What Causes Diarrhea?
6. Medications.
While medications are intended to help us, many of them do come with some unwelcome side-effects. One of these is that they can cause us to develop diarrhea. Some types of medication will irritate the lining of our stomach; potentially causing our food to be forced through faster.
Medication can also cause diarrhea in another way, particularly where antibiotics are concerned. Our digestive system is home to a variety of pathogens and other organisms, and antibiotics can kill these bacteria. This can, in turn, cause an imbalance in the microbes living in our digestive system, and this might result in diarrhea. Surgery will also sometimes be a cause of diarrhea.
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