Bowel disease

Vegetarian diet helps protect against common bowel disease A vegetarian diet can help to prevent diverticular disease—in which pouches (diverticula) in the intestinal wall become inflamed—one of the West’s most common bowel disorders. How herbs can help Doctors sometimes use a combination of herbs to soothe inflammation in the digestive tract. Aloe vera juice is often recommended, though it is not well studied in inflammatory bowel disease. Nutritional strategies You can modify the composition of your gut flora by optimising your diet and supplementing with high-quality probiotics, the ‘good’ bacteria. * Fish oil is anti-inflammatory The sulphate connection The Western diet contains an average of 16.6 mmol/day of sulphate compared with the 2.7 mmol/day consumed by the average rural African. Animal studies have shown that high levels of sulphated polysacc... Eating dirt Getting dirty to stay healthy is a foreign notion to many of us - and eating dirt to stay healthy even more so. While it may seem primitive, eating earth (geophagy) is a universal phenomenon even toda... Worms and dirt: medicine’s newest weapons The diagnosis of ‘inflammatory bowel disease’, or IBD, is among medicine’s many umbrella terms. It hovers over a range of inflammatory conditions of the bowel, although two in particular - ulcerative... Crohn's disease - The hidden triggers Viruses, bacteria or even drugs can be the hidden triggers of inflammatory bowel disease, and many other intestinal illnesses can be mistaken for it. ... Case study: Alternative therapies for IBD Despite having had ulcerative colitis for only 18 months, I have run a whole gamut of attempted cures and aids. I had my first severe attack a year ago and spent nearly two months in hospital. ... Case study: Ischaemia of the bowel. My mother had been very ill for two years wit stomach pain, diarrhoea and loss of appetite. She had numerous Barium meals and other unpleasant tests. During this time she was in and out of hospi ...

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30 Apr 2013 | Adverse Reactions (Caitlin Hubbard)

Back to the future

When Lynne’s mother was 24, her dentist unwisely extracted a tooth while she had the flu. Within days her neck had ballooned with a streptococcal infection and she was rushed to hospital. Lynne&... more »

8 Feb 2013 | Adverse Reactions (bshubbard)

They're not even wrong

There’s a breathtakingly ignorant comment that has done the rounds of late, and it goes like this: there are only two types of medicine, that which works and alternative medicine. ... more »

17 Jan 2013 | Adverse Reactions (bshubbard)

Miracles of the demi-gods

Medicine seems to divide itself between the miraculous interventions and the mundane. The latter is all the things medicine isn’t very good at: the nagging, chronic problems that are made... more »

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cellulitis infection (NOT cell...

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Do you have a lot of stress? The stress hormone cortisol can block testosterone. You could get an adrenal stress test done to rule this out. Zinc is needed for testosterone production. Being low... more »

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