Causes of Chronic Diarrhea
Diarrhea lasting for more than 4 weeks is considered as chronic diarrhea and need to be evaluated to exclude serious underlying pathology. Chronic diarrhea is one of the common cause of bad health state of many persons. In contrast to acute diarrhea, most of the causes of chronic diarrhea are generally noninfectious. The following are the causes of chronic diarrhea:
- Secretory causes of chronic diarrhea: Excessive use of stimulant laxatives, chronic ingestion of alcohol, certain drugs and toxins, endogenous laxatives like bile acids, idiopathic secretory diarrhea; bowel resection, disease, or fistula (reduced absorption), certain bacterial infections, Addison's disease, congenital electrolyte absorption defects, partial bowel obstruction which may be due to fecal impaction, hormone-producing tumors (carcinoid, medullary cancer of thyroid, mastocytosis, gastrinoma, colorectal villous adenoma) are the secretory causes of chronic diarrhea.
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Know about MonaVie
Monavie is a Multi Level Marketing (MLM) company, which produce and distribute nutritional beverage. The nutritional beverages of Monavie are produced from blended fruit juice concentrates and some of the products are with freeze-dried acai berry powder. The company was founded in the year 2003 to market and distribute diet and weight loss supplement products. The MonaVie nutritional beverage was launched in the year 2005 as a MLM (Multi Level Marketing) company with main office of the company in th Salt Lake City, Utah in United States. MonaVie nutritional beverages are claimed to contain high concentration of antioxidants and thus have health benefits, but there is controversy over the claim of health benefits of Monavie nutritional beverages. Many organizations and individuals have questioned the legality of health benefit claims of Monavie nutritional beverages.
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