Diarrhoea

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    • Diarrhoea: when not enough water is absorbed from the faeces
    • Oral Rehydration Therapy is a treatment for diarrhoea

    • The cholera bacterium produces a toxin that causes secretion of chloride ions into the small intestine, causing osmotic movement of water into the gut, causing diarrhoea, dehydration and loss of salts from the blood
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