What Doctors Don't Tell YouThe other day, at a checkup for our puppy Ollie, I was having a word with our holistic vet about all the unmentionables that go with dog-owning: dirt, worms, fleas and stools.
Dr John Hermon-Taylor, the IBD researcher, noted that there are seasonal differences in the prevalence of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis which may explain why some sufferers of Crohn's experience ...
My niece, aged 10, has been diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. It worries me that she will be taking immunosuppressant drugs for six years. I believe she developed the condition after being regularly exposed to antibacterial cleaners as a baby and...
Mrs L.K., a 43-year-old homemaker from Bury in Lancashire, came to see me for some tests to detect possible early signs of malignancy in her gut. She was particularly cautious because her father, mother and brother had all died of bowel cancer in...
Change your diet. A wide range of nutritional disturbances have been recognized in Crohn's and UC patients (J R Col Physicians London, 1986; 20: 45-8; Postgrad Med J, 1983; 50: 690-7). .. ...
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, is a much graver condition than irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). However, both tend to be accompanied by unexpla ...
What’s it for?
Barium enemas are given to test for a range of disorders of the lower intestinal tract, including cancer, diverticulitis, polyps, irritable colon, ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease
Getting dirty to stay healthy is a foreign notion to many of us - and eating dirt to stay healthy even more so. While it may seem primitive, eating earth (geophagy) is a universal phenomenon even today.
Doctors sometimes use a combination of herbs to soothe inflammation in the digestive tract. Aloe vera juice is often recommended, though it is not well studied in inflammatory bowel disease.
