Possible causes of Diarrhea
28 conditions can cause this symptom. Most common are listed first.
- Bacterial dysentery (bloody diarrhea) Common Urgent Pediatric
- Celiac disease (gluten intestinal disease) Common Pediatric
- Clostridium difficile (C diff) Common Pediatric
- Crohn's disease (regional enteritis, Crohn's colitis, intestinal inflammation) Common Urgent
- E coli (Escherichia coli) infection Common Urgent Pediatric
- Food poisoning Common Pediatric
- Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) Common Pediatric
- Lactose intolerance Common Pediatric
- Malabsorption syndrome Common Pediatric
- Rotavirus infection (intestinal viral infection) Common Pediatric
- Ulcerative colitis (large intestine inflammation) Common
- Cytomegalovirus infection (CMV viral infection)
- Listeria (listeriosis)
- Salmonella infection (intestinal blood infection) Urgent Pediatric
- Typhoid fever (salmonella typhi infection) Urgent
- Bowel obstruction (intestinal blockage) Urgent
- Colon cancer (large intestine tumor) Urgent
- Colonic diverticulitis (large intestine inflammation of diverticula) Urgent
- Gastroenteritis (inflammation of the stomach and intestinal lining)
- Gastrointestinal bleeding (intestinal bleeding) Urgent
- Giardiasis (giardia infection)
- HIV AIDS (Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) Urgent
- Medication reaction Urgent
- Norwalk virus
- Pancreatitis, chronic (pancreas inflammation) Urgent
- Rectal cancer (tumor) Urgent
- Shigellosis (Shigella infection) Urgent
- Viral infections