Git /Diarrhea

Question 1

Diarrhea

Answer 1

3 or more loose or liquid stool per day

Question 2

Osmotic diarrhoea

Answer 2

occurs when water-soluble molecules are poorly absorbed from the intestinal lumen resulting in retention of water in the intestine.

🔺Osmotic diarrhoea stops with fasting.

Question 3

Secretory diarrhoea

Answer 3

🔺occurs as a consequence of an increase in the active secretion of fluid and electrolytes into the intestinal lumen and results in a significantly larger volume of liquid stool than osmotic diarrhoea,

🔺 persists in spite of fasting.
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Question 4

Diarrhoea

Answer 4

three or more loose or liquid stools per day.