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  #1

why avoid the antimotility agants when in diarrhea?
what about the relationship?

  #2

Avoid antimobility in infectious or toxic diarrhea only because it lenghtens the time of toxin/bacteria in the intestine.

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  #3

agree, it's usually avoided in diarrhea by invasive organisms.

  #4

Another way of saying it is letting your bowel movements get rid of enterotoxigenic E.Coli instead of taking Loperamide

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