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| Question: | What can I do to stop chronic diarrhoea? |
| Answer: | The most important thing is to determine the cause of the diarrhoea. The first step is a thorough examination by a doctor, and then appropriate investigations. These would certainly include examination of your faeces in a laboratory for any infecting agents, abnormal cells or blood. Another probable investigation would be blood tests to find any diseases that may have diarrhoea as a component.
Diarrhoea has scores of different causes including infections, diseases of food absorption, allergies, cancer, gut inflammations, liver disease, tuberculosis, stress, diabetes, psychiatric diseases, kidney failure and a host of others.
Once the cause of the diarrhoea is found, the appropriate treatment can be given. Treating any chronic condition without determining its cause is foolish and dangerous.
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