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The treatment of symptomatic amoebiasis then depends on your symptoms. Amoebic colitis Medicines called antibiotics are needed to treat amoebic colitis. Metronidazole is th...
Other complications include perforation of the colon, colonic ulcers, amoeboma, or chronic carriage. Amoebic colitis may lead to fulminant or necrotising colitis, toxic megacol...
Ulcerative Colitis, What is ulcerative colitis? Ulcerative colitis is a disease of the colon and the rectum (the large intestine). , Ulcerative colitis
E. histolytica causes amoebic colitis and dysentery but liver abscess is the most common extra-intestinal manifestation of infection [ 24 ] . , Polycystic liver disease Metronidazole ...
Pseudomembranous Colitis, Synonyms: Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea/disease, CD-positive diarrhoea, antibiotic-associated colitis Pseudomembranous colitis ...
Ulcerative Colitis, What is ulcerative colitis? Ulcerative colitis is an idiopathic chronic inflammatory disease of the colon that follows a course of relapse and remis...
You can find out more about treatments, including the latest guidelines, from our separate leaflets called Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis . Surgery Ulcerative coli...
Examples of diseases caused by parasites are malaria , amoebic dysentery and giardia . Threadworms , hookworms and tapeworms are also parasites. What do germs look like?
Aminosalicylates are a group of medicines used to treat inflammation of the gut that are used to treat and prevent flare-ups of ulcerative colitis. What are aminosalicylates? Aminosalicy...
Pseudomembranous colitis Pseudomembranous colitis occurs in some cases and is more serious. Colitis means inflammation of the colon. , Metronidazole Clostridium difficile...
They are distinct from the more famous Entamoeba histolytica (an obligate anaerobic parasite which can cause amoebiasis, amoebic dysentery and amoebic liver abscesses). Ac...
You have inflammation of the gut (active ulcerative colitis) . You have inflammation of the gut caused by antibiotics (antibiotic-associated colitis) .
Inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis) Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a term used for two long-term conditions that cause inflammation of the gut (dige...
Ulcerative colitis and other forms of colitis Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a disease where inflammation develops in the colon and rectum.
People with an inflammatory bowel condition such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease may also develop erythema nodosum. See the separate leaflets called Ulcerative Colitis and Cr...
Around four out of five people with PSC also have inflammatory bowel disease (most often ulcerative colitis , but it can also be associated with Crohn's disease ). Note : most peopl...
Other forms of colitis, such as pseudomembranous or amoebic, can also mimic diverticulitis. Investigations [ 2 , 6 ] Asymptomatic diverticulosis No investigations are n...
Ulcerative colitis . Arthritis. Multiple sclerosis . Adrenal insufficiency . Hypopituitarism .
Haemorrhagic colitis A number of people infected with VTEC O157 develop a very inflamed large bowel (colon) which bleeds a lot.
For example, infection with giardia , or amoebic infection . What are the complications of food poisoning? Complications are uncommon in the UK.