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Colitis
Colitis is inflammation of the colon or large intestine. It can have many different causes, including infection and diet. Patients may experience diarrhea and lower abdominal pain.
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Is a gluten free diet effective for ulcerative colitis?
A gluten free diet is very effective for ulcerative colitis. Since ulcerative colitis is an intolerance to gluten, one with this condition would benefit greatly from a gluten free diet.
What anaerobic bacteria found in stool specimens is the etiological agent pseudomembranous colitis?
Clostridium difficile
What happens if you don't treat colitis?
Prolonged diarrhoea, bleeding can cause malnutrition and anaemia. Long standing colitis can form polyps and can develop into cancer
Does ulcerative colitis get worst?
Yes it can sometimes get worse. Long standing cases can develop polyps and even change into cancer and will require yearly surveillance
How would a person know they have ulcerative colitis?
As pretty as this all sounds, mostly frequent diarrhea with blood and mucous, along with cramping. There may be others, but I don't recall, I'd say the one I gave would be the most obvious. You'd have to go to the doctor and they'd probably order blood tests to make sure it's not something else; if those didn't say much, they'd want you to get a colonoscopy with biopsies.
Proctitis: Inflammation of the rectum. This may be due to a considerable number of causes, among them infectious agents and ulcerative colitis.
Infectious proctitis is often due to agents such as Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrheae (the bacteria that causes gonorrhea) and herpes simplex virus that can be acquired during receptive anoreceptive intercourse.
Proctitis is a hallmark of ulcerative colitis, an inflammatory bowel disease of unknown origin. In fact, the rectum is always involved in ulcerative colitis. Ulcerative colitis limited to the rectum is called ulcerative proctitis. (The inflammation may also extend into the upper parts of the colon). Intermittent rectal bleeding, crampy abdominal pain and diarrhea that wax and wane are characteristic consequences of ulcerative colitis.
The word proctitis comes from the Greek proktos meaning the hindparts or anus + the ending -itis meaning inflammation.
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=7372
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