What if I told you that there is an illness that occurs in Americans about once a year and it's not taken very seriously?

But when it happens more than once a year, they come to the doctor.

You might be wondering maybe this is a common cold, maybe it's something to do with

muscular skeletal pain. It turns out it's diarrhea and yes it wouldn't be a med geeks

podcast and me your host Dr Niket Son, an internist and gastrantroologist if we didn't discuss

diarrhea. But you might be saying to yourself, we've discussed diarrhea a lot. In fact, we've talked

about it with travel, we've talked about it with irritable bowel syndrome.

And yes, when you're actually having a patient who has diarrhea,

the differentials are broad.

You have to worry about inflammatory bowel disease.

You have to worry about irritable bowel syndrome, food-borne

illnesses, and even medication side effects.

Speaking of medication side effects, that brings up one differential that's often forgotten, and it's actually the topic of today's

podcast. Now you might be wondering what is this mystery cause of diarrhea?

Well it's first described in 1980 and it's known as microscopic kaleidous

an inflammatory condition that it's known as microscopic kaleitis, an inflammatory condition that it's often overlooked,

but once figured out, can really give your patients a lot of relief.

So join me this week while we go over the diagnosis and management of microscopic

kaleitis and let's jump right in. So what is microscopic kaleidus is this inflammatory bowel disease? Well it is

inflammation but it's a little bit different.

Now before we get into the mid-gritty, let me just over-archingly from a 50,000-point view

explain to you what microscopic kaleidus is. It's essentially a reaction to an

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