Chronic Diarrhea : Inflammatory diarrhea

Characterize by the presence of blood and pus in the stool which usually occurs as a result of ulceration of the mucosa

Inflammatory bowel disease such as Crohns disease and ulcerative colitis The lining of the gut becomes inflamed. This is usually caused by bacterial infections, viral infections, parasitic infections, or autoimmune problems such as IBS (inflammatory bowel disease).

Chronic Diarrhea: Fatty diarrhea

May result from malabsorption in mucosal diseases such as celiac disease whipple disease short bowel syndrome secondary to extensive surgical resection of small intestine small bowl bacterial overgrowth syndrome mesenteric ischemia Also maybe the consequence of maldigestion of fats cause by pancreatic exocrine deficiency or inadequate luminal bile acid concentration

Inflammatory bowel disease

Ulcerative colitis is marked by chronic bloody diarrhea and inflammation mostly affects the distal colon near the rectum. Crohn's disease typically affects fairly well demarcated segments of bowel in the colon and often affects the end of the small bowel.