Seven patients with intractable diarrhea were found to be excreting large quantities of chloride in the stool, associated with metabolic alkalosis, hyponatremia, hypokalemia, hypochloremia, and the excretion of chloride-free urine. They appear to have had an acquired, transient form of chloride diarrhea. We speculate that the diarrhea may have been perpetuated, in part, by fecal loss of chloride.
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From: Fortuine, Robert et al. 1993. The Health of the Inuit of North America: A Bibliography from the Earliest Times through 1990. University of Alaska Anchorage. Citation number 2573.