Factitious Diarrhea

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factitious diarrhea,

diarrhea caused by something the patient is doing to his or her own body, usually surreptitious laxative abuse.

Factitious Diarrhoea

The spurious increase in stool production due to either excess use of laxatives, or dilution of the ‘product’

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