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Can having diarrhea effect your body from absorbing daily medication?
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Not usually: only in extreme episodes of diarrhea would absorption of medications be affected. Usually, the medications are still in your system long enough to be dissolved and absorbed, even with diarrhea. Good luck.
Answered 6/2/2016
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