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Introduction
Acute Diarrhea
Chronic diarrhea
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Acute diarrhea, presenting
syndromes, duration less than 2 weeks.
- Watery diarrhea
- Large volume, watery stools suggest
small bowel etiology.
- Infectious agents include cholera or
toxigenic E. coli.
- Reduced food intake has no effect on
symptoms.
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- Malabsorbtion may also produce large
volume watery stools.
- Associated with much rectal gas and
frothy stools.
- Reduced food intake reduces symptoms.
- Dysentery
- Diarrhea with bloody mucus.
- Indicates inflammation and ulceration of
colonic mucosa.
- Colicky pain
- Pus cells seen in fecal smears.
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Shiga dysentery, mucosal edema with focal
hemorrhages. Strickland, Tropical Medicine, 8th Ed. |
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The most common causes of
diarrhea lasting
less than two weeks. |
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