(a) What is hemochromatosis? (b) What are its manifestations? (c) How is the condition diagnosed and treated? What is a gastroenterologist? What is the distinction between IBS and IBD? Describe the condition of chronic diarrhea. What causes it and how can it be treated? How do you differ...
Traditionally, conditions such as SIBO were diagnosed through culturing a liquid biopsy of the small intestine, gained through an endoscopic procedure. This is invasive, expensive, and has many downsides that limit its validity as a test. An alternative, and in many ways a preferable method of ...
Finally I got the right medical attention and saw a gastrointestinal doctor. He scheduled an emergency endoscopy (upper GI exam) and diagnosed me with gastritis. He explained to me that the only way to heal the inflammation was to put me on three months of PPIs, or 40 mg of Nexium per ...
This was successfully treated with a 2-week triple therapy consisting of lansoprazole, clarithromycin and metronidazole with persistent endoscopic and histological remission. This is a rare case of H . heilmannii -associated acute gastric mucosal lesions, diagnosed by morphology using touch cytology and...
gut immune response and more recently an imbalancedgut microbiome. It is this last factor where the two overlap, with SIBO being one possible manifestation of microbiome imbalance. While the SIBO/IBS picture is not clear yet the latestresearchpoints to SIBO being one part of the larger IBS ...
Your stomach is a muscular organ on the left side of your upper abdomen. Photo Credit: WebMD. Most of the time, stomach cramps aren’t serious and don’t need to be diagnosed. If they happen often, are severe, or last for more than a day, this could be a sign of a more harmful...
The ENS is embedded within the gut wall and provides local control of gastrointestinal functions through intrinsic neurocircuitry and integration with multiple cell types in the gastrointestinal tract and other organs.2 The ENS is composed of neurons and glia with generally well-known electrophysiological...
To use an analogy, the genome is like a piano; the epigenome is like the sheet music, and the exposome is what determines how the music is written and performed. The quality of the piano will certainly affect the sound that it produces. But the finest piano in the world will still soun...
It is most prevalent in the US, where there are 300,000 cases a year. But confirmed cases in the UK tripled between 2003 and 2015; about 65,000 instances are now diagnosed in Europe every year. And still scientists don’t yet fully understand the ins and outs of the bacteria. ...
Empirical diets can have their problems. While the typical IC diet allows milk for instance, you may have a problem with it and not know it. Patrick is a newly diagnosed IC patient but has had various food and pollen allergies for many years. He is allergic to dairy products and the sli...