What are the different types of malabsorption disorders? Deficiencies in micronutrients - vitamins and minerals - may affect your eyes, bones, skin and hair. Deficiencies in any of the macronutrients - protein, fats or carbohydrates - will cause signs of undernutrition, such as muscle wasting and reduced immunity. Over time, your body will start to show signs of deficiency in those nutrients that you can’t absorb. In the short term, malabsorption will cause gastrointestinal distress from the inability to digest certain foods. With diarrhea, food moves too fast through your bowels for nutrients to be absorbed. People with malabsorption syndrome often have diarrhea as a side effect, which can make malabsorption worse. Whatever you can’t absorb will pass undigested in your stools. You can have general malabsorption, which affects your ability to absorb all nutrients, or you can have particular difficulties absorbing certain kinds of nutrients. They include specific food intolerances caused by enzyme deficiencies, as well as various gastrointestinal diseases that affect your digestive system. Malabsorption disorders cover the second stage. If you have digestive difficulties, the problem could be in any of these three stages (or several). And the third part is eliminating the waste that is left over when all the good stuff has been absorbed. The second part is absorbing all the nutrients in your food. The first part is breaking down food into digestible pieces. You can think of digestion as a three-part process. Malabsorption can lead to indigestion and even malnutrition - not from a lack of eating enough nutrients, but from an inability to absorb them. Malabsorption is an umbrella term for a wide range of disorders that affect your ability to absorb nutrients from your food.
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