”] According to statistics from the National Institutes of Health, 75% of Americans will have hemorrhoids in their lifetime, and 50% will experience hemorrhoids before age 50. Hemorrhoids most commonly occur in
Children who are dehydrated are children in danger. While dehydration is not good for anyone, due to pediatric anatomy, it works particularly quickly on children, who do not have the sorts of bodily reserves that adults use to cushion themselves against things like dehydration, heatstroke, hypothe...
This procedure can be recommended: if signs and symptoms suggest that one can have another digestive system disease, if there are risk factors for colorectal cancer, if one is older than the age of 50 and haven't had a recent colonoscopy.Expert...
Three-quarters of American adults suffer from hemorrhoids at some point, says the National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse, with most cases happening between the ages of 45 to 65 for those of both sexes or during pregnancy in women. Certain activities make this painful problem worse, e...
the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and other groups now recommend colonoscopy for all patients older than age 40 years with GI bleeding, even in their family histories for colorectal cancer are negative and they lack other high-risk factors. For those younger than age 40 years,...