Enteritis
Intestinal inflammatory disease / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Enteritis is inflammation of the small intestine. It is most commonly caused by food or drink contaminated with pathogenic microbes,[1] such as Serratia, but may have other causes such as NSAIDs, radiation therapy as well as autoimmune conditions like coeliac disease. Symptoms include abdominal pain, cramping, diarrhoea, dehydration, and fever.[1] Related diseases of the gastrointestinal system (including gastritis, gastroenteritis, colitis, and enterocolitis) involve inflammation of the stomach and large intestine.
Enteritis | |
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Tissue of the ileum with inflammatory changes due to Crohn's disease | |
Specialty | Internal medicine |
Symptoms | Diarrhoea; fever; abdominal pain, abdominal bloating; nutrient deficiencies |
Complications | Dehydration, headache, electrolyte imbalance; sepsis (infectious enteritis); tissue dysplasia, cancer; small intestine bacterial overgrowth |
Causes | Infectious; autoimmune; ischemic; radiation; toxic; idiopathic; other |
Duodenitis, jejunitis, and ileitis are subtypes of enteritis which are localised to a specific part of the small intestine. Inflammation of both the stomach and small intestine is referred to as gastroenteritis.[2]