Symptomatics and treatment of chronic colitis in adults

Chronic colitis is considered a dangerous disease, manifested in inflammation of the intestinal wall.

Moreover, the mucosa of this organ is sometimes amazed so much that it loses its ability to perform its functions. But the degree and nature of lesions of the intestinal tissues can be different.

According to these criteria, colitis is catarrhal, ulcerative, spastic and atrophic. Each kind of this disease manifests itself in its own way and requires special treatment.

How to deal with symptoms of catarrhal colitis?

Catarrhal colitis can be called the initial stage of chronic bowel disease.

It arises as a consequence of digestive disorders due to the use of harmful food, a scarce production of enzymes or other valid reason and bothers the patient for about three days.

Catarrhal colitis should be treated without delay, since later it will result in a more severe illness, including ulcerative colitis.

If colitis is catarrhal, it is accompanied by a swelling of the colon of the colon, reddening of its walls and the formation of small wounds on them.

The swollen intestines can become covered with cracks, which will damage the integrity of the epithelium of the digestive organ.

Catarrhal colitis has the following symptoms:

• increased gas production, due to which it expands stomach;
• pain of an acute nature, felt where the stomach is located;
• a constant sense of weakness, which causes rapid fatigue and drowsiness;
• admixture of blood clots and mucus in feces;
• is not backed up by constant irritability;
• fever( usually 37-38 degrees).

To eliminate these symptoms and restore the intestinal mucosa, it is required to conduct competent treatment, including a diet.

In the first days of the onset of the disease, food should be gentle so as not to overwork the unhealthy digestive organ, and therefore excluding many foods.

A ban is imposed on fried, salted, greasy and generously seasoned with spices at a time when the intestines have affected catarrhal colitis.

Allowed boiled and stewed food can only be eaten in grated form.

To eat dietary dishes should be under the supervision of a doctor who will tell you what you need to eat portions and how nutritious food should be.

In addition to dietary advice, the doctor gives advice on drinking water to a patient who is concerned about catarrhal colitis.

A patient with this disease needs to drink plenty of water so that the body is not dehydrated. Sometimes it becomes necessary to put a dropper for the introduction of a salt solution through the vein.

Also, anyone who has catarrhal colitis, you can do intramuscular injections with a medical composition.

Catarrhal gastritis must be eliminated with enzyme preparations. For this, the doctor can recommend treatment with Mezim, Festal, Pancreatin, Creon, or some other tablet that facilitates the digestion of food.

To ensure that chronic colitis of the intestine of the catarrhal type ceases to disturb the patient with its manifestations, complex medical treatment with activated charcoal, Almagel, white clay and aluminum hydroxide is necessary.

If a patient has catarrhal colitis in the acute stage, the doctor prescribes antibiotics for him.

Such treatment is recommended to supplement with soothing and fortifying agents, like chamomile or sage broth.

How to get rid of ulcerative colitis?

Nonspecific ulcerative colitis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the colon of the large intestine, during which the period of exacerbation is replaced by the stage of remission.

Since ulcers appear in the intestines, this disease is characterized by the following symptoms:

• diarrhea, in which blood clots are found in liquid stool. Often they are mixed with pus and mucus, which makes the stool malodorous. The urge to empty the bowel ulcerative colitis can cause several to 20 times per day. Often they can be false when the large intestine is released solely from mucus;
• pain, which may not be the same in intensity. Sometimes nonspecific ulcerative colitis causes such strong pain sensations, which can not be absorbed even by special medicines. This is a sign of complications. It is especially difficult to endure pain after eating and before going to the toilet;
• poisoning of the body, which is accompanied by such signs as weakness, dizziness and bad mood, characterized by tearfulness and irritability. Ulcerative colitis worsens appetite, which makes a person lose weight.

In addition to intestinal manifestations, which strongly disturb a person during periods of exacerbation of the disease, ulcerative colitis has other symptoms.

They are associated with the lesion of the skin with erythema nodosum and necrosis. Ulcerative colitis covers the epidermis of the entire body with a rash due to the growth in the blood of bacteria and immune cells designed to destroy the first.

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On the mucous membrane of the mouth ulcerations of the oval form are formed. In some cases, ulcerative colitis leads to the development of eye diseases.

To cure ulcerative colitis, doctors initially use conservative therapy. First of all, it involves dietary nutrition.

While nonspecific ulcerative colitis is aggravated, one has to starve and drink one water.

Later, as the pain subsides and the severity of other symptoms decreases, it is allowed to eat protein foods that contain almost no fat.

That is, at this time you can eat boiled eggs, low-fat cottage cheese, beef without fatty interlayers and lean fish.

The diet for chronic colitis with the formation of mucous ulcers prohibits eating foods that contain coarse fiber, as they can damage the unhealthy walls of the digestive organ.

In addition to diets, patients with ulcerative bowel disease are treated by the following means:

• vitamins, because the patient is forbidden to eat fresh fruits and vegetables - sources of nutrients;
• with anti-inflammatory drugs, such as "Sulfasalazine";
• with corticosteroid hormone tablets, that is, "Prednisolone" or "Methylprednisolone";
• antibiotics, for example, "Cyphrane";
• anesthetics and medications to stop diarrhea.

What should I do to eliminate the symptoms of spastic colitis?

Spastic colitis is called physicians a syndrome of irritation of the large intestine. For the most part, it is manifested by spasms, strong whipping in the abdomen and disruption of the colon.

This chronic colitis is characterized by inflammation and mucosa, and the muscles of the digestive organ.

This leads to a narrowing of the space between the walls of the intestine, then to its shortening, and even later to the formation of polyps.

Usually spastic colitis causes such symptoms as:

• pronounced bloating;
• acute pain in the stomach;
• diarrhea, which is replaced by constipation from time to time, as the intestine does not work properly;
• is a cluster in the large intestine of gases.

If the spastic colitis is severe, the patient experiences severe pain during defecation, suffers from nausea and vomiting, and also rapidly loses weight.

These symptoms are caused by adherence to the walls of the intestine of a large amount of mucus, mixed with pus, swelling of the mucous membrane of the digestive organ and the appearance of ulcers.

Another spastic colitis provokes a sharp increase in the level of leukocytes in the blood.

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Treatment of spastic colitis, aimed at eliminating spasms and constipation, requires the implementation of certain rules:

• at this time it is very important to keep a diary diet journal. It should make notes on how the digestive organs react to a particular product;The
• diet for chronic colitis, expressed in severe spasms, implies an absolute rejection of sweets, especially those made of chocolate. Also, you need to minimize the food fatty and fried in oil dishes. Dangerous for the intestines in this disease are butter and vegetable oils, margarine and avocado;
• instead of a whole cow, you can drink only such milk, in which a low percentage of fat. Otherwise, the symptoms of the disease will be more pronounced;
• for improving the functioning of the intestines of a patient who is troubled by spastic colitis, it is useful to eat vegetables, fruits and legumes;
• signs of the disease will manifest weaker if eaten in small portions.

Observing the diet, you need to take a set of medications. To eliminate such symptoms as painful sensations and spasms, "No-shpa" or "Buskopan" will help.

In addition to these drugs, it is recommended to take "Trimedat", which regulates the musculature of the digestive system.

To calm the intestines, irritated with constipation and diarrhea, it is necessary to supplement the treatment with "Loperamide".To get rid of constipation is suitable "Enzistal", which includes bile.

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The best remedy against the incessant diarrhea sometimes caused by spastic colitis is Creon.

If, in addition to problems with defecation, worried about bloating and increased gas formation, then you need to take Smectu, Espumizan and activated charcoal.

Often spastic colitis leads to dysbiosis, so treatment can not do without the use of "Linex" or "Bifidumbacterin."

What is effective against the symptoms of atrophic colitis?

Doctors diagnose non-ulcerative atrophic colitis, when inflammation of the intestinal mucosa has caused its thinning.

This phenomenon occurs with a long neglect of pathology, which eventually becomes chronic. It is no longer possible to get rid of it with the help of the previously chosen therapeutic therapy.

Symptoms of bowel disease associated with atrophy of its mucosa depend on the stage of the disease:

1. in the first phase of atrophic colitis, which is considered relatively easy, the patient is confronted with an intestinal dysfunction and loses about 7 kg. To bring the functioning of the digestive system back to normal at this time is possible through a proper diet;
2. in the second phase of the disease, moderate in severity, there is a significant loss in weight, hemoglobin deficiency in the blood and vitamin deficiency;
3. in the third phase of the bowel disease the patient suffers from severe intestinal disorders, nutrients from the food are not absorbed by the body, and the inflammatory process passes to the organs located next to the intestine. Because of this, often no other treatment is possible, except for resection of the large intestine.

When there is a period of exacerbation of the disease, accompanied by atrophy of the intestinal mucosa, other symptoms are found.

There is an acute unbearable pain, scattered all over the stomach, and painful urge to the toilet.

Also, non-ulcerative atrophic colitis in the acute phase is characterized by such symptoms as a disorder of the stool, that is, the patient may suffer from constipation, severe flatulence, nausea and vomiting.

Various methods are used to treat this disease, it all depends on the cause of the onset of the disease, at which the intestinal mucosa atrophies.

If it was caused by strong emotional experiences, the patient must be sent to a conversation with a psychotherapist.

In some cases, the culprit of the development of this disease is antibiotics, used for a long time, so when symptoms of atrophic colitis arise, they should be abandoned.

But the main reason for the appearance of a chronic disease associated with intestinal atrophy is the use of harmful foods and an improper diet.

Therefore, the treatment of such a disease is based on the observance of a diet that excludes sharp, salty, fried and acidic foods. The mode of food intake is completely revised.

Instead of three it is necessary to eat not less than six times, but by and by. Nutrition for chronic colitis of this kind is based on the formula 1x1x4, which indicates the ratio of fats, proteins and carbohydrates.

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Medications that are able to eliminate non-ulcerative atrophic colitis are drugs from the sulfonamide group.

In addition to them, the treatment of this disease is supplemented by the use of antispasmodics, astringent tablets( with diarrhea) or laxatives( with constipation).

Non-ulcerative atrophic colitis will stop bothering as soon as the muscular and intestinal mucosa can be restored.

So, how to treat chronic colitis of a particular species, it became known. The main thing is to start therapy on time, so that the disease does not become a reason for the complete removal of the large intestine.

To eliminate bowel disease, you need to sit on a strict, but nutritious diet based on the nutrition of lean, but healthy food.

You also need to take medications that fight the symptoms of colitis and restore bowel function.