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What do you suggest if i am 17. what do you suggest if i am pretty healthy, so i don't know why i have diarrhea?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

If acute - it might: be a viral gastroenteritis. We all get sick once in a while. Germs happen.

Dr Munshower and 8 doctors agreed

Answered 6/27/2015

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