Nonspecific ulcerative colitis treatment

Gastroenterological disease Nonspecific ulcerative colitis or NUC isdiffuse chronic inflammation with ulceration of the mucosa of the colon and rectum. This disease can begin at any age. But in most cases it occurs in young people (from twenty to forty years old). Although in medical practice, there are cases of the occurrence of the first attack of ulcerative colitis in infants and patients between the fiftieth and seventy years. But this is more an exception than the rule.

NUK is equally common in people of bothsex, although recently men have become sick more often (1.4: 1). Citizens among the sick are more than rural residents. In 90% of cases, nonspecific colitis is not limited to a single seizure and recurs throughout life.

To date, there is no unambiguousthe opinion of doctors about the cause of nonspecific colitis. One of the main factors in the onset of the disease is considered a hereditary predisposition. At relatives of the patient the probability of getting ulcerative colitis increases tenfold. And if both parents in their lives were treated from this ailment, the risk of colitis in a child by the age of twenty rises by half.

It is a chronic ailment that gives serious complications. Therefore, in most cases, patients who have been diagnosed with ulcerative colitis are treated in a hospital.

Symptoms of NNC

The clinical picture of the disease directly depends on the severity of the inflammatory process and its prevalence in the colon department.

The main symptoms of this disease are diarrheawith blood, purulent or mucous discharge on a background of high temperature, deterioration of overall health, apathy, weight loss. On average, the stool frequency ranges from four to six times a day (including nighttime). If the disease is started and it is hard, then in such cases, the liquid blood stool can be up to twenty times a day and night. The volume of excreted feces with diarrhea is small or absent altogether - only pus and blood are mixed, mixed with mucus.

In addition to the main symptoms, many patients complain of ulcerative colitis or relapse:

1. Fifty percent - on severe pain in the abdomen, proceeding in the form of fights and accompanied by cuts. Many note the false urge to empty the bowels and the feeling of incomplete purification.
2. Sixty percent of patientsSymptoms of the disease include extraintestinal signs: eye damage (conjunctivitis, iritis, iridocyclitis), joints, oral cavity, skin and other organs and systems. Often these lesions are harbingers of intestinal manifestations of the disease.

Complications:

• profuse bleeding (intestinal) from the anus;
• rupture of intestinal wall;
• fistula formation and abscess formation;
• narrowing of the intestinal lumen;
• the emergence and development of colorectal cancer.

Nonspecific ulcerative colitis. Home Treatment

Treatment of such a serious ailment rarely spend at home. This is practiced only with mild disease and requires the unqualified execution of all appointments of a doctor and compliance with a strict diet.

Nonspecific ulcerative colitis. Treatment in hospital

Hospitalization of patients with ulcerative symptomsColitis is desirable to be carried out in the departments of coloproctology or gastroenterology, where there is specialized equipment, through which it is possible to conduct X-ray and endoscopic examinations, perform histological and coprologic analyzes, and conduct a study of feces for bacteriological flora. In the hospital, based on the results of the research, the doctor will establish a diagnosis - ulcerative colitis, whose treatment can not begin without a detailed examination.

Treatment of this disease is carried out astherapeutically, and with the help of surgery. In eighty percent of cases, the improvement of the condition of patients comes as a result of taking antibiotics, immunomodulators and hormonal preparations, which are individually selected for each patient by a doctor.

Operative intervention is used in severecases of the course of the disease with complications - with bleeding, rupture or narrowing of the intestine, up to intestinal obstruction or development of cancer. Also, surgery, as the only method of treatment, is considered by doctors in the event that a patient develops a toxic form of colitis or a pseudopolyposis occurs.

Methods of modern medicine are very effective in the treatment of ulcerative colitis. With their help, most patients achieve complete and long-term remission.