What Causes Diarrhea After Eating? Is Cancer Possible?
The causes of diarrhea after eating are multiple, and one of them is cancer. Read more…
Sudden Nausea Before a Bowel Movement: Causes & Solutions
You aren’t supposed to have nausea before a bowel movement. This is not normal. Though the fecal contents may be causing mechanical pressure resulting in the biting pain of “having to go really bad,” there Read more...
IBS Waking You Up At Night: Causes and Solutions
A GI doctor has some very surprising news for sufferers of IBS who keep getting wakened overnight by cramps and diarrhea. If you’ve been diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome, you already know what this does Read more...
Poop Coming Out when Passing Gas: Causes & Solutions
Do you sometimes have a leak of poop spurt out when you fart? If gooey poop leaks out only very occasionally when you pass gas, this is nothing to worry about and is probably one Read more...
Here’s Why You Poop Right After Meals
Why does it seem that almost every time you have a particular meal such as dinner or lunch, you have to poop immediately after? Is there really a cause and effect relationship between when you Read more...
Diarrhea After Abdominal CT Scan Cause, Solution
Do not put off having a CT scan if your doctor wants this done just because you fear getting diarrhea. The diarrhea after a CT scan happens to many people, a well-documented side effect of Read more...
Bits of Foam in Diarrhea Explained by Doctor
What are the “bits of foam” that someone might see in their diarrhea? And can this ever be a sign of a disease? These are questions I asked of gastroenterologist Sander R. Binderow, MD, FACS, Read more...
Microscopic Colitis Joint Aches Preceding Diarrhea for How Long?
Freepik.com/ Racool_studio Did you know that the joint aches of microscopic colitis can occur many days before the first day of a new flareup of diarrhea? A small percentage of people with microscopic Read more...
Lag Time Between Joint Pain & Diarrhea in Microscopic Colitis
Why can there be a time lapse between joint-pain onset of microscopic colitis and the onset of diarrhea? It’s possible for a flare-up of microscopic colitis to consist of, initially, some joint aches (some patients Read more...
Will Exercise Increase the Diarrhea from Microscopic Colitis??
Shutterstock/ Oscar Carrascosa Martinez Here’s what a gastroenterologist has to say about diarrhea, microscopic colitis and exercise. Microscopic colitis is a benign though sometimes disruptive inflammatory bowel disease whose claim to fame is Read more...
Can Intermittent Fasting Reduce Diarrhea from Microscopic Colitis??
Find out what a G.I. doctor has to say about intermittent fasting and microscopic colitis. Can intermittent fasting help relieve the symptom of diarrhea in microscopic colitis? “At present, we do not know enough about Read more...
Diarrhea, Stomach Pain: Crohn’s Disease—PillCam Can Diagnose
Freepik.com/ jcomp Suffer from stomach pain & diarrhea? This could be Crohn’s disease, which can be diagnosed by swallowing a pill that has a camera. Crohn’s disease often presents with two key symptoms: Read more...
Can Diarrhea Be the Only Symptom of Colon Cancer?
Is it possible for diarrhea to be the only symptom of colon cancer? You may be familiar with colon cancer's classic signs such as abdominal pain, weakness, weight loss, blood in stools and ribbon-like stools Read more...
IBS vs. Microscopic Colitis: Similarities, Diagnosis
IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) and microscopic colitis produce symptoms that are similar enough to result in misdiagnosis. So do you have IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) or microscopic colitis? After all, the symptoms overlap. Furthermore, symptoms Read more...
Orange Diarrhea: Some Causes Are Serious
Have you had orange diarrhea lately? That must have been a surprising sight, maybe even an alarming sight, since loose stools are supposed to be brown (though a little greenish is okay), not orange. Diarrhea can Read more...