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Suggest Remedy For Occasional Diarrhea With Abdominal Pain

Posted on Thu, 24 Dec 2015

Question: what if I only have occasional diarrhea but it's only every once in a while and it's only one time when I go. I have about three bowel movements per day but occasionally it's watery. I do have occasional abdominal pain dull pain

Answered by Dr. Dr. Klerida Shehu (31 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Following answer to your query...

Detailed Answer:
Hi and thank you for asking!
I read your query and understood your concerns.

As I said earlier to you your symptoms especially diarrhea and abdominal pain may be related to:
- Parasitic infection
- Inflammatory bowel disease

My advice is that you should run some specific test to definitely find out what is causing your symptoms. If you were my patients I would have recommended to do the following exams:
- Blood work (including liver and pancreatic enzymes)
- Stool tests (including stool culture, occult blood test, ova parasite test etc.)
- Abdominal ultrasound
- Upper endoscopy
- Colonoscopy with biopsy

All these examinations are essential to determine the exact nature of your concerns.

Hope this will be of help!
Wish you health!
Dr. Klerida
p.s: If you have more answers, please don't hesitate to ask me again.

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar

Follow up: Dr. Dr. Klerida Shehu (46 minutes later)

when should I worry if it's something more serious like cancer??

Answered by Dr. Dr. Klerida Shehu (6 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Following answer to your query.

Detailed Answer:
Hi back,

For the moment you shouldn't worry about colon cancer. There's no data to suggest for colon cancer or any other serious problems.

However, it's essential to do the above mentioned examinations in order to determine the exact nature of your problems and to definitely exclude colon cancer and other serious problems.

This will help to relieve your stress and anxiety levels.

Wish you health!
Dr. Klerida

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar

Follow up: Dr. Dr. Klerida Shehu (12 hours later)

but if it were cancer wouldn't the symptoms get worse and not better?

Answered by Dr. Dr. Klerida Shehu (11 hours later)

Brief Answer:
You shouldn't worry about colon cancer.

Detailed Answer:
Hi back,

As I said above there's no medical data to suggest colon cancer. If you would have colon cancer your symptoms and clinical datas would have been worse. For the moment you shouldn't worry about colon cancer.

Hope this will be of help!
Wish you health!
Dr. Klerida

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar