Laboratory Evaluation of Functional Diarrhea and Diarrhea-Predominant Irritable Bowel Syndrome in Adults
Publication Date: September 2, 2019
Key Points
Key Points
These guidelines apply to the evaluation of the immunocompetent patient with “watery” diarrhea of at least four weeks duration.
- This excludes those patients with bloody diarrhea; diarrhea with signs of fat malabsorption; presentations with alarm features such as weight loss, anemia, and hypoalbuminemia; those patients with a family history of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), colon cancer, or celiac disease; and those with a travel history to regions with recognized specific diarrhea-related pathogens.
Treatment
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