Habba Syndrome is the name of dangerous disease, which is an association between chronic diarrhea and dysfunctional intact gallbladder. The patients who are affected by Habba Syndrome show different degrees of chronic diarrhea (Three or more Bowl Movements per day for at least three months). Diarrhea is characteristically described as recurrent, may be watery in nature and loose bowel movements. They could be volatile at times and may even be related with even incontinence and great urgency. Diarrhea is generally after meals (post prandial diarhea). Patients commonly look for a bathroom wherever they go as a result of this urgency, so it is also called “bathroom mapping”.

These symptoms are often very upsetting and may cause social humiliation and interference with daily behavior. In Habba Syndrome some patients lose weight because they are scared to eat for alarm of getting diarrhea and even some are homebound in trepidation of social humiliation. Diarrhea is once in a blue moon night time, except the patient had a late meal close to bedtime.

Habba Syndrome is not linked with blood, if it is not comes from frustration of the rectal area because of regular bowel movements.

Saad F. Habba was the first to found the Habba Syndrome which was published in “American College of Gastroenterology Journal Vol. 95, Issue 8, Page 2141, August 2000.” He originate that this type of diarrhea is connected with dysfunctional gallbladder.

Habba Syndrome