By Susan Rand The cleansing of the colon using copious amounts of water was a common procedure in the era 1930-1950s. The first instance was recorded in 1500 B.C., in the Ebers Papyrus, a medical instruction book. In the fourth and fifth centuries B.C., colon hydrotherapy was used to treat fever, and Galen in the [...]
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BALTIMORE — A painful condition of the bowel can create small pouches that become inflamed — but some people have them without problems. Diverticulitis is the condition in which the small pouches occur, and when they become inflamed, you’ll know it, reported WBAL-TV in Baltimore. Dr. Jonathan Schreiber, a gastroenterologist at Baltimore’s Mercy Medical Center, said people [...]
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Hypnotherapy, antidepressants and other mind-centered treatments could help people battling severe irritable bowel syndrome, a British survey of the literature finds. Such treatments are effective because “people who have irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) don’t necessarily have a clinical disorder in terms of psychology but have certain behavior patterns that make them vulnerable to symptoms,” explained [...]
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MONDAY, July 30 (HealthDay News) — People whose blood relatives have the joint disease ankylosing spondylitis (AS) are at increased risk not just for AS, but for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) as well, an Icelandic study shows. Looking at data from six generations of Icelanders, the researchers discovered a familial link between IBD and AS, [...]
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Higher rates of obesity may be to blame for inflamed colon condition More young city dwellers in the United States have acute diverticulitis than previously believed, says a University of Maryland study, and higher rates of obesity may be to blame. The study included 100 patients with acute diverticulitis, which occurs when pouches called diverticula [...]
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