Diarrhea is a symptom rather than a disease ... Senior associate in medicine, Children's Hospital Medical Center; associate clinical professor of pediatrics, Harvard Medical School.

But once it progresses to a chronic form, it can leave children severely ill and underdeveloped, making treatment much harder. Until now, the cause of chronic diarrhea has remained unclear.

CREDES is a center for diagnosis and treatment of children with secondary malnutrition. Between January 1990 and June 1991, 21 infants (9.3% of all admissions) suffered from persistent diarrhea ...

Abdominal pain, bloat, chronic or intermitant diarrhea ... after the end of treatment, direct and formol- ether fecal examination was performed on 3 consecutive days for each child.