Causes
Causes may include:
- Food intolerance, such as lactose intolerance
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Medications, including:
- Antibiotics
- Magnesium-containing antacids
- High blood pressure medications
- Quinine
- Cancer chemotherapy
- Laxatives
- Irritable bowel syndrome (episodes of diarrhea often alternate with periods of constipation )
- Injury to the bowel after radiation treatments for cancer
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Malabsorption syndromes, such as:
- Celiac sprue
- Tropical sprue
- Short bowel syndrome
- Whipple's disease
- Intestinal lymphangiectasia
- Diseases of the pancreas and/or gallbladder
- Inflammatory bowel diseases ( ulcerative colitis , Crohn's disease )
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Chronic diseases, such as:
- Liver disease
- Diabetes
- Hyperthyroidism
- Addison's disease
- Pellagra
- Scleroderma
- Amyloidosis
- AIDS
- Colon cancer
- Intestinal surgery
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Infections, including food poisoning, such as:
- Bacterial: Campylobacter, Clostridium difficile, Salmonella, Shigella, and Escherichia coli
- Viral: rotavirus , Norwalk virus , cytomegalovirus , herpes simplex virus , and viral hepatitis
- Parasitic: Giardia lamblia , Entamoeba histolytica , Cryptosporidium,tapeworm , roundworm , flukes
- Fungal: Candida (yeast)
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