Diarrhea, acute
Description | Basic evaluations: Full blood count, ESR or CRP, sodium, potassium, calcium, total protein, creatinine, lipase, GOT, GPT, AP, gamma-GT, blood cultures on suspicion of invasive intestinal infection Additional tests for etiological evaluation: Stool culture and antigen-evidence Small children (0-7 years): Rotavirus, adenovirus, jejunal campylobacter, clostridium difficile, salmonella, Yersinia, staphylococcus, clostridium difficile Adults: Salmonella, campylobacter, Yersinia, aeromonas hydrophilia, adeno virus, rotavirus, norovirus, pathogen E. coli (EHEC), staphylococcus aureus, bacillus cereus (both have a short incubation time of 2-7 hours), clostridium difficile with toxin-evidence Stool for parasites: Worm eggs, lamblia- and ameba cysts, cryptosporidia, microsporidia etc. Stool for blood (hemoccult or immunological) Serology: Yersinia, salmonella, campylobacter, rotavirus, HIV (consent required), ameba, hepatitis A, hepatitis E, also consider Hantavirus-infections (Hantaan, Puumula, Dobrova). Pancreas insufficiency: Elastase in stool (more likely chronic diarrhea) Allergy: Food allergy, allergen-specific IgE, IgG (minor meaningfulness), histamine-intolerance, diamine-oxidase Medication anamnesis and toxicology: CDT (on suspicion of alcoholism), arsen, mercury, chrome, iron, laxatives, antibiotics, L-thyroxin, H2-antagonists and others Endocrinology: TSH (on suspicion of hyperthyroidism), chromogranin A in the serum, gastrin and gastrin-stimulation test (on suspicion of Zollinger-Ellison syndrome, see function tests) Celiac disease/sprue: Endomysium-antibodies, gliadin-antibodies in children Function tests: Xylose test (on suspicion of malabsorption in the proximal small intestine), lactose intolerance test (on suspicion of lactase-deficiency), pancreolauryl-test (on suspicion of pancreas insufficiency) Please also refer to section “malabsorption” |
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