Belle, WV
A 31-year-old female asked:
My daughter(11yr) has been taking liquid zantac (ranitidine) for 2 weeks for gerd. she now has diarrhea and rotten egg smelling burps. what could be causing this?
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Dr. Yash Khannaanswered
Family Medicine 59 years experience
Needs to be checked: Rotten egg smelling burps and diarrhea needs to be checked by your primary care doctor or a GI specialist.It may be due to
1 gastric emptying problem(motility problem)
2giardia lambia infection
3small intestine bacterial overgrowth
4 from sulphur containing foods
5hpylori infection.
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Last updated Apr 4, 2021
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