chronic⚑ High burden in India

Tropical sprue

Tropical sprue is a malabsorption disease commonly found in tropical regions, marked with abnormal flattening of the villi and of the lining of the small . It differs significantly from coeliac sprue. It appears to be a more severe form of environmental enteropathy.

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Symptoms — what it feels like

·Diarrhoea, pain, weight loss

How it's found

· histology

Treatment

·, replacement

Complications

·Malabsorption,

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