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Can having diarrhea for 3 to 4 days be damaging to your rectum, intestine and body? what's the worse that can happen and could it possibly be fatal?
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No: Diarrhea for a few days should not be deleterious unless it is severe enough to make you lose large volume of fluids like a liter or more daily. unless you are able to drink enough to make for the losses, you will develop dehydration. Other problems that develop from severe diarrhea is potassium and magnesium losses which only happens with severe or long term diarrhea.
Answered 5/11/2015
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