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  2. Gastroenteritis - Wikipedia

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    Gastroenteritis, also known as infectious diarrhea, is an inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract including the stomach and intestine. [8] Symptoms may include diarrhea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. [1] Fever, lack of energy, and dehydration may also occur. [2] [3] This typically lasts less than two weeks. [8]

  3. Gastroenterocolitis - Wikipedia

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    The most important factor when treating gastroenteritis is the replacement of fluids and electrolytes that are lost because of the diarrhea and vomiting. [ citation needed ] Antibiotics will not be effective if the cause of gastroenteritis is a viral infection.

  4. GSE has key symptoms typically restricted to the bowel and associated tissues; however, there are a wide variety of associated conditions. These include bowel disorders (diarrhoea, constipation, irritable bowel), eosinophilic gastroenteritis and increase with coeliac disease (CD) severity.

  5. Gastrointestinal disease - Wikipedia

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    Inflammation of the stomach by infection from any cause is called gastritis, and when including other parts of the gastrointestinal tract called gastroenteritis. When gastritis persists in a chronic state, it is associated with several diseases, including atrophic gastritis, pyloric stenosis, and gastric cancer.

  6. Intestinal infectious diseases - Wikipedia

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    Intestinal infectious diseases include a large number of infections of the bowels, including cholera, typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever, other types of salmonella infections, shigellosis, botulism, gastroenteritis, and amoebiasis among others. [1] Typhoid and paratyphoid resulted in 221,000 deaths in 2013 down from 259,000 deaths in 1990. [2]

  7. Enteritis - Wikipedia

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    Related diseases of the gastrointestinal system (including gastritis, gastroenteritis, colitis, and enterocolitis) involve inflammation of the stomach and large intestine. Duodenitis , jejunitis, and ileitis are subtypes of enteritis which are localised to a specific part of the small intestine.

  8. Diarrhea - Wikipedia

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    Infectious diarrhea is frequently referred to as gastroenteritis. [30] Norovirus is the most common cause of viral diarrhea in adults, [ 31 ] but rotavirus is the most common cause in children under five years old. [ 32 ]

  9. Gastrointestinal tract - Wikipedia

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    Gastroenteritis is the most common disease of the GI tract. Gastrointestinal cancer may occur at any point in the gastrointestinal tract, and includes mouth cancer, tongue cancer, oesophageal cancer, stomach cancer, and colorectal cancer. Inflammatory conditions. Ileitis is an inflammation of the ileum, colitis is an inflammation of the large ...