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Clinical features

Authoring team

The history of this condition is of

  • frequent, poorly formed brown and slightly offensive stools
  • food material easily recognisable in the stools is a hallmark feature

Despite persisting diarrhoea the child is constitutionally well, normally active and has unimpaired growth. The child has a normal appetite and a normal or increased fluid intake.

There are no positive findings on examination.

Laboratory investigations are usually negative.


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