The lowly ameba so familiar to high school students in biology has a famous cousin, technically known as the ameba histolytica. This microscopic animal is the cause of amebic dysentery, one of the diseases dreaded by folks who live or travel in the jungle. To anyone acquainted with the tropics and of the difficulties and [...]
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Skin Diseases, Liver Spots and Colitis
Liver spots are light brown patches of irregular shape and size which usually appear on the skin of the face, on the cheeks, and over the bridge of the nose, though they may occur anywhere else on the body. Their occurrence has traditionally, though without scientific basis of fact, been associated with disorders of the [...]
So You’re Psychosomatic! (Nervous Breakdown and Colitis)
A time there was when many of the hidden ailments of the colon were considered merely the “vapors” or vagaries of the mind. People who were prone to be sensitive were observed also to be prone to vague abdominal distress. The logical deduction seemed to be that since this distress was due to their sensitive [...]
Bladder Cystitis Trouble, “Weak Kidneys” and Colitis
An ailment, cystitis, distressingly frequent among women, has as its chief symptom a markedly increased desire to urinate frequently. This act is attended with much distress and often with a sharp or burning painful sensation. Not infrequently the condition of bladder cystitis costs the patient a good night’s sleep because of the frequency with which [...]
Female Genital Complaints and Colitis Disease
No one female organ, certainly none as large and important as the colon, can suffer serious disorder without creating a shower of reflex effects upon those organs which come into relation with it in the same nerve channel. For this reason the female genital organs are particularly prone to disturbance when an extensive colitis exists.
Irregularities [...]
Catarrhal Colitis With Spasm
Elsewhere in this blog, I have made the statement that the most dangerous stage in the course of the disease known as colitis is when the patient feels well. This may sound paradoxical but it is nevertheless true. It is true for the reason that this is the very time that the patient feels that [...]
Intestinal Worms – My! What A Wormy World This Is!
Intestinal worms, is one of the simplest forms of colitis to deal with but the one most frequently overlooked. If you have any of the related worms symptoms mentioned below in this post lose no time in having your doctor make the necessary laboratory examinations or take my advice for the recommended at home parasite [...]
Colitis in Elderly People
After the meridian of life has been passed there is quite naturally a lessening in the activity both of the glands and the tissues of the body. What is more important is the fact that these glands become markedly less efficient. Their function is to digest what has been placed in the food digestion tract [...]
Colitis in Children – Celiac Disease – Celiac Disease Diet
This post is a close subject that tugs on my heart, “colitis children”. Dedicated to the parents and their suffering child.
Strange as it may seem, newborn babies may have colitis. It is, of course, a matter of common knowledge that during the period of infancy the food digestion canal, and particularly the intestines, are very [...]
