Diabetic Diarrhea Research Articles

Control of diabetic diarrhea with antibiotic therapy.

The ability of oral antibiotic treatment to control diabetic diarrhea was documented by a double-blind study involving a patient with this condition. When the patient was given Mysteclin-F, the diarrhea subsided promptly, only to recur when a placebo was substituted,. The erratic behavior of diabetic diarrhea is indicated, however, by the fact that a remission eventually occurred, and no further treatment was required. Although not all patients with diabetic diarrhea respond to antibiotic treatment, its trial merits consideration forthose patients who are refractory to the simpler forms of treatment.

Small Intestinal Motility

The major advances in knowledge of small intestinal muscle function made during the last decade are reviewed in the context of how they related to the major roles of mixing and movement caudad. The attempt is made to draw attention to the disturbances in smooth muscle function of the small intestine in certain clinical states. Discusion focuses on the following: 1) terminology; 2) anatomy; 3) muscular contraction; 4) control of contraction of small intestinal musculature (neural influences electrical activity pharmacological and chemical mediators); 5 ) physiological results of smooth muscle contraction; and 6) disturbances in small intestinal motility in clinical syndromes (dumping syndrome postoperative ileus sprue diabetic diarrhea thyroid disease and scleroderma). Chronic diarrhea in the diabetic patient is usually found in association with peripheral or autonomic nueropathy. Along with delayed gastric emptying and marked gastric dilation the transit time through the small intestine is generally prolonged. Non specific changes such as small bowel dilation segmentation and alteration in mucosal folds have been recorded. It is possible that the diarrhea and steatorrhea are related to alterations in small bowel motility.

Evaluation of 200 D(plus)-xylose blood level time curves as an index of intestinal absorption.

Two hundred consecutived (+) -xylose blood level time curves performed on 180 individuals using a previously described method were evaluated. It was found that the test is useful to indicate malabsorption states in idiopathic nontropical sprue, scleroderma, Whipple's disease, and diabetic diarrhea with steatorrhea, as well as in mesenteric lymphatic obstruction. It also shows low values in cases of multiple diverticula of the small intestine and cholecystoduodenostomy. It does not consistently demonstrate the malabsorption caused by regional enteritis, resection of the distal small intestine, and pancreatic enzyme deficiency. Complete pyloric obstruction interferes with the test.

Peroral Jejunal Biopsy in a Patient with Diabetic Diarrhea: A Case Report

Peroral Jejunal Biopsy in a Patient with Diabetic Diarrhea: A Case Report

Diabetic Diarrhea with Malabsorption Syndrome

Diabetic Diarrhea with Malabsorption Syndrome

Diabetic diarrhea with malabsorption syndrome.

Diabetic diarrhea with malabsorption syndrome.

Asymptomatic gastric retention in diabetics (gastroparesis diabeticorum).

Excerpt The incidental discovery of unsuspected and asymptomatic gastric retention in moderately severe diabetics led to a study of this condition. References to gastric retention in diabetes are v...

The intestinal tract in diabetic diarrhea; a pathologic study.

The intestinal tract in diabetic diarrhea; a pathologic study.