What is diarrhea doing to make your bowel movements frequent and watery?

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What is diarrhea doing to make your bowel movements frequent and watery?

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Diarrhea isn’t the cause, it’s the effect. Your bowels are being stimulated to push everything through faster than normal- this could be a response many things, like ingestion of a toxin/irritant or stimulation of the smooth muscles in your intestinal walls by a stimulant.

Your large intestine is where absorption of water takes place, and by passing everything through faster, the bowels aren’t able to absorb water fast enough to keep everything solid. As a result, you get diarrhea.

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