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Does chronic appendicitis cause loose stools or diarreah or it docent mess with your stools ?
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Chronic appendicitis: does not exist. You either have appendicitis in which case you need treatment with surgery or more recent studies suggest antibiotics alone may be all that is necessary or your symptoms are due to something else.
Answered 6/12/2014
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