enteritis
Sign in to saveEnteritis is inflammation of the small intestine. It is most commonly caused by food or drink contaminated with pathogenic microbes, such as Serratia, but may have other causes such as NSAIDs, radiation therapy as well as autoimmune conditions like coeliac disease. Symptoms may include abdominal pain, cramping, diarrhoea, dehydration, and fever. Related diseases of the gastrointestinal (GI) system (including gastritis, gastroenteritis, colitis, and enterocolitis) may involve inflammation of the stomach and large intestine.
Key facts
- Medical condition.name
- Enteritis
- Medical condition.image
- Crohn's ileitis - biopsy, intermed. mag.1.jpg
- Medical condition.caption
- Tissue of the ileum with inflammatory changes due to Crohn's disease
- Medical condition.field
- Internal medicine
- Medical condition.symptoms
- Diarrhoea; fever; abdominal pain, abdominal bloating; nutrient deficiencies
- Medical condition.complications
- Dehydration, headache, electrolyte imbalance; sepsis (infectious enteritis); tissue dysplasia, cancer; small intestine bacterial overgrowth, eating disorders
- Medical condition.causes
- Infectious; autoimmune; ischemic; radiation; toxic; idiopathic; other
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Research
82,351 papers- Viral Enteritis in Solid-Organ Transplantation.Viruses · 2021
- Enteritis necroticans and Clostridium perfringens type C; Epidemiological and pathological findings over the past 20 years.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025
- Viral enteritis.Pediatric clinics of North America · 1988
- Gastritis, Enteritis, and Colitis in Horses.The Veterinary clinics of North America. Equine practice · 2015
- Infectious enteritis. A collective review.Diseases of the colon and rectum · 1990
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- C26765
- Commons category
- Enteritis
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Article
14 sectionsContents
- Signs and symptoms
- Causes
- Immune mediated
- Autoimmune
- Infectious enteritis
- Vascular disease
- Radiation enteritis
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Autoimmune
- Etymology
- See also
- References
- External links
Enteritis is inflammation of the small intestine. It is most commonly caused by food or drink contaminated with pathogenic microbes, such as Serratia, but may have other causes such as NSAIDs, radiation therapy as well as autoimmune conditions like coeliac disease. Symptoms may include abdominal pain, cramping, diarrhoea, dehydration, and fever. Related diseases of the gastrointestinal (GI) system (including gastritis, gastroenteritis, colitis, and enterocolitis) may involve inflammation of the stomach and large intestine.
Duodenitis, jejunitis, and ileitis are subtypes of enteritis which are localised to a specific part of the small intestine. Inflammation of both the stomach and small intestine is referred to as gastroenteritis.