title: [The child with chronic diarrhoea: suggestions for workup].
abstract: Causes of chronic diarrhoea (CD) are numerous. At the first consultation it is possible by simple means to evaluate the child for common causes and screen for the more severe ones: infection, food allergy, disaccharide malabsorption, general malabsorption (celiac disease and cystic fibrosis), inflammatory bowel disease, and functional disorders (toddler's diarrhoea and irritable colon syndrome). Second line evaluation should take place in the paediatric ward, aiming to confirm suspected, complicated disorders and to explore the possibility of the large number of rare causes of CD in the seriously sick child.
authors.affiliation: Børneafdelingen 460, Hvidovre Hospital, Kettegård Allé 30, 2650 Hvidovre, Denmark. anders.paerregaard@hvh.regionh.dk
authors.forename: Anders
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pærregård
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000382:microbiology; D003968:Diarrhea, Infantile / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D015212:Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D008286:Malabsorption Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis