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What are some things that frequent diarrhea is caused by?
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Many things: Inflammatory bowel disease ie.Crohns disease and ulcerative colitis, iritable bowel syndrome, malabsorption such as with lactose intolerance, infections both viral such as norovirus and bacterial such as salmonella, shigella, campylobacter and clostridium difficile, many drugs and laxatives.
Answered 10/19/2012
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