Ulcerative colitis is an inflammatory bowel disease, it affects mainly to the large intestine and rectum.

It causes long lasting inflammation and ulcers in your digestive tract.

Symptoms of Ulcerative colitis:

Symptoms of ulcerative colitis depends on the location-where it occurs and on severity of inflammation.

  • Abdominal pain and cramping.
  • Rectal pain
  • Weight loss
  • Weakness
  • Fever
  • Urgency for passing stools
  • Inability to defecate despite urgency
  • Severe rectal pain and bleeding, passing blood in small amount, while passing stool
  • It also affects the growth of the children
  • Diarrhea

Causes:

Ulcerative colitis is caused by abnormal immune system activation. Normally in human body, immune system get activated due to harmful invaders like, bacteria, fungi and viruses.  But in ulcerative colitis it remain active in the absence of harmful invaders also, which leads to chronic inflammation and ulceration of intestine causes ulcerative colitis. Susceptibility for ulcerative colitis is more if there is family history of it.

Risk factors:

Heredity:  there are high risk of ulcerative colitis if your first degree blood relatives (father, mother, siblings) have ulcerative colitis.

Stress and diet:  these 2 factors are responsible for ulcerative colitis

Age: it generally begin below the age of 30, but can occur any time between 30-60 years of age

Race: it is more common in white people and also in Jewish descent.

Homeopathy:

Homeopathy medicine treats the disease from it’s root by prescribing constitutional medicine. It prevent the relapses of the ulcerative colitis.  It decreases the overall sensitiveness of the symptom and also remove them. Homeopathy treatment prevent the further complication of the disease also. The duration of homeopathy treatment depend on the period of disease and its severity.

Homeopathy medicine:

There are more than 50 medicines which treat the ulcerative colitis. Following are some example

  • Podophyllum: stools offensive and dark color, mostly painless one.
  • Aloes: constant bearing down sensation. Burning at rectum.
  • Belladonna: constant colicky pain coming and going quickly. Abdomen distended. Transverse colon protrudes like a pad.

 

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