There is evidence that treating bowel inflammation ( which can result in things like crohn 's disease and ulcerative colitis ) with bacteria such as lactococcus lactis and lactobacillus casei helps ease symptoms .
Patients seem to like this kind of thing : one patient who suffers from ulcerative colitis , for example , has created a forum for fellow sufferers that can be accessed through an iphone application .
Inflammatory bowel disease ( ibd ) , which affects as many as 1 million americans , refers to two chronic diseases that cause inflammation of the intestines : crohn 's disease and ulcerative colitis .
影响着一百万多美国人的炎症性肠病,是指能引起肠部炎症的两种慢性病:克罗恩氏病和溃疡性结肠炎。
Italians can also tell you if the pain is in their stomach or intestine - and can even specify whether it is colic or colitis - but to us it is all just " tummy ache " .
意大利人还能告诉你他是胃疼还是肠子疼甚至能区分腹绞痛和结肠炎但我们把这些统统叫做“肚子疼”。
The ubiquity of clock genes in the body has led to a burgeoning field of research focused on how disruptions in circadian rhythm may contribute to disease , and whether normalizing circadian rhythm within cells could help prevent or treat conditions including colitis , diabetes and obesity .
Symposium speakers discussed how knowledge of host-microbe interactions might be exploited to develop new treatments for intractable infections , malnutrition , metabolic disorders such as type ii diabetes and obesity , and inflammatory disorders such as colitis and crohn 's disease .
But when given a solution that induced colitis symptoms , mice whose sleep cycle had been shifted fared far worse , losing 25 % of their body weight ; mice on a normal circadian routine lost only about 10 % of body weight .
Flexible sigmoidoscopy is often done as part of a routine screening for cancer for patients over 50 years old , before some surgeries , or to evaluate the causes of symptoms ( such as diarrhea , bleeding , colitis , changes in bowel habits and , changes in stool form or color ) .
Saturated milk fat , a common ingredient of many processed foods , can trigger the production of harmful bacteria that disrupt the intestinal environment , resulting in colitis and other inflammatory bowel diseases in genetically susceptible individuals , according to a report in the journal nature .