Chronic or Acute

Chronic or Acute
Transcript

Chronic diarrhea is a patient that has had diarrhea symptoms that have lasted more than six weeks. Then they fall into a category of chronic diarrhea. If it's less than six weeks, then we diagnose it as acute diarrhea.

Pedram Enayati, MD

Gastroenterologist

- Co-Director of Gastroenterology Associates of Beverly Hills
- Has done extensive research on GI disorders, liver diseases, as well as liver/kidney transplantation
- Author of numerous journal articles and abstracts, and has presented on a variety of topics both nationally and internationally