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Chronic diarrhoea
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This 32 year old female school teacher was referred because of longstanding diarrhoea and abdominal pain with recent exacerbation. She had a normal bowel habit, opening her bowels once a day until the age of 26 when she suffered acute bacterial gastroenteritis while on a backpacking holiday in one of the US National Parks. Her main complaint was of colicky lower …