How can a person have gastroparesis AND diarrhea?
I thought a person with gastroparesis has problems emptying their intestines because the food moves too slowly. If that’s the case, then why can a person have diarrhea with gastroparesis? Wouldn’t that mean the food is moving quickly through the body, not slowly? Can somebody PLEASE explain it to me, because I just don’t understand.
Gastroparesis means that there is a delay emptying food from the STOMACH into the intestines. (Gastro = stomach, paresis = paralysis) Once it makes it to the intestines, it can travel fast.
The two are unrelated.
As waste move through the intestines, water is extracted and reabsorbed. If the intestinal muscles cannot contract fully, than they cannot extract all of the water out of the waste. This can cause diarrhea due to excessive water in the stool. Not all diarrhea is due to excessive motility.
Sounds like a broken bung.
Because diarrhea is caused by bacteria in your intestines. It doesn’t matter about your intestines directly, its more about the bacteria in your intestines.
It’s a long way from the stomach to the sigmoid and rectum. Also, it isn’t at all uncommon for people with fecal impactions to have diarrhea around the edges of a huge mass of constipated stool. People just ain’t put together simply.
im 14 and my mom has suffered from gastroparesis for 7- 9 yrs. she has a feeding tube and a pacemaker. feeding tube getting replaced tomorrow due to it falling out and tract closing. i have one of the rubber bracelets to support the sufferers of gastroparesis, go to this website please. its
http://g-pact.org/ good luck. =D