Chronic Watery Diarrhea in a Toddler: Think Beyond Toddler’s Diarrhea

Severe, Acute Watery Diarrhea in an Adult

1 Clinial Sciences Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease, Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2 Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 3 Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 4 Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harva...

CHRONIC DIARRHEA DUE TO GANGLIONEUROMA IN A CHILD

Ganglioneuroma is a very rare cause of chronic diarrhea in children. This benign tumor usually presents with diarrhea and failure to thrive. It is necessary for physicians to be familiar with this rare cause of chronic diarrhea. Here we present and discuss such a case.

Oral diosmectite reduces stool output and diarrhea duration in children with acute watery diarrhea.

BACKGROUND & AIMS Diosmectite is a clay used to treat children with acute watery diarrhea. However, its effects on stool output reduction, the key outcome for pediatric antidiarrheal drugs, have not been shown. METHODS Two parallel, double-blind studies of diosmectite efficacy on stool reduction were conducted in children 1 to 36 months old in Peru (n = 300) and Malaysia (n = 302). Inclusion ...

Pancreatic polypeptide hyperplasia causing watery diarrhea syndrome: a case report.

Neuroendocrine tumours of the pancreas can secrete numerous peptides, leading to various recognizable clinical syndromes. The secretion of pancreatic polypeptide has been used as a marker for neuroendocrine tumours but is considered to be a biologically inert peptide. A 37-year-old woman had watery diarrhea syndrome from pancreatic polypeptide hyperplasia. Only 2 other reported cases in the lit...

A 32-year-old man with copious, watery diarrhea.