Nonspecific ulcerative colitis treatment

Gastroenterological disease Nonspecific ulcerative colitis or NNC is a diffuse 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.

NNC is equally common in people of both sexes, although recently men have become sick more often (1.4: 1). Citizens are among the sick 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 unequivocal opinion of doctors about the cause of nonspecific colitis. One of the main factors of 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 were treated in their lives From this ailment, the risk of colitis in a child by the age of twenty rises by half.

This is a chronic ailment that gives serious complications. Therefore, in most cases, patients who have been diagnosed with nonspecific 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 diarrhea with blood, purulent or mucous discharge on the background of high fever, deterioration of overall health, apathy, weight loss. On average, the stool frequency ranges from four to six times during the day (including night time). 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 patients, in addition to the main symptoms of the disease, exhibit 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 unconditional fulfillment of all appointments of a doctor and compliance with a strict diet.

Nonspecific ulcerative colitis. Treatment in hospital  

Hospitalization of patients with symptoms of ulcerative colitis 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 be started without a detailed examination.

Treatment of this disease is carried out both therapeutically and through 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.

Surgical intervention is used in severe cases of the disease with complications - bleeding, rupture or narrowing of the bowel, up to intestinal obstruction or 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 full and long-term remission.