summer diarrhea

diarrhea /di·ar·rhea/ (-re´ah) abnormally frequent evacuation of watery feces.diarrhe´aldiarrhe´ic

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choleraic diarrhea  a type seen in cholera, with serous feces and circulatory collapse.

familial chloride diarrhea  a type of severe watery diarrhea that begins in early infancy with feces containing excessive chloride because of impairment of chloride-bicarbonate exchange in the lower colon. Affected infants have a distended abdomen, lethargy, and retarded growth and mental development.

lienteric diarrhea  a form in which feces contain undigested food.

osmotic diarrhea  that due to the presence of osmotically active nonabsorbable solutes in the intestine, e.g., magnesium sulfate.

parenteral diarrhea  diarrhea due to infections outside the gastrointestinal tract.

secretory diarrhea  watery voluminous diarrhea resulting from increased stimulation of ion and water secretion, inhibition of their absorption, or both; osmolality of the feces approximates that of plasma.

summer diarrhea  acute diarrhea in children during the intense heat of summer.

toxigenic diarrhea  the watery voluminous diarrhea caused by enterotoxins from enterotoxigenic bacteria such as Vibrio cholerae and enterotoxigenic strains of Escherichia coli .

traveler's diarrhea  diarrhea in travelers, especially those visiting tropical or subtropical areas where sanitation is poor; many different agents can cause it, the most common being enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli.

tropical diarrhea  see under sprue.

weanling diarrhea  diarrhea in an infant when put on food other than its mother's milk, usually due to inadequate sanitation and infection by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli or rotaviruses.

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sum·mer diarrhea (smr)

n.

Diarrhea affecting infants or young children in hot weather, usually caused by acute gastroenteritis due to bacterial infection. Also called choleraic diarrhea.