How Did I Ever Get This Way? “What I’d like to know is how did I ever get this way?” This is the favorite lament of colitis patients. Many think that the ailment cause is invariably infectious in nature. The fact of the matter is quite the contrary. The...
Oral and Other Gastrointestinal
Gastrointestinal topics inflammatory bowel disease, colitis, irritable bowel syndrome, constipation, diseases of the mouth, teeth, oesophagus, digestive system including liver and colon, and normal oral and gastrointestinal development and function.
Colitis Misdiagnosis
Go Home and Forget About It – Colitis Misdiagnosis There are few situations in the field of health which are more distressing both to patient and to doctor than being faced with a string of negative results of all examinations. Patients are often told, “there is nothing wrong with...
Colitis Diarrhea Trots
It Can Happen Anywhere – Colitis Diarrhea Literally from the halls of Montezuma, where they call it the Aztec Two-step, to the shores of Tripoli where it became famous as the Tropical Trots (Informal Diarrhea), colitis in some form or other is universal. It has been prevalent, probably, ever...
Case of Colitis Signal And Symptoms
How to Tell a Case of Colitis It is easy to tell a victim of colitis, but it is hard to tell him very much! There are few ailments in which the patient is so willing to dispute your diagnosis. “But Doctor,” says one for instance, “how can I...
Colitis Symptoms Here’s The Deal
Departures from Normal The presence of colitis symptoms are evidenced by certain disturbances of sensation and function which vary greatly in degree depending, of course, upon the intensity of the irritation of the mucous membrane of the colon. Here’s the deal: The presence of gas, a certain sense of...
Your Intestinal Tract
Inside Information on Your Intestinal Tract In order to come to a conclusion or form a judgment with respect to anything in life, it is necessary to have a yardstick of measurement as a basis for comparison. It is for this reason I feel that when I suggest that...
Digestion Canal
YOUR TABLE OF CONTENTS The food digestion canal is a soft tube with a hard life. Indeed, a long soft tube with, very often, a short, hard life. Its trials and troubles concern us all, for it is the one essential organ wherewith we live on our daily bread....
Colitis Name Variations
Let’s Come to Terms, Dear Reader – What is Colitis? What’s in a name? It is rather difficult to believe that a disorder as prevalent as colitis should escape detection and evade being called by its right name. However, that is truly the state of affairs. I refer not...
Crazy Colon Organ
Meet the Crazy Colon For many years past (over one-third of a century), I have had the opportunity of acting as a sort of Secretary of the Interior for countless scores of people. They have come to me complaining about their insides, their stomachs and colons, their digestive systems...
Intestinal Rumblings Stomach Noises
Stop the Music! Broadcasting noise is to be expected from a radio station but it always comes as a rather embarrassing surprise when it originates somewhere in the center of your stomach organs of indigestion. At times the music may only be perhaps nothing more than a casual murmur...