Question 47 (part 2) · LEK · Diarrhea
Which statement is true about bile acid diarrhoea?
- A. it does not respond to treatment with ion exchange resins such as cholestyramine.
- B. it is never accompanied by cholelithiasis as the excess of bile is excreted to the small intestine.
- C. it occurs only as a complication of small intestine resection.
- D. it never occurs in diabetes due to the gastrointestinal motility disorders present in this disease
- E. affected patients present with a sudden, watery diarrhoea or mild steatorrhoea.
Hint
Consider what unabsorbed bile acids do when they reach the colon and which clinical picture that produces.
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