Sentences with phrase «cause osmotic»

Excessive sugar (as with lactose intolerance - a milk sugar) or salt intake can cause osmotic diarrhea as can the use of too much water - soluble molecules, like magnesium or vitamin C, that result in increased fluid retention in the bowel.

Failure to digest lactose results in bacterial degradation of the sugar to volatile fatty acids which can cause an osmotic diarrhea.

This arises as the undigested foods ferment, and in some cases may cause osmotic diarrhea.

They showed that the cascade of events culminating in the condensation of the reflectins causes the osmotic pressure inside the lamellae to change drastically due to the expulsion of water, which shrinks and dehydrates the lamellae and reduces their thickness and spacing.

Once the product dissolves in your stomach, it causes an osmotic effect, increasing the concentration of the solutes inside the intestines higher than the ones outside the surrounding tissue.

Excessive glucose in the urine causes an osmotic pull of water, increasing urine volume, thus patients are urinating excessively.

Not exact matches

To understand what causes edema, you have to know about two terms: hydrostatic and osmotic pressure.

He adds, «Osmotic diarrhea is generally caused by a substance (usually sugar that is found in a juice or syrup), so avoidance of the causative agent» is one way to prevent it.

Goddard and Gray created two environments for the yeast in their lab — one containing relatively little carbon at an uncomfortably hot 37 °C, the other limited for nitrogen instead, at a less stressful 30 °C but with an «osmotic stress» caused by an unusual balance of salts.

High sodium diets are commonly used to study diet induced hypertension, since increasing levels of circulating sodium cause cells to release water (due to osmotic pressure) which elevates the pressure on blood vessel walls.

Isomalt attracts water from the intestinal wall, so it can cause diarrhea (an osmotic effect) if consumed in excess.