Your Common Diarrhea

A couple of months back, I was assigned to report on a common topic which is diarrhea. I was informed by my infectious disease consultant to find common and some rare causes of diarrhea. So I did some research for my report about the common disease diarrhea.

Diarrhea is defined as passage of stools of >200g/d and is categorized to acute, persistent and chronic. Diarrhea affects million of people around the world annually and is a major cause of mortality worldwide. I dealt with the infectious causes of diarrhea which are usually common among acute diarrhea. Chronic diarrhea have a wide range of causes aside from infectious causes. Viruses like your rotavirus and adenovirus, bacterias like your campylobacter and salmonella, Protozoans like your amoeba and giardia are just some of infectious causes of your common diarrhea.

The corner stone of treatment for diarrhea is still fluid replacement. Fluid replacement with water plus your oral hydration salts are indicated on patients with diarrhea. Antibiotics to cover for your common bacterial and protozoal causes are given if they are indicated. Antimotility agents could also be given in adjunct to your oral hyrdration and antibiotics.

Diarrhea might not be an easy disease after all.