[Research progress in causes of persistent or chronic diarrhea in children].
The disease course of children with persistent or chronic diarrhea lasts from two weeks to two months or over. Diarrhea is a clinical syndrome caused by a group of multiple etiologies. This paper reviews common causes of persistent or chronic diarrhea in children, including intestinal infections, nonspecific inflammatory bowel diseases, food allergy, lactose intolerance, antibiotic-associated diarrhea, neural regulation abnormality, immunodeficiency disease, malnutrition, Celiac disease and zinc deficiency.
Department of Digestion, Hunan Children's Hospital, Changsha 410007, China. marge_z@sina.com.
Hong-Mei
HM
Zhao
Jing
J
Zhang
Jie-Yu
JY
You
D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007239:Infections / Q000150:complications; D015212:Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / Q000150:complications; D007787:Lactose Intolerance / Q000150:complications; D044342:Malnutrition / Q000150:complications; D015032:Zinc / Q000172:deficiency
D015032:Zinc