Heart Disease and Colitis – The Heart Disease Risk How on earth can colitis cause heart disease? Well, your amazement at this question is just as great as mine was when I first discovered that one of my patients, who had for some time past thought that he was...
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.
Stomach Ulcer and Colitis
Stomach Ulcer and Colitis – Is It More Than a Stomach Ulcer? More than one person suffering from colitis has in the course of their quest for successful treatment gone from one doctor to another. In this process, they have learned the truth of the old adage that doctors...
Liver Disease And Colitis
Liver and Gall Bladder Disease and Colitis – Liver Disease If you will recall in one of the first lessons in how to control a crazy colon I pointed out that the food digestion canal was a hollow tube that passed through our anatomy in a peculiarly intimate manner....
Colitis Eye Problems
Eye Diseases and Colitis Eye Problems “Windows of the soul,” the poet said of the eyes. With this observation we have no quarrel, but from a more practical standpoint, doctors have found the eye an extremely important weather-vane for the detection of disturbances elsewhere in the body. Prominent among...
Amebic Dysentery Colitis Infection
Jungle Disease and Colitis Infection Amebic Dysentery The lowly ameba so familiar to high school students in biology has a famous cousin, technically known as the ameba histolytica. This microscopic animal is the cause of amebic dysentery, one of the diseases dreaded by folks who live or travel in...
Skin Diseases Colitis Skin Problems
Skin Diseases and Colitis “Liver spots” are light brown patches of irregular shape and size which usually appear on the skin of the face, on the cheeks, and over the bridge of the nose, though they may occur anywhere else on the body. Their occurrence has traditionally, though without...
Cystitis Colitis Bladder Infection
Bladder Trouble, “Weak Kidneys” and Colitis – Cystitis Colitis Bladder Infection An ailment, distressingly frequent among women, has as its chief symptom a markedly increased desire to urinate. This act is attended with much distress and often with a sharp or burning painful sensation. Not infrequently the condition costs...
Colitis Menstruation Complaints
Colitis Menstruation – Female Complaints and Colitis No one organ, certainly none as large and important as the colon, can suffer serious disorder without creating a shower of reflex effects upon those organs which come into relation with it in the same nerve channel. For this reason the female...
Colitis in Elderly People
Colitis in Elderly People After the meridian of life has been passed there is quite naturally a lessening in the activity both of the glands and the tissues of the body. What is more important is the fact that these glands become markedly less efficient. Their function is to...
Colitis in Children
Colitis in Children Strange as it may seem, newborn babies may have colitis. It is, of course, a matter of common knowledge that during the period of infancy the food digestion canal, and particularly the intestines, are very apt to become disordered. Whenever diarrhea is noted at birth or...