Inflammatory Bowel DiseaseCategory: Conditions
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Understanding IBD. What is inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)? The term inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a category of gastrointestinal illnesses...
Hiatus Hernia
The hiatus hernia is one of the more misunderstood and maligned conditions in medicine. People blame this hernia for much...
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Medically, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is known by a variety of other terms: spastic colon, spastic colitis, mucous colitis and...
Lactose Intolerance
Lactose intolerance develops when the body has difficulty digesting whole and skim milk and other dairy products. Lactose is a...
Ostomy, Colostomy, Ileostomy
These three words and the images they convey produce dread in many people who may know very little about them. An...
Pancreas Disease
The pancreas is called the “hidden organ” because it is located deep in the abdomen behind the stomach. About six...
Peptic Ulcer Disease
Peptic ulcer disease (PUD) is a common ailment, affecting many people. The causes of PUD have gradually become clear. With this...
Prevention of Colon Polyps and Cancer
The colon is the large intestine. It begins where the small intestine ends, near the appendix inside the right lower...
Primary Biliary Cholangitis
The liver is the largest organ in the body. It is found high in the right upper abdomen, behind the...
Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC)
The liver is the largest organ in the body. It is found high in the right upper abdomen, behind the...
Rectal Bleeding
Rectal bleeding is a sign that something is wrong. It is usually something minor that can be easily diagnosed, but...
Ulcerative Colitis
Ulcerative colitis is a chronic, recurring disease of the large bowel. The large bowel (colon) is the 5-to-6-foot segment of...
Hemorrhoids
Hemorrhoids, or piles, are one of mankind’s most common and nagging disorders. By themselves, hemorrhoids are rarely serious, but they...
Heartburn and Reflux
Everyone has heartburn occasionally. This occurs when stomach acid flows upward (regurgitates) into the esophagus. The esophagus is the tube...
Hepatitis C
The liver is the largest organ in the body. It is found high in the right upper abdomen, behind the...
Hepatitis B
The liver is the largest organ in the body. It is found high in the right upper abdomen, behind the...
Hepatitis
The liver is the largest organ in the body. It sits in the right-upper abdomen just under the right lung...
Hemochromatosis
The liver is the largest organ in the body. It is found high in the right upper abdomen, behind the...
Helicobacter Pylori
This unusual name identifies a specific bacterium that can cause infection of the stomach. This infection can contribute to the...
Gastro Esophageal Reflux Disease
Almost everyone has experienced heartburn. About 25 million American adults suffer daily from (esophageal reflux, sometimes referred to as gastroesophageal...
Cirrhosis
The liver is a large organ that sits in the right upper abdomen, just under the right lung. It is...
Colon Polyps and Cancer
Cancer of the colon is a major health problem in the United States. It ranks as a leading form of...
Constipation
Constipation can be defined as infrequent or hard pellet stools, or difficulty in evacuating stool. Passing one or more soft,...
Crohn’s Disease
Crohn’s disease is a chronic, recurrent inflammatory disease of the intestinal tract. The intestinal tract has four major parts: the...
Diarrhea
Everyone has diarrhea at one time or another and everyone has their own idea of exactly what diarrhea is. Is...
Diverticulosis & Diverticulitis
To understand diverticulosis, it is helpful to know about the anatomy and function of the intestine. The small intestine is...
Eosinophilic Esophagitis
Eosinophilic Esophagitis is a mouthful of a word. It is a condition that we are seeing more and more frequently....
Esophagitis and Stricture
The esophagus is the food tube, or gullet, that carries food and liquid from the mouth to the stomach. The...
Fatty Liver
The liver is the largest organ in the body. It is found high in the right upper abdomen, behind the...
Gallstones
To understand the nature of gallstones, it is helpful to first look at the anatomy of the gallbladder and bile...
Gas
Everyone comments sometimes on the digestive problem of gas. When people complain of gas, they usually mean one or more...
Gastritis
The stomach, as everyone knows from watching TV ads, is J-shaped and collects swallowed food and liquid. It then methodically...
Gastroparesis
This tough looking word, pronounced gas-tro-par-EES-is, is simple enough in its meaning. Gastro means stomach. Paresis means weakness. Gastroparesis is...
Osteoporosis
Calcium is essential to the body. It is the most common mineral in the body and is needed in tiny...
Celiac Disease
Celiac Disease (CD) is a disease of the lining of the small intestine. This part of the bowel lies between...
Barrett’s Esophagus
Heartburn is a burning sensation felt behind the breastbone and sometimes in the neck and throat. It is caused by...
Autoimmune Hepatitis
The liver is the largest organ in the body. It is found high in the right upper abdomen, behind the...
Anal Fissure, Abscess and Fistula
The intestinal tract (or bowel) ends with the rectum. The last part of the rectum is a section about 1...