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Interpretation of Diagnostic Data

   

Added on  2019-11-08

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Running head: INTERPRETATION OF DIAGNOSTIC DATA1Interpretation of Diagnostic DataStudent’s NameDate of Submission
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INTERPRETATION OF DIAGNOSTIC DATA2What is diarrhea?Diarrhea is a common symptom which indicates there is a problem in the gastrointestinaltract. It can be classified as either acute or chronic diarrhea. Acute cases lasts for a few days andresolves spontaneously while chronic cases last for four or more weeks and requires medication.Both acute as well as chronic diarrhea is very dangerous because it can lead to dehydration inbothe adults and children. It also causes loss of electrolytes, a situation which causes threat tolives and even hospitalizations. Other symptoms include weight loss, bloat, abdominal cramps,fever and pain in the stomach among others (Markus, 2017). Common causes of diarrheaDiarrhea is a medical condition caused by bacteria, parasites, and viruses which lead tosymptoms such as the abnormal passing of loose or in other cases watery stool. In other cases,these causes may linger because the immunosuppressed people such as AIDS, cancer and thosewho have undergone organ transplants are prone to diarrhea. Since these causative agents arereleased in stool, other people get infected by getting in contact with contaminated surfaces. Themost common routes of infection are through eating foods or drinking contaminated water. Clinical laboratory testsBefore any diagnosis is made, it is important that a health care gives makes an assessmentin order to understand the nature of the presented diarrhea case. This involves the nature ofconsistency, frequency and quantity of diarrhea, which mostly depend son the metabolismnature. Further, some questions may be asked in order for proper decisions to be made.Chymotrypsin test is important in detecting the trypsin and chymotrypsin which are enzymespresent in stool when the pancreas is damaged. Fecal fat test is the presence of fat in feces as aresult of problems such as malabsorption of nutrients such as in celiac diseases. White blood2
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