Category: Health A – Z
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Enteric Neuropathy – Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
Congenital short bowel syndrome/Intestinal pseudo-obstruction is severe impairment in the ability of the intestines to push food through or a condition characterized by impairment of the muscle contractions that move food through the digestive tract. It can occur at any time of life, and its symptoms range from mild to severe. The condition may arise…
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Congenital Short Bowel Syndrome – Symptoms, Treatment
Congenital Short Bowel Syndrome/Intestinal pseudo-obstruction is a severe impairment in the ability of the intestines to push food through or a condition characterized by impairment of the muscle contractions that move food through the digestive tract. It can occur at any time of life, and its symptoms range from mild to severe. The condition may…
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Chronic Idiopathic Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction
Chronic Idiopathic Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction/Intestinal pseudo-obstruction is a severe impairment in the ability of the intestines to push food through or a condition characterized by impairment of the muscle contractions that move food through the digestive tract. It can occur at any time of life, and its symptoms range from mild to severe. The condition may…
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Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction – Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
Intestinal pseudo-obstruction is a severe impairment in the ability of the intestines to push food through or a condition characterized by impairment of the muscle contractions that move food through the digestive tract. It can occur at any time of life, and its symptoms range from mild to severe. The condition may arise from abnormalities…
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Intestinal Aganglionosis – Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
Intestinal Aganglionosis/Hirschsprung disease, also known as congenital megacolon or intestinal aganglionosis. (HD) is a congenital disorder characterized by the absence of ganglion cells (GC) at the Meissner’s plexus (submucosa) and Auerbach’s plexus (muscular) of the terminal rectum that extends in a variable distance proximally. It is responsible for non-specific symptomatology, including chronic constipation and neonatal…
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Food Poisoning – Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
Food poisoning is a food-borne disease. Ingestion of food that contains a toxin, chemical or infectious agent (like a bacterium, virus, parasite, or prion) may cause adverse symptoms in the body. Those symptoms may be related only to the gastrointestinal tract causing vomiting or diarrhea or they may involve other organs such as the kidney, brain, or muscle.…
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Colon Polyps – Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
Colon polyps also known as colorectal polyps are their macroscopic appearance as sessile (flat, arising directly from the mucosal layer) or pedunculated (extending from the mucosa through a fibrovascular stalk) growths on the lining of your colon and rectum. You can have more than one colon polyp. Colon polyps are protrusions occurring in the colon…
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Chronic Diarrhea – Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
Chronic diarrhea is defined as the passage of loose or liquid stools, watery stools three or more times a day for at least 4 weeks and urgent need to evacuate or feelings of abdominal discomfort, or increased frequency of these, lasting more than 4 weeks.[rx,rx] Stool consistency is determined by the relationship between faecal water and…
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Acute Diverticulitis – Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
Acute Diverticulitis/Diverticulosis is a clinical condition of inflammation due to micro-perforation and herniations of the colonic mucosa and submucosa through the muscle layers, in which multiple sac-like protrusions, abscesses, fistulas, peritonitis, and colonic stenosis, small pouches, or sacs, form and push outward through weak spots in the wall of your colon(diverticula) that develop along the…
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Complicated Diverticulitis – Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
Complicated Diverticulitis/Diverticulosis is a clinical condition of inflammation due to micro-perforation and herniations of the colonic mucosa and submucosa through the muscle layers, in which multiple sac-like protrusions, abscesses, fistulas, peritonitis, and colonic stenosis, small pouches, or sacs, form and push outward through weak spots in the wall of your colon(diverticula) that develop along the…
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Dumping Syndrome – Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
Dumping syndrome is the rapid passage or rapid gastric emptying of food especially sugar, fluid, sweets fruits, from the stomach to the small intestine and duodenum, which leads to early gastrointestinal and vasomotor symptoms (within 1 h) and late hypoglycemia (1 to 3 h after meal ingestion) [rx,rx] which mainly characterized by abdominal pain, nausea-vomiting,…
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What Is Prostatitis? – Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
What Is Prostatitis?/Prostatitis is inflammation or swelling of the prostate gland. When symptoms start gradually and linger for more than a couple of weeks, the condition is called chronic prostatitis. The prostate is a walnut-shaped gland that is part of the male reproductive system. The main function of the prostate is to make a fluid…