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#267 Diarrhea Disemboweled Part 2: Chronic Diarrhea with Dr. Iris Wang

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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How to Tell if There Is a Gap in Chronic Diarrhea

Stool osmotest is really just stool electrolytes, right? We very rarely actually send stool osmolality. It's just not an accurate test because in order for it to be accurate, you have to literally take that stool and get it to the lab ASAP before any of the stool bacteria have any chance of fermenting anything. And then lastly, you get to this IBS or functional diarrhea where all of the testing you are able to do is normal, but they meet this room for criteria for functional disorder or call it disorders at the gut brain axis. Now we know if you would change that one, but if you knew it now we wouldn't need those tests

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