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What is your approach to symptom management in patients with infectious diarrhea?

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General Internal Medicine · UCSF

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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