ME05.1 Diarrhoea

International Classification of Diseases for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics, 11th Revision, v2025-01

Diarrhoea is an acute or chronic condition in which there is an increased frequency or decreased consistency of bowel movements, usually with excessive and frequent evacuation of watery faeces. Here diarrhoea other than specifically described elsewhere, such as in motility disorders of intestine or in functional bowel diseases, is described.

inclusions

• frequent/loose bowel movements
• watery stools

exclusions

• Melaena  (ME24.A4)
• Change in faeces or bowel movements  (ME00-ME0Y)
• Functional diarrhoea  (DD91.2)
• infectious diarrhoea  (1A00-1A40.Z)

code elsewhere

• Noninfectious neonatal diarrhoea  (KB8C)

postcoordination

synonyms

• Diarrhoea
• noninfectious diarrhoea
• frequent/loose bowel movements
• watery stools
• catarrhal diarrhoea
• watery diarrhoea
• overflow diarrhoea

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