Osmotic Diarrhoea
Clinical features of osmotic diarrhea
- Osmotic diarrhoea stops when patient fasts.
- Serum osmolality is less than the osmolality of the stool
fluid.
- Osmotic gap >125 milliosm/L
- Osmotic gap is calculated by the formula: 290 — 2 X(Na* +
K+)