Inflammatory bowel disease

Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) generally refers to an infection of a female’s reproductive organs. “It usually occurs when sexually transmitted bacteria spread from your vagina to your uterus, fallopian tubes or ovaries” (“Pelvic Inflammatory,” n.d.). Douching regularly can also cause PID and disrupts the balance of natural bacteria that women have in their body. Inflammation can cause irreversible damage causing scar tissue formation and may even prevent conception in women with this disease…

Over the years, chlamydial infections prevalence has risen. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed reports from the year 1987 to 2006 and the rate has risen from 50.8 to 347.8 per 100,000 people (Sommers, 2011). That is nearly a six hundred percent increase! It is important to remember that this does not account for those who are infected but are unaware because of the common asymptomatic nature of the disease. There are about 92 million reported cases of the infection…

show evidence of symptoms or if they do, they would be mild, and sometimes when complications associated with the disease appear, they can occur without exposing the root cause. Chlamydia is acknowledged such as agent that causes infertility (Batool Hossein Rashidi B, et al., 2012). History of the disease: Chlamydia is one of the most common sexually transmitted disease…

Pelvic Inflammatory Disease is one of the most common infections in non-pregnant women of reproductive age, remains an important public health problem. It is associated with major long-term sequelae, including tubal factor infertility, ectopic pregnancy, and chronic pelvic pain. In addition, treatment of acute PID and its complications incurs substantial health care costs. Prevention of these long-term sequelae is dependent upon development of treatment strategies based on knowledge of the…

THE INCREASED BIOPOLITICAL CONTROL OF WOMEN’S BODIES THROUGH REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE REGULATION; AN INTERSECTIONAL ANALYSIS. Recently proposed laws that enact abortion and reproductive health care regulation have been marked as safety precautions in order to protect the health of women. However, these laws do not consider which groups are most often impacted by their enactment, and what the consequences of said enactment may be. If clinics in low income neighborhoods cannot meet…

Bethel University History of Present Illness On 8/3/2015 a 45 year old African American male presented to the ER with a chief compliant of diffuse abdominal pain and trouble having a bowel movement. The patient stated that he was experiencing rectal pain with bloody stools. He also complained of feeling his bowels pulling. The patient stated that he has lost roughly 40 pounds in the past month without trying to lose weight. He stated that this has been going on for 2 months now and he has…

The field of medicine is constantly evolving as new research is conducted daily. As a healthcare provider it can be easy to manage patients “the way it has always been done” since that is still often an effective treatment method. However, just because a method of treatment has been known for a longer period of time, that does not mean it is the only treatment option still, or even the best treatment method. It’s important to stay up to date on current research that can provide options to the…

Etiology & Incidence: In the US, the third most common gastrointestinal illness requiring hospitalization and the leading indication for elective colon resection is diverticulitis. Of the people who have diverticulosis, 4-15% of the patients will develop diverticulitis, and increasing with age. An older belief was diverticulitis was caused by an obstruction of the diverticula (fecaliths), current belief is it is related to pressure or inspissated particles in the lumen. Other things believed to…

Gastrointestinal disorders (GI) refers to diseases that involve the gastrointestinal tract. This is made up of the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine and the rectum. There are a variety of different GI disorders but the most common are: Gastroeophagel Reflux Disease (GERD), Inflammatory Bowel Disorder (IBD) and Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders (FGIDs). Functional gastrointestinal disorders are common disorders that can be seen in any segment of gastrointestinal tract.…

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a communal disorder that disturbs the large intestine in 5-20% of adults. With this gastrointestinal disorder, it would commonly give a person abdominal pain, bloating, cramps, constipation, diarrhea, and gas. Irritable bowel syndrome is classified into four different categories which are IBS with constipation (IBS-C), IBS with diarrhea (IBS-D), mixes IBS (IBS-M), and un-subtype IBS (IBS-U) (Bethesda, 2013). There are patients that have reported discontinuous…