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Contents 1 Spelling Differences 2 Serious Disease? 3 Another cause? 4 List of causes of diarrhea 5 Treatments? Anyone? 6 Language 7 Diorite should redirect here. 8 Wording 9 Good redirects 10 Good redirects Ⅱ: Trots?! 11 The shits 12 Severity

Spelling Differences

Could we please use Commonwealth spelling (diarrhoea)? It is much more true to the Latin spellings, as opposed to Noah Webster's dumbed-down version of English spelling. --69.156.14.76 (talk) 21:37, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia prefers neither; only consistency is preferred. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 21:45, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Serious Disease?

Article lists Montezuma's Revenge as a serious disease of which diarrhea is a symptom? This doesn't sound correct... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.95.80.227 (talk) 20:21, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Another cause?

I thought that withdrawal (specifically from opiates) would be mentioned in this article, since it is so frequently observed when discontinuing long-term use. *Vendetta* _{(whois talk edits)} 18:21, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

List of causes of diarrhea

I started a list called List of causes of diarrhea. Example of use... "diagnosis may involve searching for other causes of diarrhea" Judging from my gastro textbook, it may get long. Edits/comments/help welcome. Gastro guy 02:12, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Treatments? Anyone?

There are more than enough reasons why you get diarrhea (virus, etc.), or potential laxatives like prunes or fiber, that can help soften stool and when taken in excess will cause diarrhea, but what about food you can eat to firm your stool up? There is a section on taking electrolytes but that only helps with the dehydration diarrhea causes, not counter the effects of laxatives and such. I heard eating dried blueberries can help, but never tried it and can not find any resources to confirm it. Imodium and Kaopectate are medicines, what about natural stuff, foods etc. that will help? Billy Nair 03:14, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

See BRAT diet. --Una Smith (talk) 02:30, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Also in the article please mention why just eating some thickener won't work. Jidanni (talk) 16:30, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

They will be digested.--GrahamColm^Talk 16:54, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

• P.S. The diarrhea serves important purposes: it removes the pathogenic bacteria, viruses, parasites and toxins rapidly from the gut. Imodium has its role, (i.e. on a long haul flight!), but it is not a cure for diarrhea. To a microbiologist, the diarrhea itself is the cure.--GrahamColm^Talk 15:35, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Language

Someone please pick one term to use in this article to refer to the gastrointestinal tract: terms in use now include digestive tract, GI tract, gut, intestines, and this variety is confusing to anyone who does not know they mean the same thing. --Una Smith (talk) 02:27, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Diorite should redirect here.

Diorite should redirect to Diarrhea. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.162.58.225 (talk) 07:42, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Diorite is a type of rock, and already has its own article. Gh5046 (talk) 20:57, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Wording

Re this sentence: "Medicines that are available without a doctor's prescription include loperamide (Imodium) and bismuth subsalicylate Pepto Bismol and Kaopectate[7]"

The two "and"s seem odd. Should it say:

"Medicines that are available without a doctor's prescription include loperamide (Imodium), bismuth subsalicylate, Pepto Bismol and Kaopectate[7]"

Wanderer57 (talk) 06:00, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Good redirects

The biggest problem with Wikipedia is that its software is not intelligent to correct spelling mistakes and guess the right word when a keyword with wrong spellings is entered. Today I used "Direa" and was redirected to Diarrhea which I was actually looking for. I just want to appreciate this redirect and say that such redirects should be encouraged where real spellings are so hard to remember or to even guess. Thanks! DrAjitParkash (talk) 03:06, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Well, the way we usually get those is when people like you make spelling mistakes. So anytime you try a term in WP and later figure out it wasn't spelled correctly, consider putting in a spelling redirect. The worst thing that can happen is it will deleted. — trlkly 05:51, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Good redirects Ⅱ: Trots?!

I searched for 'trots' and 'the trots' and I kept landing on this page. I thought it was somebody's idea of a joke until I found out that Americans think 'the trots' means diarrhoea, not 'harness racing'. I guess I'm going to teach myself how to make a disambiguation page.

Anyhow, does anybody know if any culture other than the U.S. has this meaning for 'the trots'?

MikZ (talk) 22:58, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

The shits

"The shits" redirects to this page, but it does not appear anywhere in this page, so Google doesn't pick this up. I'm not a native speaker of English, and when I heard about "the shits" on Generation Kill it took me quite some time to figure out what they were talking about. 85.250.18.250 (talk) 21:17, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

The shits really did originate in the US military. It is military slang for diahorrea. The American people also picked up on this as retired and discharged soldiers, active duty and other soldiers conversed with other people. 205.240.146.148 (talk) 00:04, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Other terminology, also originated in the US military include "the GI shits" as well, more common in the US Army and the US Marines, somewhat common in the USAF and US Navy. Hope this also helps. 205.240.146.148 (talk) 00:08, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Severity

This page seems to emphasize causes which are relatively severe. I does not mention the more trivial causes of the occasional diarrhea, like eating something that "disagrees with you" (such as food spicier than one is accustomed to), allergies (even as a reaction to hay fever), overindulgence in alcohol, etc. Reading this article, one would think a bout of diarrhea means something must be serious wrong with you. --Ericjs (talk) 05:24, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

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