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DIARRHOEA, DIGESTION AND DEHYDRATIONDiarrhoea is a condition in which the sufferer has frequent and watery, chunky, or loose bowel
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Derrick OKRAH DIARRHOEA, DIGESTION AND DEHYDRATION Diarrhoea is a condition in which the sufferer has frequent and watery, chunky, or loose bowel. Micro-organisms cause diarrhoea by the production of toxins which interfere with the normal mechanisms for the absorption of water. The result is a high concentration of unabsorbed substances in the lumen, which restrict the absorption of water from the gut into the blood because of the water potential gradient, is in a wrong direction. Diarrhoea is not normal because when it prevents the digestive system from absorbing the essential salts, nutrients and water from the food being eaten; instead they are lost from the body as runny or watery bowel motion. Dehydration occurs when these losses are not replaced adequately and a deficit of water and electrolytes develops. Treating Diarrhoea Although the toxins prevent the normal mechanisms uptake of essential salts they have very little effect on the co-transport proteins, therefore if these...
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