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There are many different conditions that can make it necessary for a baby to have a colostomy, some from birth, others develop a little later on. Whatever the cause, for parents it can be terrifying.

As a ostomy patient, I've come up with new and innovative ways to care for your ostomy. I explain those as well as offer a lowdown on Ostomy Care 101

An ostomy is a surgical opening that is created on the abdominal wall for waste products to move out of the body.

Find helpful blogs to help you cope with ulcerative colitis.

It took me two years to find a treatment regime that controlled my ulcerative colitis. There are many treatments out there but, since we are all different, the treatments all affect ulcerative colitis differently in each person.

This is a true story.

Exploring my life for topics to research and write about.

This painful condition put me in the hospital for almost a week, and I am not out of the woods yet.

Tips to help you manage your u/c daily.

The media claims it is a hoax, but why is it still floating on the World Wide Web? This type of animal cruelty needs to be stopped!

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.

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.

For women who suffer from rectal cancer, there is a risk for metastasis often resulting in the need for posterior pelvic exenteration surgery.

Two of my close family members suffered from inflammatory bowel diseases, so I have spent a lot of my time reading and writing about the conditions. I believe that information is one key to successful treatment.

This is a personal look at inflammation in the bowel. I tell the story of my diagnosis and how I've learned to live with it.

IBD is a difficult illness with which to deal. Consider a family who deals with multiple cases of IBD in the same household. A mother, and IBS patient herself, has offered practical insight.

Suffering from Crohn's or know someone who is? Find out more about what to expect if you are diagnosed with Crohn's. In this article we discuss treatment with a Crohn's patient.

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.

Some internal observations about turkey and parts therof.

An informative article about a disease that is wide spread but little known.

500,000 people in the United States has Crohn's Disease and my son is one of them.

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.

The fibrin glue is applied before the skin flap is sealed. It was also found to help reduce or eliminate some sever complications such as hematomas, seromas, or even death.

This topic is probably not "pretty" but hopefully it will be useful to someone out there who is on chemo and suffering from severe constipation.

It was flu season and symptoms were being diagnosed over the phone.

When born with an anorectal complication, newborns will require intensive treatment during the first few months of life.

At first glance, imperforated anus seems like a strange medical concoction of a name, but when you really pay attention, it starts to make sense. Imperforated, meaning "not perforated or opened" and anus, which we all know.

Further envision you were totally dependent upon others for your every need, your bowel and bladder issues, your nutrition, your total life is in their hands. Such is the life of the people who live in nursing homes around the country.

United Kingdom researchers developed a modified treatment to cure bowl cancer and eliminate or reduce the normal side effects common during chemotherapy. Modified Gene Direct Enzyme Therapy adds an extra gene.

Cancer of the colon or rectum usually grows slowly.

Diverticulitis can usually be prevented by following good dietary habits and drinking lots of water.

Garder Syndrome is a rare disorder, though when it occurs, it strikes several people within on family, and to them is not rare at all.

Get educated about the importance of colon screenings to ward off colon cancer.

It seems the policy of hospitals and health care facilities in Los Angeles, California is to 'dump' homeless patients on the streets. More than ten local hospitals are being investigated for the practice of homeless dumping.

Sex is the new fountain of youth

An overview of the cause and origin of diverticulitis in the aging population, including symptoms, treatment and dietary modifications.

What are ostomies? An ostomy is a surgically made opening that is used to rid the body of its wastes. An ostomy may be necessary because of a birth defect or because of an illness that has required the removal of an organ or parts of an organ.

Breast milk is not only the best way to feed your newborn or infant, this nourishing substance has the ability to heal and protect the body as well.

This is my humorous and snarky review of the movie Happy Feet, a family movie that really isn't for families. Besides being scary, it's graphically lazy and thoroughly unenjoyable.

The world has been duped. The majority of citizens are being oppressed by gay activists, with laws and lies. But what are the distinctives of gays, that warrant gay laws and support? There is only one - immorality.

With one out of every 5,000 newborns suffering from Hirschsprung's Disease, parental understanding of the newborn's symptoms, surgical options and life care plan will improve the child's colorectal health.

HD is a congenital or birth defect. Children are born without ganglion cells, which control the muscles of the colon that push food and digested waste through the large intestine. Treatment only available by surgery, including a pull-through procedure.

Warning: this is an unapologetic look at each astrological sign and for that I apologize. If you are easily offended, do not proceed. Everybody else, c'mon in and find out who you are - really.

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

A woman's story of her diagnosis and treatment of a 25 lb. tumor.