Treatment For Colitis
- Ulcerative Colitis
- What Is It? & Symptoms
- Diagnosis & Expected Duration
- Prevention & Treatment
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Prevention
There is no way to prevent ulcerative colitis. However, some people are able to decrease the frequency of symptoms by avoiding certain foods, such as spicy foods or milk products. If you have ulcerative colitis, you can decrease the toll the condition takes on your body by eating a well-balanced, nutritious diet. By storing up vitamins and nutrients, even between episodes with symptoms, you can decrease complications from malnutrition, such as weight loss or a low blood count.
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Melatonin: A Possible Treatment for Ulcerative Colitis
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From Our Sources
Gene variant may hold key to Crohn's, colitis treatment
A study funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health has found a gene that may help protect its carriers against Crohn's disease and colitis.... Read more »
Colitis
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Treatment is directed at the cause of disease (infection, inflammation, lack of blood flow, or another cause).See the conditions listed above for... Read more »
Ulcerative Colitis: Surgical Procedures
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
www.ccfa.org -- Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of Americawww.gastro.org -- American Gastroenterological Associationwww.acg.gi.org -- American... Read more »
CMV: gastroenteritis/colitis
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
CMV gastroenteritis/colitis is inflammation of the stomach or intestine due to infection with cytomegalovirus (CMV).See also:CMV esophagitisCMV... Read more »
Ischemic colitis
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Colonic ischemiaTreatmentTreatment for mild ischemic colitis often involves:AntibioticsLiquid diet at firstFluids through a vein (by IV)Pain... Read more »
Six Treatment Options for Ulcerative Colitis
Drug Therapies Some cases of Ulcerative Colitis are treated with medications. The aim of drug therapies is to alleviate and resolve the symtpoms of UC by inducing remission of the diesease, prevent flare ups by maintaining remission. There...
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