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Okay, so you can have either acute diarrhea or chronic diarrhea. Basically, acute diarrhea
is something that a lot of people can have intermittently, if they've eaten out, if they've
gotten food poisoning, or they've traveled somewhere. Usually those are short lived and
gets out of your system in a couple of days.
Now, chronic diarrhea, on the other hand means it happens every day and you're multitude
of bowel movements, and that happens in patients that have something called colitis, ulcerative
colitis, Chron's disease, or inflammatory bowel disease and also in some people that
have irritable bowel syndrome. So anytime you have lots of diarrhea for a long period
of time, that's called chronic diarrhea. So chronic diarrhea is associated with something
called colitis which is inflammation of the colon and there's a lot of different types
of colitis.
There is inflammatory bowel disease which is more like an ulcerative type disease such
as Chron's disease or ulcerative colitis. Then you can have colitis that's non-bloody
and that's basically like lymphocytic colitis, or congeal colitis. Then you can have infectious
colitis that's for like either c-dif or E-coli or salmonella, or shodella. Things that you
may pick up from eating out. Now those types of diarrhea are more likely to cause acute
diarrhea as opposed to chronic diarrhea.