Bowel obstruction

About 4,500 children may develop serious adverse effects involving life-threatening conditions, hospitalization, permanent disability, or death each year from vaccines ("Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System," n.d.). This a very high number of serious adverse effects per year. It is hard to understand that even with this number so high, discussion of the possible requirement of all children to have vaccines are in debate. Vaccines should not be required for children because the government…

and experienced frequent bowel movements. I attempted to drink water, but that did not even sit well on my stomach. With me not being able to hold anything in my stomach, my mom rushed me back to the hospital. Once again, my temperature was taken, but this time, it read “105̊ ”. My mom explained to the triage nurse how my symptoms differed from my previous visit. Once taken to the back, the doctors did not run any test yet again, they just assumed that it was Irritable Bowel Syndrome.…

Two years! Two years of hearing the word “no” and the phrase “you’re too young.” Two years I suffered in pain. Two years of countless doctors and tests. Two years of no answers. Even worse, was knowing everyone was second-guessing if I was actually in pain. This all ended in early 2016 when one doctor finally understood what was wrong. The same illusionary question every other doctor said “no” to. This is my endometriosis story. It was a beautiful day in 2014. Life was great. I was with all my…

This pain can be a mild aching to a sharp consistent pain. The pain that's felt in the muscles, tendons, and ligaments that are around the joints. Fibromyalgia can also effect the bowels and urinary organs. It also effects the brain (headaches, fatigue,…

Could Helminth Infection Treat Inflammatory Bowel Disease? Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is an umbrella term for a collection of complex diseases that cause inflammation in the mucosal layer of the intestine. The term comprises two main disease states: Ulcerative Colitis (UC) and Crohn’s Disease (CD).1 Symptoms of both include abdominal pain, diarrhea, bloody stools, anemia, dehydration and fever.2 Though these illnesses affect 1.4 million individuals in the United States and have been…

Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease. Patients can get this disease starting at a young all the way to when they are older. Crohn’s disease can affect any part of the digestive tract, it effects patients in different ways. Some of the symptoms that they can have is constant diarrhea…

intervention for the yoga group (n=9). Bowel symptoms, autonomic symptoms, autonomic reactivity (battery of five standard tests), surface electrogastrography, anxiety profile by Spielberger’s Self evaluation Questionnaire, which evaluated state and trait anxiety were investigated. At the start of the study- 0 month, 1 month and 2 months of receiving the intervention, at three regular intervals all the participants were tested. Significant decrease of bowel symtoms and state anxiety was seen in…

Introduction Sold commercially under the tradename Sevin, carbaryl (C12H11NO2) is an insecticide that is commonly applied to corn, soybean, and cotton (EPA, 2000). It is a cholinesterase inhibitor that kills insects by preventing the breakdown of acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter. Neurons are stimulated when they release acetylcholine and transmit a message to the next neuron (Waymire, n.d.). However, in order for a neuron to return to its initial, unstimulated state, the acetylcholine in its…

Problem Statement Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is one of the most common functional gastrointestinal (GI) disorders affecting more women than men under the age of 50 (Lindfors, Ljótsson, Bjornsson, Abrahamsson, & Simrén, 2013). El-Salhy and Gundersen (2015) defines IBS as intermittent left lower abdominal pain/discomfort, altered bowel habits and abdominal bloating/distention. Although IBS is not known to progress into a more serious disease or cause death, it can drastically reduce…

Irritable bowel is hard to manage, but is a big problem for some individuals. But is it true that irritable bowel is hard to manage? Are there easier ways to manage it? Although irritable bowel can be easy for some, it’s hard for others who have more severe cases of the syndrome. Thesis: I'm supposed to write an essay about how irritable bowel is hard to manage but that isn't always true, personally I have irritable bowel and it can be easier some days rather than others. what is IBS? Many…