"diarrhea is defined as having stools that occur more than three times a day and a looser than usual specifically 200 grams 24 hours is considered diagnostic but as you can imagine trying to measure the weight of stools in everyone referring to diarrhea would be a mess literally so first off the call divide them into acute and chronic causes for start acute diarrhea is defined as lasting less than four weeks and is often caused by infections that they usually eat a viral or toxin-mediated typically they will resolve spontaneously I see cases lasting more than four weeks need to be divided into either organic or functional causes and the difference between them is that organic causes can be detected or Quantified through testing while functional causes cannot samples of organic causes include celiacs disease inflammatory bowel disease like ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease we can also have bacterial and parasitic infections pain and of course intestinal neoplasms on the other hand functional causes of chronic diarrhea include irritable bowel syndrome lactose intolerance food alcohol how then can we begin to narrow down the causes when we encounter a patient with diarrhea let's first tackle how to distinguish functional from organic diarrhea firstly the duration of secondly the volume of organic diarrhea is usually larger than in functional next we look for the presence or absence of blood functional will never have blood while organic often does we can also ask about the naming organic doesn't have any specific pattern but may wake the patient up at night well functional is usually in the morning and will not wake the patient up this is also closely tied to stress where organic diarrhea doesn't have much Association to stress but functional diarrhea often coincides with we take this few seconds our valued loyal listener about the best health and fitness podcast shows from the Nez pod Studios join us as we give you the best of the best health and wellness updates you can rely on for the treatment of chronic classic functional medicine Back to Basics health tips and special updates from the best doctors in the United States of America check out this health and wellness podcast shows explore Health talk weekly healthy lifestyle matters excellent Health digest healthy and free daily and last but not least weekly Health and Fitness also check out nasty boy CC the truest story never told Fiction podcast for that real-life on-the-go experience with the 27 year old Golden Boy Who made our guest he tells us about his story as it happens in real time and in real life it's nasty boy CC the truest story never told go get a load of that happiness because happiness is healthy as we know it join us every week as we continue to provide you the best of health and fitness Wellness updates from around the globe enjoy the show"
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