### symptom:

Diarrhea
* Eat more soluble fiber.
* Most diarrhea causes dehydration
  - illnesses
  - rapid dehydration
  - severe illnesses
* Most diarrhea has color
  - yellow color
* Most diarrhea is caused by cholera
  - diseases
  - effects
  - sickness
  - small intestine diseases
  - viruses
  - spread through the water supply in areas where hygiene and sanitation are lacking
* Most diarrhea leads to dehydration
  - diagnoses
  - intestinal problems
* Some diarrhea affects tourists.
* Some diarrhea causes deficiencies
  - potassium deficiencies
* Some diarrhea develops in stages
  - terminal stages
* Some diarrhea has emotional patterns
  - opposite patterns
  - increases urination
* Some diarrhea is caused by bacterial infection
  - congestion
  - parasites
* Some diarrhea lasts for months
  - several weeks
  - leads to death
* Some diarrhea requires attention
  - urgent attention
* associates with food
  - ingest food
  - salmonella infection
* becomes marked, with soft or liquid stools containing mucus, pus, and often blood.
* begins pastey, then becomes watery.
* can be a normal part of transitioning to a healthier diet
  - serious problem
  - side effect of many medications, particularly antibiotics
  - slight bother or a warning of a serious medical condition
  - symptom of many things
  - acute or chronic
  - almost as rough on the anus as constipation
  - as irritating to the anus as constipation
  - bothersome, discover what causes it
  - dangerous in newborns and infants
  - due to excessive fruit juice or to a food allergy
  - either acute or chronic
  - harmful to children if it leads to dehydration
  - infectious in that it easily can be transmitted from person to person
* can be life-threatening in a small child
  - to a young kitten
  - quite severe and even progress to bloody dysentery
  - significant
  - symptomatic of a number of health problems
  - continue for over a week with the stools becoming less frequent and then more firm
* causes a loss of zinc
  - altered absorption of nutrients from the gastrointestinal tract
* causes loss of body fluid, which can lead to dehydration, a serious medical problem
  - minerals including sodium, potassium, magnesium and chloride
  - rashes in most children, too
* combined with gas deadly combination.
* comes from an increased rate of passage of stool through the colon
  - on gradually
* common ailment in the third world
  - factor to trigger a diaper rash
* common problem among visitors to new countries
  - for lots of people
* common problem in both cats and dogs
  - infants and children
  - of immune deficient patients
  - sign of many gastrointestinal diseases
* common symptom and bleeding an almost constant concomitant symptom
  - in returning travelers
  - symptom, due to alcohol's effect on the pancreas
* continues and eating milk products continues
  - to be the most frequent medical complaint of travelers
* frequently starts at night, and a small child can get dehydrated very quickly.
* increases fecal loss, and achlorhydria decreases the amount absorbed.
* indicates severe illness.
* is almost always infectious in origin
  - non-existent now
  - among the most common of all medical problems related to travel
  - bloody or black
  - brown and mostly fluid
  - by far the most common side effect of misoprostol
  - certain to cause embarassment
* is common in puppies
  - zinc-deficient populations
  - the next morning
  - with arsenic, but rare with cyanide
  - dangerous if a person becomes dehydrated
  - encountered by birds for many reasons
* is extremely rare
  - watery or explosive
* is frequent and watery bowel movements
* is frequently a side effect of chemotherapy
  - infrequent but like mouth sores can be serious
  - insidious
  - moderate to severe and is projectile
  - more common and it can vary in consistency and character
  - much less common in the breastfed child
  - notorious
* is often green in color
  - worse in the morning and after meals
  - part of dysentery
* is present if loose stools persist
  - in only one of three patients with abscess
  - seen when the an infant is teething
  - sometimes slow to improve
  - uniformly present and is generally severe
  - usually watery and yellowish from eating too much milk or from a disease
  - very contagious
* kills an estimated two million children a year across the world.
* lasts more than one day.
* leads to acute dehydration and loss of body fluid
  - metabolic alkalosis through the loss of gastrointestinal hydrogen ions
* less significant symptom in adults than in children.
* means frequent loose bowel movements.
* means having many loose stools in the course of a day, and passing a lot of stool
  - runny or watery bowel movements
* occur with bloody stools.
* occurs due to damage in the cells that maintain intestinal integrity
  - infrequently
  - quite frequently during chemotherapy and can stem from a number of causes
* often is associated with nausea and vomiting
  - leads to a significant loss of potasium
  - occurs in infected children
* passes a large volume of body fluid with the stools
  - through the large intestines
* peculiar way of defining constipation.
* predominates in acute infection.
* presents concern.
* produces excessively watery feces.
* progresses to a mustard colored watery consistency.
* reduces the absorption of all nutrients.
* refers to any condition that results in an increased fluid component to the stool
  - the passage of loose or watery stools three or more times a day
* remains one of the two most common medical complaints of humanity.
* requires care.
* responds to acid antisecretory therapy.
* rids the body of bacteria or toxins in the digestive system.
* seems to be due to transit acceleration due to exocrine pancreatic malfunction.
* sign of poor absorption.
* sometimes occurs within the first week or two
* sudden increase in frequency and looseness of bowel movements
  - of the stool
  - the number and looseness of bowel movements
* takes away fluid from the body and can cause dehydration.
* tends to be bad smelling and very watery.
* very common ailment all over the world
  - problem in childhood
  - imprecise term and means different things to different people