Colitis

POWs during WWII During World War II there were hundreds of POW camps that were located across the United States, Asia, and Europe. POW camps were camps that held prisoners of war. These POW camps were supposed to follow the international laws of the Geneva Convention, but a lot of the time the camp officials did not follow these regulations. Laura Hillenbrand’s biography Unbroken, describes the life of Louis Zamperini who was an American POW that was captured and lived in several Japanese POW…

“77 percent of new mothers are breast-feeding their babies,” according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention’s 2013 Breast Feeding Report Card (Castillo). The National Conference of State Legislatures’ article “Breastfeeding State Laws” describes, “As a part of the Healthy People 2020 initiative, the national goal is to increase the proportion of mothers who breastfeed their babies in the early postpartum period to 81.9 percent by the year 2020.” Many mothers are hesitant to…

Introduction The human body is populated by a large aggregate of microbes on the skin as well as many mucosal surfaces. They are composed of mainly bacteria, fungi, and protozoa. These commensal microorganisms live in the human body in symbiosis. Microbiota play a functional role in the health and disease of an individual. Roughly there are around 1012 bacteria found on the skin, primarily staphylococci and corynebacteria, and 1010 found in the mouth, primarily, streptococci, lactobacilli.1 But…

Medical Uses The effects that anticholinergic drugs have on your mind are secondary to the myriad of medical problems that they treat. These medicines can be purchased over the counter or prescribed to treat the following conditions: Gastritis Colitis Nausea Vomiting…

A mass is a lump that either your caregiver found during an examination or you found before seeing your caregiver. The colon is a major part of the large intestine. There are many possible reasons why a lump has appeared. Testing will help determine the cause and the steps to a solution. CAUSES Before complete testing is done, it may be difficult or impossible for your caregiver to know if the lump is truly in the colon or comes from one of the organs that are next to the colon. Problems in…

MYCOCEPT (Mycophenolate mofetil) is the 2-morholinoethyl ester of mycophenolic acid (MPA). CHEMICAL NAME: 2-morpholin-4-ylethyl (E)-6- (4-hydroxy-6-methoxy-7-methyl-3-oxo-1H-2-benzofuran-5-yl)-4-methylhex-4 enoate. STRUCTURAL FORMULA: Fig: Mycophenolate mofetil MOLECULAR WEIGHT: 433.50g/mol APPEARANCE: Mycophenolate mofetil, is a white to off-white crystalline powder. SOLUBILITY: It is slightly…

vessels of the GI tract. Weight effects the PK properties of Infliximab. There is a positive correlation between the weight of the patient and the total CL and total Vd. Based on the fact that V1 and CL of Infliximab was higher in male ulcerative colitis patients than in female patients (Fasanmade, 2009), it can be assumed that the sex of CD patients would also influence the PK properties of Infliximab. However, further research is necessary to confirm this. Age is not a factor that effects the…

Chlamydia Chlamydia is the most commonly reported bacterial sexually transmitted disease (STD) in the United States and a leading cause of infertility in women. It is most prevalent in sexually active younger population less than age twenty-four. In 2015, a total of 1,526,658 chlamydial infections were reported to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in fifty states and the District of Columbia. This case count corresponds to a rate of 478.8 cases per 100,000 population (CDC, 2016).…

alleviating human. Probiotics have been shown to be effective or possibly effective in preventing pediatric antibiotic-associated diarrhea, Todate, probiotics, such as L. acidophilus, have not been shown to be effective against bacterial ulcerative colitis, Crohn’sdisease. Fecal transplantation is a special form of probiotic therapy in which a healthy donor’s fecal microbiota in its entirety (i.e., processed stool) is transplanted into the intestine of a patient suffering with one of various…

As a child, I would always wonder that why out of a large number of people who get sick, some get cured permanently while others remain diseased until ultimately engulfed by it. Whenever I was given those bitter polio drops my little brain would ask a multitude of questions, the answer to which remained undisclosed for a decade. I would always see that person on the way to market with hundreds of “PHORAS” on his body. Some will say he is cursed and some say it’s because of his misdeeds until I…