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Connor Owensalmost 4 years ago
How do you classify severely acute presentations of colitis?
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almost 4 years ago
Ulcerative colitis, a type of inflammatory bowel disease presents with abdominal pain, diarrhea, weight loss, fever, blood in stools and malaise. It is a recurrent disease. It has periods of symptom free time and then severe episode with signs. Due to these recurrent episodes nature, can lead to multiple serious complications. When a patient presents with an episode, severity criteria called True love and Witt’s criteria. These criteria include: 1) stools with blood more than 6 per day, 2) history of fever for 2 to 4 days, 3) hemoglobin less than 10.5mg/dl, 4) ESR value more then 30, 5) pulse rate more then 90/min and 6) colon dilated more than 5.5cm.
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Ulcerative colitis is a long-term condition where Symptoms of ulcerative colitis
The main symptoms of ulcerative colitis are:
recurring diarrhoea, which may contain blood, mucus or pus
tummy pain
needing to empty your bowels frequently
You may also experience extreme tiredness (fatigue), loss of appetite and weight loss.
The severity of the symptoms varies, depending on how much of the rectum and colon is inflamed and how severe the inflammation is.
For some people, the condition has a significant impact on their everyday lives.
Symptoms of a flare-up
Some people may go for weeks or months with very mild symptoms, or none at all (remission), followed by periods where the symptoms are particularly troublesome (flare-ups or relapses).
During a flare-up, some people with ulcerative colitis also experience symptoms elsewhere in their body.
For example, some people develop:
painful and swollen joints (arthritis)
mouth ulcers
areas of painful, red and swollen skin
irritated and red eyes
In severe cases, defined as having to empty your bowels 6 or more times a day, additional symptoms may include:
shortness of breath
a fast or irregular heartbeat
a high temperature (fever)
blood in your stools becoming more obvious
In most people, no specific trigger for flare-ups is identified, although a gut infection can occasionally be the cause.
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