Diarrhea

Lactose is a disaccharide sugar and it’s mainly found in dairy products. It’s made up of glucose and galactose. The enzyme lactase breaks down the carbohydrate lactose. Lactase is produced by cells in the small bowel. If lactase is nonexistent or lacking, lactose intolerance occurs. There are ways to classify people with lactase and without lactase. People with are called lactase persistent (LP) and without are called lactase non-persistent (LNP). There are many types of lactose intolerances.…

muscles in the GI tract helps in the digestion of food and with the production of many different hormones and enzymes. Crohn’s disease is a fatal disease caused by the inflammation of your digestive tract, which can lead to abdominal pain, severe diarrhea, fatigue, weight loss and malnutrition. Inflammation caused by Crohn's disease can involve different areas of the digestive tract in different people. The inflammation caused by Crohn's disease often spreads deep into the layers of affected…

Breakdown of staple lines, Leakage of stomach contents into the abdomen, and Nutritional deficiencies causing health problems. Gastric bypass surgery also may cause dumping syndrome symptoms include nausea, weakness, sweating, faintness, may cause diarrhea after eating, gallstones, anemia, osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease. The more extensive the gastric bypass surgery, the greater the risk for complications and nutritional deficiencies. People who undergo extensive bypasses of the normal…

outbreak tragedy took place on 12 – 15th May, 2000. Reported 5 people died, 27 hospitalized and thousands sickened. This outbreak was due to the presence of EHEC O157 in the water supply of the small town. Symptoms started with reported cases of bloody diarrhea, gastrointestinal infections and accompanied with other symptoms. Even with these reported cases, the Walkertown Public Utilities Commission still insisted the water was good enough for consumption. Test confirmed EHEC contamination of…

The 44-year-old obese female is admitted to the emergency room with fever, severe abdominal pain on the upper right side that radiates to the scapula and nausea. I believe this patient is experiencing acute cholecystitis, gallbladder attack. The signs and symptoms of acute cholecystitis includes: intense or sudden pain in the upper right part of the stomach, worsening pain with deep breathing extending to the lower part of the right shoulder blade, shortness of breath due to pain, nausea and…

heartburn; complaints of chronic diarrhea; abdominal tenderness; non-reducible, left upper abdominal incisional hernia; continuous uncontrollable drooling; physical changes related to gunshot wound. MP denies current suicidal thoughts.…

Introduction Norovirus infection causes inflammation in the stomach and intestines (gastroenteritis) and food poisoning. It is caused by exposure to a virus in a group of similar viruses called noroviruses. Norovirus spreads very easily from person to person (is very contagious). It often occurs in places where people are in close contact, such as schools, hospitals, and restaurants. You can get it from food, water, surfaces, or other people who have the virus (are contaminated). Norovirus is…

EGFR targeted drugs: They attack the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). It helps cancer cells to grow. Side effects: -skin problems -headache -tiredness -fever -diarrhea. • Complementary and alternative therapies: Alternative treatments: this means it is used instead of medical treatment. Theses methods are not safe or effective. The biggest danger in them is that they Delays the medical treatments so the cancer…

interviews were conducted with all those who reported falling ill after eating at the “Enviro Taco Bar”. Data was then organized and placed into an excel spreadsheet and cleaned accordingly. The case definition was defined by those who experienced “diarrhea, or vomiting, or fever” within 5 days of eating at “Enviro Taco Bar”. The total amount of consumed food items by all individuals was then put into a table. Odds ratios (as this was a case-series study) were then calculated for various foods…

products, thinking that may help. However, nothing completely relieved those symptoms, or healed the rash, until after I had stopped taking the Benicar and the diarrhea had stopped. December 3, 2011- I ended up going to the emergency room at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital @ Hamilton, again. I had severe nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal tenderness and pain that was quite intense. There was lab work done again and another abdominal ultrasound was done. The results of that…