Ulcerative colitis is a chronic, prone tofrequent recurrences of colon disease with an unclear etiology that is characterized by purulent inflammation with hemorrhages and often occurring systemic and local complications. An accurate statistical picture of the spread of this formidable disease is not possible to obtain, since 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 inbetween the ages of twenty and up to forty. The second largest number of patients in the age group is people over fifty-five years old. 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 for the tenth year, due to the development of colorectal cancer in some patients.
The role of individual factors has not been fully clarifiedhuman environment, for example, the same smoking. According to 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
From local manifestations for this diseasecharacterized by alternating constipation and diarrhea, tenesmus and persistent pain in the abdomen, the most formidable manifestation - intestinal bleeding. And from general manifestations - a gradual decrease in the body weight of the patient, a recurring fever, attacks of nausea, resulting in 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 pains 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 present a direct and obvious threat to the life of the patient: large intestine perforation, 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"based on the general clinical picture of the disease, on the data obtained as a result of the rectoromanoscopic, radiographic and endoscopic methods of investigation.
Whatever was the triggered ulcerativecolitis, 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 rapid arrest of the attack, as well as on the prevention of 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 carried out outpatiently. But those patients who have been diagnosed with total or left-sided lesion have much more symptomatic symptoms and therefore are subject to 100% hospitalization.
Ulcerative colitis, a diet for which will besufficiently high-calorie, rich in vitamins and proteins, but limited in the use of vegetable coarse fiber and animal fats, will yield to treatment much faster than in the case of an unlimited diet.
