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Tri Huynh, DO, PLLC. Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases
Clermont, FL
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About
Bio
Dr. Tri Huynh went to the University of
South Florida for his undergraduate studies and achieved a degree in
Mathematics. He subsequently went to the Philadelphia College of
Osteopathic Medicine and graduated in 2004 for his medical degree.
He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. His
fellowship training for gastroenterology was at Largo Medical Center,
affiliated with The VA Bay Pines Medical Health Systems. He spent
time in Vanderbilt University Medical Center for liver
transplantation.
For the past three years, Dr. Huynh
practiced gastroenterology and hepatology in Leesburg and The
Villages. He is well respected by his peers and colleagues. His
patients love him since he treats them with the utmost care and very
conscientious for each of their medical needs. He has special
interest in advanced procedures involving pancreaticobiliary
disorders/malignancies, Barrett's esophagus, and intestinal stent
placement. Furthermore, he is fully committed in screening and
prevention of colorectal cancer. In addition to numerous other
professional honors and distinctions, he has been elected a Fellow of
the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and American
College of Gastroenterology.
Dr. Tri Huynh's clinical expertise
includes gastrointestinal bleed, gastrointestinal cancer, esophageal
diseases, colorectal cancer screening, liver diseases (liver
cirrhosis and its complications, autoimmune liver disease, hereditary
liver diseases, viral hepatitis, and others), GERD, inflammatory
bowel diseases, pancreaticobiliary disorders/malignancies, and GI
dysfunctions. He is fellowship-trained in gastrointestinal
procedures, including diagnostic and therapeutic
esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD), colonoscopy, small bowel
enteroscopy, diagnostic and therapeutic ERCP, capsule endoscopy,
percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG), esophageal manometry,
esophageal pH testing, hemorrhoidal banding, and breath testing. In
addition, he has expertise in performing advanced therapeutic
procedures including radiofrequency ablation (RFA), complex stricture
dilations, and intestinal stent placement.
SpecialtiesDoctors may have more than one area of specialty interest. Board certification in a specialty area means the doctor has completed formal training and has practice experience in that specialty, and has passed the certification examination from the corresponding accredited medical specialty board.
Doctors may have more than one area of specialty interest. Board certification in a specialty area means the doctor has completed formal training and has practice experience in that specialty, and has passed the certification examination from the corresponding accredited medical specialty board.
Gastroenterology
Hepatology
Languages spoken
Vietnamese
Doctor Q&A
189 Answers
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A 35-year-old member asked:
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Gastroenterology 19 years experience
Diarrhea: Usually acute diarrhea is self-limited, which means that it would end after 2-3 days. You should hydrating yourself during this course. There are ... Read More
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Humira/Melatonin: There are quite a few interactions between the two agents, such as fatigue, nausea/vomiting, depression, headache, blurred vision. Suggest to discuss... Read More
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A 20-year-old male asked:
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Epigastric pain.: Your abdominal pain could be a number of reasons. This could be related to gallbladder dysfunction, peptic ulcers (gastric or duodenal), indigestion,... Read More
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A 29-year-old female asked:
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Blood glucose: With the parameters you provided, you are not diabetic. To define diabetes, fasting sugar should be > 126 (from 110-125 is known as glucose intole... Read More
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A 27-year-old female asked:
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C. Diff: If you are infected with c. Difficile, which can be treated with a simple course of Flagyl for 10 days. You do not need to recheck the status of c. D... Read More
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A 34-year-old male asked:
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LUQ pain: Your abdominal pain could be a number of reasons. Would need additional symptoms/descriptions to assist ruling out possible causes. Make sure you ar... Read More
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A 40-year-old male asked:
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Fatty liver: Fatty liver disease is becoming quite common. You need to avoid alcohol completely. One of the most common cause of this disease is related to meta... Read More
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A 24-year-old male asked:
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Abdominal pain: Your symptoms appear to be related to gallbladder. However, need to make sure you do not have acute appendicitis. Need to have further evaluation wi... Read More
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A 37-year-old female asked:
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Vermox: This medication is discontinued in the us. To treat pinworms, adult and children have the same dosage, which is 100mg x 1 and may repeat in 2 weeks t... Read More
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A 24-year-old female asked:
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Food/indigestion: Unlikely. Normally, food should be broken down to small particles through mastication and digestive enzymes. Food and gastric contents should be m... Read More
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A 51-year-old male asked:
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Inguinal hernia: Your inguinal hernia repair should not have any effect to your liver cirrhosis. If you have ascites, you are at increased risk for ascitic fluid inf... Read More
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A 32-year-old female asked:
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Sore throat,dysphagi: You might have severe acid reflux with your description of symptoms. Consider taking Omeprazole 20mg bid, otc. However, due to dysphagia (difficulty... Read More
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A 25-year-old male asked:
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Clindamycin: Clindamycin is one of the most common antibiotics caused clostridium difficile infection (c. Dif.). If you have diarrhea after started on this medic... Read More
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A 26-year-old female asked:
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Diarrhea: If you have excessive diarrhea, make sure you are well hydrated. Usually, diarrhea is a manifestation of acute gastroenteritis, which would take abou... Read More
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A 43-year-old female asked:
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Blood in stool.: Immunochemical stool test is not 100% specific. It can have false positive. However, if your test is positive, the next thing to do is colonoscopy t... Read More
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A 77-year-old female asked:
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Chromogranin A: This test is used to determine whether or not you have carcinoid tumor, pheochromocytoma, or neuroendocrine tumor.
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A 31-year-old female asked:
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RUQ pain: If you have right upper quadrant abdominal pain periodically for the past 2 years, you need to have further work up. I would probably get an abdomina... Read More
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A 47-year-old female asked:
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Abnormal ALT: If you have fluctuation of liver associated enzymes, you need to have further work up to determine the cause. There are many causes for this fluctuat... Read More
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Vancomycin/Questran: You should start to see diarrhea slowing down after 2-3 days starting on the above medications. However, you do need to complete the recommended anti... Read More
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A 23-year-old male asked:
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H. Pylori: No definite conclusion of how you contract h. Pylori, but most likely due to oral transmission. There is no restriction or guidelines regarding route... Read More
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A 66-year-old male asked:
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Constipation: If you have not had a colonoscopy, i suggest you to get one. Make sure to have high fiber diet, adequate hydration. Take fiber supplement, otc, citr... Read More
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A 35-year-old female asked:
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Bloating: Most of the time, excessive bloating is related to food intake. You would expect to be more bloated with high fiber diet (veggies, large amout of fru... Read More
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A 21-year-old female asked:
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Chagas' disease: If you have chagas' disease, u need to be treated because t. Cruzi can cause many problems such as cardiomyopathy (heart failure), difficulty swallowi... Read More
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A 25-year-old female asked:
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Celiac Disease: Having celiac disease is a chronic condition. The patients need to be on a gluten free diet and should be compliant to this to avoid the complication... Read More
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A 60-year-old male asked:
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Creon: There are a few other agents beside Creon to help you with possible chronic pancreatic insufficiency. They are zenpep, pancreaze, prancrelipase, pert... Read More
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A 21-year-old male asked:
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Elevated AFP: Given your father's history of chronic hbv infection and now with the marked elevation of afp, this is almost conclusive of possible hepatocellular ca... Read More
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A 51-year-old male asked:
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Yellow eyes: If you have yellow eyes, which means you could have jaundice. This could be secondary to different causes and you need to have further work up, labs... Read More
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A 24-year-old male asked:
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Nausea/vomiting: If you have nausea and vomiting after food intake, it could be a number of reasons. This could relate to peptic ulcer disease (causing food not able ... Read More
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A 28-year-old female asked:
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Hemorrhoid: Given his age and the symptom, this is likely related to hemorrhoid. Suggest to eat more fiber, use citrucel with one tablespoon in 8 oz of water dai... Read More
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A 17-year-old female asked:
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Excessive gas: Excessive flatus is likely related to the type of food you consumed. Try to avoid dairy products, high carbohydrate, artificial sugar. Consume larg... Read More
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A 36-year-old female asked:
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SIBO: Sibo is small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. Some patient developed overgrow of bacteria that can cause abdominal bloating, excessive gas, diarrhea... Read More
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A 45-year-old female asked:
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Prednisone: Yes it is one of the common side effects of prednisone.
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A 55-year-old male asked:
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Canasa/Anusol: To treat internal hemorrhoid, i would recommend Anusol Hc 2.5% cream instead of canasa. Canasa enema is used to treat inflammation on the left side o... Read More
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A 31-year-old male asked:
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Typhoid fever: This is an infection caused most commonly by salmonella typhi. Present with fever, delirium, splenic enlargement, abdominal pain, and bacteremia (bac... Read More
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A 24-year-old female asked:
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Blood glucose: Your numbers are normal. You do not have diabetes.
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A 24-year-old female asked:
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Herd: If you have gerd, you need to have some lifestyle modification that is losing weight, eat smaller meal portions, avoid eating and drinking within 3 ho... Read More
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A 44-year-old female asked:
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Possible Crohn's dis: Pathology from the inflammed terminal ileum should give diagnoses of possible crohn's disease. Hence, need to verify with pathologist. If pathology ... Read More
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A 33-year-old male asked:
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H. Pylori: H. Pylori is a bacteria that is quite common. It can cause duodenal/gastric ulcers. Most patients have no symptoms. Without treatment, it can cause... Read More
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A 36-year-old male asked:
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Fatty Liver: Fatty liver disease can be caused by different causes. Most common nowaday is known as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (nalfd), which is quite comm... Read More
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A 24-year-old female asked:
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Lemonade: If you have acid reflux, you should avoid heavy use of lemonade since it has lots of sugar and citrus, which are known to exacerbate acid reflux.
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A 37-year-old female asked:
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Hemochromatosis: I'm not sure how you got the diagnosis of hemochromatosis without testing. Physicians would suspect the patient of having hemochromatosis based on la... Read More
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A 23-year-old female asked:
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Chronic diarrhea: Having chronic diarrhea for 8 months could be due to a number of reasons. In order to work up for the cause, will need more detailed information. Wh... Read More
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A 38-year-old male asked:
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Gastric polyps/Omep.: One of the common side effects of long term use of Prilosec (or proton pump inhibitors) is gastric polyp formation. These are benign polyps. However... Read More
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A 39-year-old female asked:
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And pain: If you have those symptoms, you're likely have gb dysfunction. Hida scan can assist to answer the problem.
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A 60-year-old male asked:
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Constipation.: You have chronic constipation due to several reasons. Make sure you are not overdose on narcotics or any medications that has side effects of constip... Read More
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A 20-year-old male asked:
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GERD: Yes, this is likely gerd (acid reflux). You don't necessary sense the acidic flavor. Most of the time, the contents of your previous meal come back ... Read More
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A 17-year-old female asked:
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C diff: If you are diagnosed with c diff infection, you should be treated with antibiotics for 10 days even if your diarrhea is resolved. However, if u are ... Read More
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A 35-year-old female asked:
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Constipation: Not sure what laxative you used. Normally, i would recommend the patient to have adequate hydration, stay active with exercising, eat high fiber diet... Read More
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A 50-year-old female asked:
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Postprandial pain: If you have abdominal pain after meals, this could be a number of things. However, the most common cause is gallbladder dysfunction. Suggest to hav... Read More
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A 41-year-old female asked:
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Abdominal pain: Having abdominal pain could be secondary to many different causes. Based on what you described might not be adequate to answer your question. Locati... Read More
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Dr. Huynh is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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Mar 31, 2015
Dr. Huynh is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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Thanks for your quick reply! Is what the thought is, thanks. Have you heard of a low dose of arithramiasin for 90 days to help with movement of bowels?
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Thank you, your answer was very helpful! Can u tell me alternates to citrucel since it s not available in india
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Thank you, your answer was very helpful! Thx u very much I saw results through healthtrak last pm & had to ask.
Education & Training
Medical/Graduate school
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Graduated 2004MD
Residency
Sun Coast Hospital
Residency
Sun Coast Hospital
Awards
LRMC Physician of The Month
Top Gastroenterologist , Second Place, National - Summer
2013
Affiliations
The Village Regional Hospital
Leesburg Regional Medical Center
South lake hospital
Publications
"Understanding Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease"
"Patient Outcomes after Placement of PEG at VA Bay Pines Healthcare System"
"Scabies and Pediculosis"
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