurs almost immediately after a meal is probably the case in low-quality food. You were not poisoned by bacteria, but the toxic material that they have identified in their contaminated food. If you're having dinner with your friends, find out whether there will be the same with them. But if the symptoms do not appear for at least 12 hours after you've eaten the cream or cream cake, you probably, bacterial food poisoning.

If you can not establish any connection between what you eat and your intestinal phenomena, rather, you have viral gastroenteritis. It is usually short and take place in a few days, no matter what you are going to do.

Or, maybe you have something to drink? Can such a body's reaction after eating certain types of alcohol.

You prefer to eat undercooked pork? Diarrhea may be the result of trichinosis.

The outer appearance of bowel movements can provide some additional clues.

For example.

If there is mucus with or without blood, intestinal infection possible.

If the chair is watery, the cause is probably a virus or infection giardia - beetles, which became famous a few years ago when they infected the water in St. Petersburg. Since then, giardia appeared in other cities and rural areas throughout the world.

If liquid feces are a greenish color, you probably infected by Salmonella (but Giardia may also give such color). Infection with Salmonella has become a real problem in the US because of the antibiotics that were given to livestock for growth promotion. With prolonged use of antibiotics harmless bacteria present in the body of these animals become resistant to them. When these bacteria enter the human digestive system, causing diarrhea, which has been difficult to treat.

Temperature accompanying diarrhea usually indicates infection. If nervous people get diarrhea, they are not the temperature rises.

If you started the diarrhea that does not go, do not limit your self-lomotilom, Kaopectate or any other fixing means in the hope that everything will go. Tell your health care. Diarrhea extending over two or three weeks, may be due to various reasons. Topping the list of inflammatory bowel disease, a bacterial infection, certain medications, or worms, amoebas and other parasites that you are infected. Once the culprit is found (and this may require repeated stool analysis), appropriate treatment can help you.

If everything else is in order, and diarrhea is the only complaint, the cause is usually found among those listed here. In addition to all the above, the most common causes of diarrhea in our society - the stress and abuse of laxatives.

Symptom: diarrhea