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+)
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