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For patients with gastrointestinal complications, understanding the subtype classification of Ulcerative colitis is important to obtaining treatment and recovery.
This is an overview of the FDA approved drug used to treat Ulcerative Colitis.
How to support your teen with Ulcerative Colitis.
How kids can survive with Ulcerative Colitis.
Living with Ulcerative Colitis while you're in college can be challenging. You have to consider if and how you're going to approach your professors, how you're going to talk to your roommates and how it might affect your schoolwork and grades.
College life is difficult but, ulcerative colitis makes it even more difficult.
Have you ever contemplated revealing an embarrassing secret to a friend? If you have, then you know how kids with ulcerative colitis feel on a daily basis when trying to forge friendships. So what can you do to help?
Sports are always difficult for kids with ulcerative colitis. As a parent, you can help your child cope with this disease and pursue the sports that interest them most.
Ulcerative Colitis, even in mild cases, changes a family's lifestyle, at least to some degree. Diet, regular schedules and, the awareness of possible flare-ups all keep the family hyper-aware that the illness exists.
This article discusses affects ulcerative colitis has on work performance and discusses some strategies that can help, given understanding in your community. These strategies will affect your selection of employer, friends and doctors and reduce your stress.
I do have a mild case of Ulcerative Colitis, so I don't have special needs as far as bowel maintenance; however, sometimes just getting through the day can be difficult.
Keeping a job is just as difficult as getting a job when you have a disease like Ulcerative Colitis.
Ulcerative Colitis struck our middle son when he was seven months old. Interestingly, even though I had a mild case myself, since his symptoms were not stereotypical; I didn't dream Ulcerative Colitis was what he was suffering from.
Learning to educate your child, and yourself, about Ulcerative Colitis and coping with it as a family.
Being a mother of two active boys can be difficult when having colitis.
I was first diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis in August of 2001. I remember I had gone to see the gastroenterologist with my mom when I first got the news. I sat there and a million thoughts raced through my head. How was I going to deal with this?
This article describes how open communication in a family, especially between married couples, helps ease stressful contributors to ulcerative colitis flare-ups. It discusses the effects of income, medical care, diet, exercise and sex.
Growing up with a parent that suffers from ulcerative colitis can be a challenge. That challenge is made even more difficult if you are unaware of your parent's diagnosis.
Ulcerative colitis can cause an emotional strain for a teen dealing with this condition while attending school.
This story is about my aunt's battle with ulcerative colitis. It is not intended to be a descriptive article or substitute any medical advice.
To this day, from my teens to my thirties, I have been battling ulcerative colitis. I'm still on anti-inflammatory drugs, and I still relish my times of remission.
Ulcerative Colitis and Other Inflammatory Bowel Diseases that effect millions of people.
Ulcerative Colitis is an inflammatory bowel disease commonly referred to by doctors as IBD. The causes of Ulcerative Colitis are still unclear, however many doctors and scientist believe that stress is the main cause.
UC is an abbreviation for ulcerative colitis. It is a debilitating disease with no cure. It is one of the most embarrassing diseases that one can have.
For patients who suffer from ulcerative colitis, the use of Rowasa Suspension Enemas is quite common.
Read this article to determine if you just have a 24 hour stomach 'bug', or something more, like Colitis or Ulcerative Colitis
Ulcerative colitis is an unbearable and life changing disease. Read on to see how it affect a young mother's life and how she beat it by doing the obvious.
This article is about my personal experience with colitis.
This article describes my personal experience with chronic pelvic problems with symptoms of colitis, internal inflammation, pain, and menstrual difficulties helps explain the problems with diagnosis and provides some key lessons about how to manage these difficulties.
Showing up at a wedding without a gift is embarrassing, but it's nothing compared to the social stigma created by ulcerative colitis or any other form of inflammatory bowel disease. Following is the account of my struggle with this illness.
Ulcerative colitis is more or less a common condition that may affect everyone, so it is very important to get some knowledge about it.
An article that discusses the turning events of one man and the hardships he has endured from being diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis and how he deals with this disease to this day.
This is my story about being diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis and how it changed my life.
My story of being diagnosed with colitis, and how I have found ways to live with it.
Colitis patients often have multiple nutrient deficiencies. Taking a daily multi-vitamin could prevent complications of long-term nutritional deficiencies. Research displays potentially fatal effects caused by colitis-induced nutritional deficiencies.
With antibiotic use, your infection will most likely resolve. However, antibiotic use can also lead to secondary health complications, including colitis.
Ulcerative Colitis is a painful and, often, embarrassing auto-immune disease. Learn more about ulcerative colitis and why friends and relatives with this condition need your support and understanding.
My battle against a digestive disorder called ulcerative colitis, and how it taught me to listen to my body.
Troy A. McManus, a supply Sergeant with the 82nd Airborne's 3-4 Air Defense Artillery Regiment, is now training for a charity bike ride across North Carolina to raise money for the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America.
Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are separate inflammatory bowel diseases, but are generally grouped together and similarly treated because of their similar symptoms.
A firsthand account of symptoms, testing, diagnosis and treatment for ulcerative colitis.
Ulcerative colitis is a chronic inflammation of the large intestine. The colon, the large intestine, is a part of the digestive system where the body wastes materials is then stored.
Ulcerative Colitis is an inflammatory bowel disease that causes inflammation and ulcers in the colon and the lining of the rectum.
Colitis is a serious disease.
Chronic disease can create an open doorway for depression, fear and anxiety. Most doctors who specialize in the care of people with ulcerative colitis recommend counseling or participation in an ulcerative colitis support group.
Ulcerative colitis surgery is the last and most invasive method of controlling ulcerative colitis, and may not actually cure the patient of the disease, though it will certain alleviate the symptoms.
Ulcerative colitis is one of the many types of inflammatory bowel disease.
Water can treat and even cure allergies, angina, arthritis, asthma, back pain, colitis, constipation, dyspepsia, fatigue, fibromyalgia, headaches, heartburn, hypertension, lupus, mood swings and morning sickness.
Little did i know the catastrophic cascade of events that were to befall me when in the fall of 1970 my first symptoms of devastating ulcerative colitis was to appear.Ulcerative colitis like crohn's disease is IBD