ALLMedicine™ Diarrhea Center

Jun 11th, 2021 - If wounds are infected with bacteria resistant to an empirical antibiotic regimen, effective wound treatment will be delayed. This can delay wound healing and lengthen hospital stays, increasing the costs to patients. Long-term antibiotic use can ...

Jun 11th, 2021 - The illness cost borne by households, known as out-of-pocket expenditure, was 74% of the total health expenditure in Bangladesh in 2017. Calculating economic burden of diarrhea of low-income urban community is important to identify potential cost ...

Jun 9th, 2021 - short bowel syndrome (SBS) is a rare, highly disabling, life-threatening condition due to extensive intestinal resections, characterized by diarrhea, malabsorption and malnutrition. SBS is the main cause of intestinal failure (SBS-IF). The primary...

Jun 9th, 2021 - A man in his 70s received anticancer chemotherapy with the anti-programmed cell death protein-ligand 1 antibody atezolizumab for non-small cell lung cancer. Ten days later, he developed diarrhea and skin rash, which were suspected to be due to imm...

Jun 9th, 2021 - Canine circovirus (canineCV) has been found to be associated with vasculitis, hemorrhage, hemorrhagic enteritis, and diarrhea of canines. CanineCV, like other circoviruses, may also be associated with lymphoid depletion and immunosuppression. This...

Mar 6th, 2020 - The NCCN Guidelines for Management of Immunotherapy-Related Toxicities provide interdisciplinary guidance on the management of immune-related adverse events (irAEs) resulting from cancer immunotherapy. These NCCN Guidelines Insights describe sympt...

Oct 1st, 2019 - Acute noninfectious diarrhea is a common phenomenon in intensive care unit patients. Multiple treatments are suggested but the most effective management is unknown. A working group of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, aimed to eva...

Sep 18th, 2019 - Chronic diarrhea affects about 5% of the population overall. Altered bile acid metabolism is a common but frequently undiagnosed cause. We performed a systematic search of publication databases for studies of assessment and management of bile acid...

Aug 12th, 2019 - If you shudder at the thought of having a colonoscopy to check for hidden colon cancer, chances are it's the "prep" that's stoking your apprehension. It's certainly a major inconvenience: getting ready for the procedure takes much longer — an aver...

Jul 28th, 2019 - The evaluation of patients with chronic watery diarrhea represents a diagnostic challenge for clinicians because organic causes, including inflammatory bowel disease, microscopic colitis, and chronic infection, must be differentiated from function...

Jun 16th, 2021 - controls symptoms of diarrhea, including Travelers’ DiarrheaAnti-diarrheal

Jun 16th, 2021 - controls symptoms of diarrhea, including Travelers’ DiarrheaAnti-diarrheal

Jun 15th, 2021 - For temporary relief of symptoms of diarrhea, mucousy stools, intestinal bloating.

Jun 15th, 2021 - Ciprofloxacin tablet is a fluoroquinolone antibacterial indicated in adults (18 years of age and older) with the following infections caused by designated, susceptible bacteria and in pediatric patients where indicated: Skin and Skin Structure Inf...

Jun 15th, 2021 - Ciprofloxacin tablet is a fluoroquinolone antibacterial indicated in adults (18 years of age and older) with the following infections caused by designated, susceptible bacteria and in pediatric patients where indicated: Skin and Skin Structure Inf...

May 20th, 2021 - Two widely used rotavirus vaccines performed comparably in a meta-analysis, reducing risk of rotavirus gastroenteritis (RVGE) by more than 60% in young children. While the findings evidence a high protection level and low-risk safety profile, inve...

Jan 4th, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Patients with severe COVID-19 were significantly more likely than those with milder cases to have GI symptoms of anorexia and diarrhea, as well as...

Jan 3rd, 2021 - Christina Fuhrman contracted a C. diff infection in 2012, and her daughter Pearl contracted one in 2015. C. diff, a bacterium that causes diarrhea and colitis, is a superbug fueled by the overuse of antibiotics.   COLUMBIA, Mo. — A memory haunts C...

Dec 13th, 2020 - The drug review panel for the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has endorsed the approval of several cancer therapies. The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended granting conditional marketing authorization for trastuz...

Dec 9th, 2020 - When chatting at cocktail parties about his job, Mark Ratain, an oncologist and pharmacologist at the University of Chicago, often asks a short riddle: "Your doctor gives you a prescription for a new drug. The pharmacist says, 'Make sure you take ...