{"id":59973,"date":"2013-09-16T16:19:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T14:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darmklachten.nl\/diarrhoea-and-bacterial-infections\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T17:59:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T15:59:49","slug":"diarrhoea-and-bacterial-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darmklachten.nl\/en\/diarrhoea-and-bacterial-infections\/","title":{"rendered":"Diarrhoea and bacterial infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\" id=\"wpb-content-root\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<strong>Every year, millions of people worldwide experience a period of diarrhoea. Although acute diarrhoea is often caused by gastroenteritis, a viral infection, there are many other reasons why diarrhoea may develop.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In food poisoning, a bacterium is the culprit and the source is often chicken. With a bacterial infection and after eating contaminated food, symptoms develop within eight hours. They are often very severe: malaise, vomiting, headache, diarrhoea. The symptoms usually resolve on their own after a few days, but they should not be taken too lightly.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Escherichia coli<\/li>\n<li>Salmonella spp.<\/li>\n<li>Shigella spp.<\/li>\n<li>Yersinia enterocolitica<\/li>\n<li>Campylobacter jejuni<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The infections listed above can be contracted through direct contact with stool or contaminated food. Among children, Campylobacter was found in 6%, while E. coli and Yersinia enterocolitica were present in 2% and Salmonella spp. in 1%.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n<h2>Chronic abdominal complaints after an infection<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n<ul>\n<li>The inflammation can become chronic because the bacteria do not disappear on their own. Proper stool testing can detect the presence of these bacteria.<\/li>\n<li>Even after the bacteria have disappeared, infections can cause a post-infectious syndrome that manifests as abdominal cramps, flatulence, a bloated abdomen or diarrhoea, complaints that may persist for years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n<h2>Chronic diarrhoea<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]In addition to a bacterial origin, chronic diarrhoea can have many causes: food allergies, excessively high histamine levels, parasites, ulcerative colitis, coeliac disease, bowel cancer and medication use.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n<h2>Intestinal parasites<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]In many cases, chronic diarrhoea with a fluctuating pattern is caused by infection with intestinal parasites. With a parasitic infection, it can take several days before diarrhoea develops<\/p>\n<p>a. Infection with Giardia lamblia and Cryptosporidium spp. can cause severe diarrhoea.<br \/>\nb. With Dientamoeba fragilis infection, the diarrhoea is less severe; mushy stools, flatulence, a bloated abdomen and increased urgency can persist for years.<br \/>\nc. After a visit to the tropics, tropical parasitic infections such as Strongyloides infection can develop. Malaria can also cause abdominal complaints.<br \/>\nd. Infections with worms such as tapeworms are uncommon.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n<h2>Autoimmune diseases<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Crohn&#8217;s disease and ulcerative colitis can be accompanied by prolonged severe diarrhoea, with watery stools as often as ten times a day or even more.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n<h2>Gluten intolerance<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Diarrhoea occurs when eating grains containing gluten if a person has gluten intolerance, coeliac disease. Diarrhoea, a distended abdomen and abdominal pain occur especially in children, because they develop more damage to the intestinal villi than adults.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n<h2>Antibiotics<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Diarrhoea often occurs during or after a course of antibiotics. A culture of the gut flora can show whether the numbers of bacteria in the intestine have decreased or whether there is an increase in yeasts such as candida albicans.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n<h2>Milk sugar<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]An intolerance to milk sugar causes flatulence, a bloated abdomen and diarrhoea. In the Netherlands, 15% of people cannot break down milk sugar. They develop diarrhoea when they drink a glass of milk, but also from hidden lactose added to foods and medicines.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n<h2>Histamine<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]High histamine levels in the intestine cause diarrhoea. An increase in histamine is caused by a deficiency of the enzyme (DAO) that breaks down histamine in the intestine.<br \/>\nHigh histamine levels occur especially after eating mature cheese or chocolate and drinking red wine.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n<h2>Additives<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Food additives such as aspartame, sorbitol and fructose can cause diarrhoea and a bloated abdomen.<br \/>\nAntidepressants and medicines for high blood pressure can cause diarrhoea.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Every year, millions of people worldwide experience a period of diarrhoea. Although acute diarrhoea is often caused by gastroenteritis, a viral infection, there are many other reasons why diarrhoea may develop. 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