Lactose intolerance is very unusual in babies. Note: If your child has a severe case of diarrhea, she may temporarily have trouble producing lactase, and as a result she might have symptoms of lactose intolerance for a week or two. Poisoning If your child has diarrhea and is vomiting, and...
The difficulty with treating a toddler or young child, is the discrepancy between what they should do, and what they will do. As the mother of 3 children, I understand this well! With adults, we can say, “Do these 4 things and you’ll be fine.” And the adult can follow through....
(a type of sugar found in dairy). Experts believe that lactose intolerance is one of the most common reasons both children and adults suffer from diarrhea, especially when it’s chronic. What’s tricky about lactose intolerance is that it might not start until your adult years or emerge due...
For example, inexperienced travelers, travelers who like to experience the local cuisine, travelers visiting friends and relatives, and young adult travelers will more often be exposed to higher risk meals and situations, thus increasing their likelihood of getting an infection. Understanding the ...
Diarrhea is considered acute if it lasts for less than 14 days, and chronic when it persists for more than 14 days. Acute, self-limiting diarrhea is a relatively common problem in dogs and cats and usually requires minimal diagnostic testing and therapy. In contrast to most animals with acute...
Diarrhea is defined as ≥ 3 watery or loose stools in a 24-hour period. There are a multitude of etiologies which can be classified based on the underlying mechanism of disease.
Normal baby stool can look a lot like an adult’s diarrheal stool. Healthy baby poop is often soft and runny, and (especially in the first month) quite frequent. One 2-week-old with 10 runny stools a day may be perfectly healthy, while another 4-month-old with 3 stools a day, all...
During these two winters, a subset of Sentinelles general practitioners (GPs) identified and included adult patients who presented with AD and who filled out a questionnaire and returned a stool specimen for virological examination. All stool specimens were tested for astrovirus, group A rotavirus, ...
Ignoring diarrhea in a puppy lowers the immune system, and can dehydrate even an adult dog. Puppies can get a bug much easier if they are down and weak, so diarrhea is not something to ignore. Ask your vet for a sheet on what to do for diarrhea. Each vet has slightly different versio...
(18%) who were younger than 5 years of age and in 2 of 24 of the older children (8%).13 Diarrhea is less common in adults with influenza than in children under 16 years of age.14 In a recent outbreak of avian influenza A (H5N1) in Vietnam, all 10 adult patients presented with ...