Patient was educated on causes of diarrhea as follows:
- Several diseases and conditions can cause diarrhea.
- Common causes of diarrhea include- other digestive disorders
- Chronic diarrhea has several other causes, such as Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, celiac disease, microscopic colitis and irritable bowel syndrome.
- Common causes of diarrhea include- infection of the gut
- Infection of the gut is the common cause. This is of sudden onset and is called acute infectious diarrhea.
- Many bacteria, viruses and other germs can cause diarrhea.
- Sometimes the germs come from infected food (food poisoning). Infected water is a cause in some countries.
- Sometimes it is just “one of those germs going about”.
- Viruses are easily spread from one person to another by close contact, or when an infected person prepares food for others.
- Common causes of diarrhea include- gut disorders
- Gut disorders that cause persistent (chronic) diarrhea may be mistaken for acute diarrhea when they first begin – for example, diarrhea caused by ulcerative colitis.
- Other causes of diarrhea are uncommon and include drinking lots of beer, side effects from some medicines and anxiety.
