Post-enteritis syndrome | Possible after any enteric infection |
Rotavirus |
Giardia lamblia |
Salmonella species |
Campylobacter species |
Type IV hypersensitivity syndromes | This mechanism of epithelial damage underlies the post-enteritis syndrome, which may be complicated with protein sensitisation, i.e. CMSE |
Coeliac disease |
Cow’s milk sensitive enteropathy (CMSE) |
Autoimmune enteropathy | |
Graft versus host disease | |
Host versus graft (small bowel allograft rejection) | |
Primary carbohydrate maldigestion | Milder forms of single gene defects may be unrecognised even through to adult life (more common with sucrase isomaltase and lactose intolerance) |
• Lactose intolerance (2 q21) |
• Glucose-galactose malabsorption (22 q13) |
• Sucrase-isomaltase deficiency (3q 25–26) |