The cause of persistent diarrhea

Diarrhea can be acute when the time patients survive within 2-3 weeks, longer than called chronic diarrhea. In your letter is not clear what other symptoms, weight change it?

If frequent diarrhea means that the disease has appeared long (chronic). Chronic diarrhea has many causes, can be summarized into two groups.


Group 1: no damage in the intestine common irritable bowel syndrome (irritable Bowel syndrome - IBS).

If only irritable bowel syndrome. In bowel disease patients may loose stool, no blood, there may be mucus, abdominal pain, feeling no bowel feces after defecating all, generally weigh less affected patients and the stool tests and colonoscopy found completely normal.

Group 2: due to injury really like colitis and amoebic parasites, bleeding ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease ...

Chronic inflammatory bowel disease is very common in our country. The disease occurs after infection, infected with intestinal parasites. Changes in chronic disease, with episodic progression.

Cause: There are many causes of chronic colitis, including:

- Infections: bacteria such as shigella dysentery syndrome, Salmonella ...

- Infection with protozoa: amoeba, lamblia.

- Parasitic infections: the parasitic worms that live in the colon, such as roundworms, pinworms, whipworms, and the type of intestinal fluke.

- Diet: eat unhealthy food lasts or irritating, intestinal mucosal injury.

- Constipation lasts.

- Colitis secondary to other diseases of the digestive system.

Symptoms: manifestations are diverse

- Gastrointestinal disturbances lasted: stool at the apple, while the liquid. Distribution is often crushed, not the campus, going 2-6 times a day. Patients often feel uncomfortable after defecation, or have a solid sense of want to go again.

- Abdominal distention slightly: localized along the frame of the colon, the patient feels tenderness, discomfort.

- Abdominal pain: the common symptoms. Dull pain in the lower abdomen or pain along the frame of the colon. Increased pain after eating and before defecation. After flatus or bowel pain, then fell over.

- Status changed little body. If a change occurs in people who are just worried about the state of his illness or eating too abstinence.

- Treatment: Treatment of colitis by a doctor to diagnose the cause and then prescribe medication. The drugs used in the treatment or colitis is: Enteral antibiotics (Biceptol, Flagyl, Flagentyl ...) and conditioned drug peristalsis (Visceralgin, Dobridat, Rekalat ...)

- Prevention: There hygiene regime daily food, cooked, boiled drinking, not eating spoiled food, not processed foods from infected food (blue ear disease pork, chicken meat flu ...) do not eat too many fermented foods like yogurt cucumber, tomato ... At the same time, the symptoms of colitis is suspected, require specialist care and proper treatment drugs, correct patient and thorough.

However, you need to see a specialist in digestive diseases to be treated and timely advice.