Even though gastroenterology and gastrointestinal mean similar things, they are not the same. Gastroenterology is a branch of medicine that focuses on the digest tract and its disorders. Gastrointestinal is the digestive tract as a whole.
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease focuses on your gastrointestinal tract and is caused by a faulty immune system. IBD is divided into two types: crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Crohn’s disease happens when your digestive tract lining is inflamed. Ulcerative colitis occurs when the lining of the colon has sores or is inflamed. You will notice Crohn’s when damaged areas begin to show up in patches next to healthy tissue. For ulcerative colitis it continues but it is not patchy. It begins at the rectum and then spreads to the colon.
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Over 70 million Americans suffer from digestive diseases each year whether it be Gas Reflux Disease or Inflammatory Bowel Syndrome (IBS). An unhealthy gut overall affects your whole body. A proper diet and exercise can help bring your gut back to health. When you have good bacteria in your gut it can help digest food, improve your mood, and improve your immune system function.
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Colonoscopy and Endoscopy might deal with issues in the same body area, but they both diagnose and look at different medical symptoms. A colonoscopy is a type of endoscopy where the lower part of the digestive tract (rectum, colon) is observed. Endoscopy is when the doctor performs a nonsurgical procedure to look at the upper digestive tract (esophagus, stomach or duodenum).
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A mild case of hemorrhoids may just be an annoyance you choose to live with, but when the itching, burning, and bleeding start to disrupt your life, it’s time to get professional help.
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Millions of people in the United States have viral hepatitis and many may not even know it, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Depending on the cause, hepatitis symptoms may not occur until you’ve developed serious liver damage.
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Alcohol is a major part of the social landscape for young adults. Unfortunately, many young people drink too much, and it’s starting to lead to serious health issues, especially for millennials, those born between 1980 and 1994.
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Your pancreas plays a vital role in helping turn the food you eat into energy. It produces and secretes the enzymes your digestive system uses to break down food for absorption, as well as the hormone insulin that helps transport glucose (energy) from your blood into your cells.
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Some of the most common digestive symptoms reported included diarrhea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. The May 2020 study found that those patients experiencing digestive symptoms also had increased liver enzyme levels.
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For some people, it’s easy to spot blood in the stool. You may see bright red drops of blood in the toilet bowl after a bowel movement or notice a smear of blood on the toilet paper after you wipe.
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Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), like Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, is a chronic gastrointestinal condition that can be unpredictable. With symptoms including diarrhea and crippling abdominal pain, you may be struggling to figure out how to manage your IBD.
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Your liver is one of the largest organs in your body, weighing in at three pounds. Its primary jobs are to filter and process the blood that comes from your digestive system, store energy, and make specialized proteins.
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Though both conditions are chronic and affect quality of life, there are marked differences between IBS and IBD, and you can’t determine which condition you have based on your symptoms alone.
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Hepatitis is a catchall term for viral infections that cause inflammation in your liver. Among the more common forms of viral hepatitis are A, B, and C, and the far less common E. While the distinctions made here are only letters, these forms of the viral infection differ in terms of transmission, symptoms, and longevity.
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Though alcoholism is one of the most common causes of liver disease, excessive use of alcohol also increases your risk of pancreatitis.
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With symptoms that may include abdominal pain, bloating, and bowel habits that fluctuate between diarrhea and constipation, finding the right treatment for your irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) isn’t easy.
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