Watery stool

Introduction Acute watery stool diarrhea is one of the common clinical symptoms, mainly caused by viruses or enterotoxin-producing bacteria, mostly rotavirus or toxin-producing bacterial infections, especially in infants and young children under two years of age. Summer diarrhea is usually caused by bacterial infections, mostly mucus, with a foul smell; autumn diarrhea is mostly caused by rotavirus, which is more common with dilute water or thin paste, but no odor.

Cause

1, mostly for rotavirus or toxin-producing bacterial infection, especially in infants and young children under two years of age.

2, diarrhea occurs in the autumn and winter, the possibility of rotavirus enteritis is large, occurs in the summer to produce toxic Escherichia coli enteritis is likely.

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Fecal trait

Laboratory inspection

1. Fecal examination: The shape of the feces is mushy, loose or watery, with a large amount or bad smell. When the feces do not contain mucus, pus or blood, it is often suggested that intestinal diarrhea or liver, gallbladder and pancreas are inferior. Sexual diarrhea, such as a small amount of feces, containing mucus, pus and blood is more suggestive of colonic diarrhea.

2. X-ray examination: barium meal or barium enema examination can understand the functional status of the gastrointestinal tract, peristalsis, etc., for small intestinal malabsorption, intestinal tuberculosis, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, lymphoma, colon cancer, etc. Important diagnostic value.

Differential diagnosis

The peak of diarrhea mainly occurs in June-September and October to January of the following year. Summer diarrhea is usually caused by bacterial infections, mostly mucus, with a foul smell; autumn diarrhea is mostly caused by rotavirus, which is more common with dilute water or thin paste, but no odor. Clinical attention is distinguished from intestinal infectious diseases such as bacterial dysentery and cholera.

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