Crohn’ disease is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease characterized by inflammation of the digestive, or gastrointestinal tract. In fact, Crohn’s can affect any part of the gastrointestinal tract from the mouth to the anus, but it is more commonly found at the end of the small intestine called the ileum. The most common symptoms of Crohn’s diseases are diarrhea, cramping and pain in your abdomen, and weight loss. Your digestive system is made up of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract also…
other gastrointestinal diseases or conditions. Symptoms commonly includes, abdominal swelling, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, constipation and diarrhea. In more severe forms, symptoms also include cachexia, complete lack of bowel movement, chronic sharp abdominal pain, early fullness, aversion to food and weigh loss (NORD, 2012). A provider suspecting intestinal pseudo obstruction, will refer the patient to a gastroenterologist, a doctor who specializes in digestive diseases. Proper diagnosis…
money, and communicating with people who suffer from Crohn's Disease or Ulcerative Colitis. As an individual who suffers from Crohn's Disease since the age of nine, I want to do everything I possibly can in order to help find a cure for Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis. From grades seven to eleven, I raised money for Take Steps, Be Heard for Crohn's and Colitis. All the money went toward research to find a cure for Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis. In grade eleven, I managed to raise…
Chlamydia • Chlamydia trachomatis • Chlamydia trachomatis infection is the most common bacterial sexually transmitted diseases (STI) worldwide. • Chlamydia trachomatis is obligated intracellular pathogens causing a range of acute and chronic diseases in humans and animals. Sometimes it is asymptomatic infection, the person may not have any sign or symptoms of diseases. Chlamydia trachomatis is naturally a coccoid shaped bacteria which are diplococci arrangements. The researchers was used the…
Crohn’s Disease Symptoms – Is There a Way to Manage Them? Crohn’s disease symptoms vary from one patient to the next. Depending on how mild or severe the condition is, the signs could be anywhere from mere nausea to bleeding. There are extraintestinal manifestations which are rarely present. The disease can also affect different parts of the body such as the skin, liver, joints and the eyes. Kids can present delays in growth development. About a third of Crohn’s patients develop the perianal…
they're scared of knowing for sure that they have a sexually transmitted disease. They'd prefer to stay in the dark, but while there may have been a twisted logic to this some years ago when little could be done about sexually transmitted diseases, nowadays it makes no sense at all. Some STDs can be cured, and there are ways of managing the symptoms of others to ensure they're barely a hindrance any longer. In the case of the diseases that there are cures for, delaying over a test and treatment…
Cardiovascular disease risk factors include tobacco use, hypertension, high blood cholesterol, diabetes, obesity and inactivity. On the other hand, risk factors that increase cancer include genetic, sexually transmitted diseases, obesity, cigarettes, ultraviolet radiation, and age. To increase women’s awareness for cardiovascular risk factors and risk factors that increase…
after Albert Neisser who first isolated it in 1879 (Dixson,2015). The disease it caused Gonorrhea, is a term coined by second century Greek physician Galen stands for “as flow of seed”. It is the second most common sexually transmitted infection in the world (Unemo and Shafer, 2011) affecting 62 million individuals worldwide (PHAC, 2011). This bacterium can lead to complications such as Epidimytis in men, Pelvic inflammatory disease and tubal blockages which can lead to infertility in women…
sixth year of the hunt and I hope with time it gains more popularity. Even though we had a lot of fun, the main focus was to bring awareness to Inflammatory Breast Cancer, which is a very rare form of breast cancer that a lot of times go undetected because there are no real symptoms. A lot of women are initially told everything is fine because Inflammatory Breast Cancer does not show up on breast ultrasounds or mammograms. Being that I work in the imaging department at The Ohio State University…
also would not be plagued with the common genetic disease that the rest of the population would have to deal with. Also in Source A it states “Sooner or later, as the most glaring genetic liabilities will drift toward the bottom of the socioeconomic scale,” This evidence shows that as time goes by the genetic problems such as ADHD would only affect the people who are lower class. If the people of lower class are plagued with these genetic diseases that the rich aren 't’ then not only will the…