Ulcerative colitis. Symptoms. Treatment.

Ulcerative colitis is a chronic, prone to recurrent colon disease with an unclear etiology that is characterized by purulent inflammation with hemorrhages and frequent systemic and local complications. An accurate statistical picture of the spread of this formidable disease is not possible to obtain, as often asymptomatic and mild cases are not considered, and especially at the onset of the disease. Such patients usually undergo therapy in non-specialized medical institutions and are not included in the statistics.

Most often this disease affects people between the ages of twenty and to forty years. The second largest group of patients is the age group of over fifty-five. The highest death rates occur in the first year of the disease due to the fairly frequent development of a very severe lightning-fast form of the disease, as well as the tenth year, due to the development of colorectal cancer in some patients .

Not fully understood the role of individual factors surrounding the human environment, for example, the same smoking. Based on the results of numerous epidemiological studies, it becomes clear that this pathology often develops in non-smokers. This information allowed us to start using nicotine for the treatment of ulcerative colitis . It also reduces the risk of developing this disease, the transferred operation - appendectomy, and constant physical activity.

Ulcerative colitis. Symptoms

Of the local manifestations for this disease are characterized by alternating constipation and diarrhea, tenesmus and persistent abdominal pains, the most formidable manifestation is intestinal bleeding. And from general manifestations - a gradual decrease in the patient's body weight, a recurring fever, attacks of nausea, vomiting, general weakness and weakness. Depending on the extent to which the ulcer colitis has affected the colon , the symptoms may differ significantly. For example, with a severe total lesion of almost the entire colon, profuse diarrhea takes place, in the fecal masses - an admixture of blood, which in some cases is secreted as clots. Before defecation, the patient suffers from cramping pain in the abdomen. Anemia, symptoms of general intoxication, such as weight loss, constant general weakness , are expressed. Ulcerative colitis, the symptoms of which are described above, can often be accompanied by complications that pose a direct and obvious threat to the life of this patient: perforation of the large intestine, intestinal massive bleeding, or toxic megacolon. Most often, such a course occurs in patients who developed a lightning-fast form of ulcerative colitis.

The diagnosis of "ulcerative colitis" is established, based on the overall clinical picture of the disease, on the data obtained as a result of the administration of radiosurgical, x-ray and endoscopic methods of investigation.

Whatever triggered ulcerative colitis, symptoms, treatment of it depends on many factors: the localization of the inflammatory process, its length, the severity of the attack, and the presence of all kinds of complications are important. Conservative treatment is primarily aimed at the rapid arrest of the attack that arose, as well as on the prevention of the disease and the progression of the pathological process. Ulcerative colitis, the symptoms of which are lighter, are most often localized in the distal (lower) parts of the colon, for example, proctosigmoiditis or proctitis. The treatment of such patients is done outpatiently. But those patients who have had total or left-sided lesions have much more symptomatic symptoms and therefore are subject to 100% hospitalization.

Ulcerative colitis, a diet for which will be quite high-calorie, rich in vitamins and proteins, but limited in the use of vegetable coarse fiber and animal fats, will give in to treatment much faster than in the case of an unlimited diet.