How Can Healthy Food Cause Diarrhea in a Healthy Person?

Foods that are not problematic as such, may still cause diarrhea (lose bowel movements) even if you don’t have any bowel disease. Why?

1. Overeating

Continuing eating when you already know that you have enough may result in lose bowel movement(s) some hours later. This is especially true in children because their short bowels cannot digest large amounts of food at once. An excessive amount of any food, especially sugary and fatty foods (cakes, ice-cream, etc.) and fibre-rich foods (fruits, vegetables, vegetable broths or cereals) may be the cause.

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Toddler’s Diarrhea

Diarrhea refers to increased frequency and water content of stools.

Small children between 6 months and 3 years of age (toddlers) who drink a lot of fruit juices (especially apple juice) may have an ‘unexplained’ chronic diarrhea (lasting more than 2 weeks). Fruit sugar fructose from fruit juices, delivered into the small intestine of a small child in excessive amount, drags water from the intestinal wall into intestinal hollow, thus causing the so-called toddler’s diarrhea.

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