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== Medical Therapy== | == Medical Therapy== | ||
Treatment is directed largely towards management of underlying cause. | Treatment is directed largely towards management of underlying cause. | ||
*Replacement of nutrients, electrolytes and fluid may be necessary. In severe defeciency hospital admission may be required for parentral administration, often advice from dietician is sought. People whose absorptive surface are severely limited from disease or surgery may need long term [[total parenteral nutrition]]. Pancreatic [[enzymes]] are | *Replacement of nutrients, electrolytes and fluid may be necessary. In severe defeciency hospital admission may be required for parentral administration, often advice from dietician is sought. People whose absorptive surface are severely limited from disease or surgery may need long term [[total parenteral nutrition]]. Pancreatic [[enzymes]] are supplemented orally in insufficiencies. | ||
*Dietary modification is important in some conditions. Life long avoidance of particular food or food | *Dietary modification is important in some conditions. Life long avoidance of particular food or food constituents may be needed in celiac disease or lactose intolerence. | ||
*Bacterial overgrowth usually | *Bacterial overgrowth usually responds well to courses of antibiotics. Use of [[cholestyramine]] to bind bile acid will help reducing [[diarrhea]] in bile acid malabsorption. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 14:00, 1 April 2013
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Medical Therapy
Treatment is directed largely towards management of underlying cause.
- Replacement of nutrients, electrolytes and fluid may be necessary. In severe defeciency hospital admission may be required for parentral administration, often advice from dietician is sought. People whose absorptive surface are severely limited from disease or surgery may need long term total parenteral nutrition. Pancreatic enzymes are supplemented orally in insufficiencies.
- Dietary modification is important in some conditions. Life long avoidance of particular food or food constituents may be needed in celiac disease or lactose intolerence.
- Bacterial overgrowth usually responds well to courses of antibiotics. Use of cholestyramine to bind bile acid will help reducing diarrhea in bile acid malabsorption.