What is your approach to symptom management in patients with infectious diarrhea?
Do you consider fiber supplementation for stool bulking? Do you consider it permissible to give loperamide at any point in the acute illness course?
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General Internal Medicine · UCSF
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When it comes to infectious diarrhea, I would consider a short course of loperamide for symptomatic relief, provided that my suspicion for C. diff colitis and/or dysentery is low. Antimotility agents in the setting of toxin-producing infectious diarrhea can increase the risk of toxic megacolon (in C...
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