The causes of emaciation in colitis include gastrointestinal dysfunction, dysfunction of intestinal mucosal digestion and absorption, loss of nutrients due to diarrhea, insufficient food intake, and high body consumption.
Colitis can have persistent gastrointestinal dysfunction, intestinal mucosal congestion, edema, intestinal mucosal water and nutrient reabsorption dysfunction, resulting in wasting and malnutrition. Colitis is also often associated with diarrhea and vomiting, resulting in loss of nutrients from the food eaten, which cannot be absorbed, causing wasting.
If colitis is recurrent and affects digestion and absorption, eating may also be affected, and inadequate food intake is also a cause of wasting. Colitis part also has fever, abdominal pain, electrolyte disorders, fever caused by increased metabolism, there will also be a great consumption of the body, can cause rapid weight loss, wasting.
Colitis patients should promptly go to the hospital, under the guidance of the doctor.