Gastrointestinal diseases are affecting the health of more and more people and reducing their sense of well-being. Chronic colitis as a gastrointestinal disease has become a health “killer”, so what is chronic colitis and how to treat it?
What is chronic colitis?
Chronic colitis is a chronic, recurrent, and multiple disease with the colon, sigmoid colon, and rectum as the site of origin. It refers to inflammatory edema, ulceration, and bleeding lesions in the intestines of the rectum and colon due to various pathogenic causes. Symptoms include left lower abdominal pain, diarrhea, shortness of breath, fluid in the stool, constipation or diarrhea alternately, sometimes good and sometimes bad, and recurrent attacks.
The following symptoms alert chronic colitis
The usual irregular bowel movements and irregular diet can easily lead to intestinal diseases. The typical symptoms of chronic colitis are irregular stools, unformed or hard stools, and mucus in the stool. The following symptoms should also be alert to chronic colitis.
1. Constipation. Colitis and proctitis are the causes of constipation.
2, intestinal bleeding. It is one of the main symptoms of ulcerative colitis initially. In most cases, blood is mixed with liquid stool and can be attached to the outside of the stool during the stool.
3, stomach distension and pain. Chronic recurrent patients are often accompanied by abdominal pain, mostly mild to moderate cramping abdominal pain, mostly in the left lower abdomen and left side of the abdomen, in most cases paroxysmal, brief, mild abdominal pain, diarrhea attacks abdominal pain is significant.
4. Intestinal rumbling. Both abdominal rumbling.
Untimely or incomplete treatment of acute enteritis can lead to chronic colitis. The symptoms of chronic colitis are complex, there may be a single symptom or several symptoms at the same time, if you have the above symptoms should be promptly treated by a doctor.
How to effectively diagnose and treat chronic colitis?
In addition to identifying patients through their symptoms, chronic colitis can also be diagnosed through auxiliary examinations.
1, colonoscopy: endoscopy to clarify the different ranges of inflammation and the degree of lesions, so as to clarify the diagnosis. Chronic colon through pathological examination and continuous regular endoscopic follow-up after continuous adjustment of the treatment plan, can make colitis get reasonable and effective treatment.
2.Enema X-ray examination: it can observe the morphological changes of the whole colon and rectum, which is valuable for providing diagnostic basis, choosing treatment plan and estimating the length of disease.
3.Barium enema X-ray examination: it can be seen that the intestinal mucosal folds are disordered, and even the colonic pouch becomes shallow and disappears; the intestinal mucosa is congested, edema, capillary texture is unclear or disappears, or accompanied by superficial erosion, bleeding spots.
4, blood test: this test is to check for infection and inflammation.
5.Fecal test: in order to find blood, infection, and white blood cells.
In terms of treatment, Western medicine believes that there is inflammation in the colon and that untimely or incomplete treatment can become chronic. By anti-inflammatory and pain relief to treat; while Chinese medicine believes that the spleen is not in harmony, causing chronic colitis, focusing on both the symptoms and the root cause. Chronic colitis can be completely cured. In accordance with the patient’s individual physical characteristics, the use of Chinese medicine internal treatment and herbal enema therapy with colonoscopy can be a good treatment for chronic colitis.
Can chronic colitis turn into colon cancer?
There is a close relationship between acute colitis and chronic colitis. If chronic colitis is recurrent and lasts for a long time, the chances of its cancerous transformation increase if the patient has intestinal polyps. Therefore, polyps should be found and intestinal polyps should be cut out through colonoscopy.
How to prevent chronic colitis?
Adopt a healthy lifestyle and diet, keep regular bowel movements, drink less alcohol, and do not eat or eat less irritating food such as frozen. After the symptoms have completely disappeared, it is possible to prevent the recurrence of chronic colitis by stabilizing it for 3 to 1 year and slowly transitioning it.
During the onset and remission period, you can not eat beans and soy products, wheat and pasta products, as well as garlic, leeks, yams, eggs, cabbage, peanuts, melon seeds and other gas-producing foods. Because once eaten, the gas in the gastrointestinal tract increases, gastrointestinal dynamics is affected, can trigger the disease, and even aggravate the symptoms.