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Symptoms of Giardia can include stomach pain, vomiting, and fever, so if you’re experiencing these symptoms along with pale stool that is yellow-tinged, it would be a good idea to check in with ...
Impaired digestion or absorption can result in fatty stools. Possible causes include exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, with poor digestion from lack of lipases, loss of bile salts, which reduces micelle formation, and small intestinal disease-producing malabsorption. Various other causes include certain medicines that block fat absorption or ...
Older children or adults generally present with a wide range of signs and symptoms that overlap with other disorders. [5] They may have diarrhoea, stomach pain, vomiting, or poor growth, a sign of malabsorption. They may have signs of bile duct problems, like itchiness, jaundice, pale stool, or dark
The symptoms most commonly associated with chronic pancreatitis, regardless of the cause, can include weight loss, diarrhea, and cramping. Accordingly, most people who have chronic pancreatitis ...
The most common signs of jaundice in adults are a yellowish discoloration of the white area of the eye and skin [13] with scleral icterus presence indicating a serum bilirubin of at least 3 mg/dl. [14] Other common signs include dark urine (bilirubinuria) and pale fatty stool (steatorrhea). [15]
Acholia or hypocholia [1] is pallor of the feces, which lack their normal brown colour, as a result of impaired bile secretion into the bowel. [2] Acholia is a sign pointing to reduced or lacking flow of conjugated bilirubin into the bowel, as a result of a problem in the liver itself or in the biliary tree.
Shigellosis, known historically as dysentery, is an infection of the intestines caused by Shigella bacteria. [1] [3] Symptoms generally start one to two days after exposure and include diarrhea, fever, abdominal pain, and feeling the need to pass stools even when the bowels are empty. [1]
Sapovirus is a genetically diverse genus of single-stranded positive-sense RNA, non-enveloped viruses within the family Caliciviridae. [1] [2] Together with norovirus, sapoviruses are the most common cause of acute gastroenteritis (commonly called the "stomach flu" although it is not related to influenza) in humans and animals.