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Your gut's way of hitting eject on something it didn't trust.
means An abnormally loose, watery, and frequent bowel movement, usually caused by infection, irritation, or something your digestive system wants gone fast.
from From Greek diarrhoia, built from dia- ('through') and rhein ('to flow') — literally 'a flowing through.' The same rhein root shows up in words like 'rheumatic' and 'catarrh,' all tied to the idea of fluid in motion. The term passed into Latin and then English largely unchanged, which tells you something: the Greeks already named it precisely, and nobody since has felt the need to improve on 'things flowing through you.'
- actual definition
- three or more loose stools in a day
- main danger
- dehydration kills faster than the cause
- global toll
- second leading cause of death under age five
- fix that works
- sugar-salt-water rehydration saves millions yearly