Recent Posts Tagged With 'diarrhea'

• Traveler’s Diarrhea

  Posted on Sunday September 6th, 2009 at 11:45 in health and wellness, nausea, diarrhea, bloating, malaise, urgency, traveler's diarrhea

  A type of diarrhea that results from eating or drinking water contaminated with feces while traveling in other countries. Up to half of all Americans who visit the tropics pick up traveler’s diarrhea (or “Montezuma’s revenge”) or, in Spanish-...

• Rotavirus

  Posted on Thursday May 14th, 2009 at 17:07 in health and wellness, diarrhea, rotavirus, family of viruses

  The common name for a family of viruses that share several features. The group A rotaviruses are the most common cause of severe diarrhea in children, striking 130 million people a year. It causes a diarrhea so severe that 870,000 children die from t...

• Lactose Intolerance

  Posted on Monday April 6th, 2009 at 00:28 in health and wellness, lactose, diarrhea, bloating, cramps, lactose intolerance, lactase, inability to digest milk sugar, lack of the digestive enzyme lactase, nausesa

  The inability to digest milk sugar (lactose) because of a lack of the digestive enzyme lactase normally produced in the cells lining the small intestine. Lactase breaks down milk sugar into simpler forms that can then be absorbed into the bloodstream...