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If you have diarrhea are you absorbing all your calories?
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No not true always: No it is not true.When you have diaarhea you loose fluids and electrolytes and do not absorp food/calories.It all depends on cause and severity of diarrhea.In mild cases you may absorp food and in severe cases you do not.
Answered 6/25/2018
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