Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease

Ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease are intimately related conditions and are more often than not called inflammatory bowel disease. Ulcerative colitis causes frequent or relentless inflammation of one or more sections of the intestine. This inflammation progresses into ulcers or open sores. Ulcerative colitis only transpires in the colon or large intestine contrasting crohn’s disease, which can be extensive.

Every so often these chronic illnesses can become incapacitating. The facility for absorption of food by the intestines is hampered, which may lead to nutritional insufficiencies. Ulcerative colitis sufferers find that some foods intensify symptoms, and consequently they are forever experimenting to find foods that they can tol¬erate.

Ulcerative colitis is an unpredictable illness with times when it is vigorous and others when it is in remission. Signs and symptoms of ulcerative colitis include bloody bowel movements, diarrhea and pressing trips to the toilet. Additional symptoms of ulcerative colitis are mucus, pus and blood in the stools, tiredness, crampy abdominal pain and fever.

It is not easy to make a diagnosis of ulcerative colitis because there are many reasons for persistent diarrhea and a lot of these other illnesses are more common than ulcerative colitis. The most useful test used to aid diagnosis of ulcerative colitis is Endoscopy. Blood tests and X-ray’s are also useful in the diagnostic process.

Corticosteroids are the most commonly used ulcerative colitis drugs. . The introduction of these drugs for the treatment of ulcerative colitis greatly decreased the threat of death and these days it is only a little higher in those with ulcerative colitis compared to the population as a whole.

The cure for ulcerative colitis relies on surgical removal of the entire colon as well as the rectum. The number of people who undergo ulcerative colitis surgery and colon removal is over one-fifth and under one-third. However, crohn’s disease, as with some other chronic illnesses has no known cure. Drugs can alleviate the symptoms as can surgical removal of the infected organ in severe cases.

Since the 1980s, researchers have been demonstrating the benefits of coconut oil for individuals with digestive disorders and diseases, including ulcerative colitis and crohn's disease. Coconut oil is an anti-inflammatory and it seems that it plays a role in alleviating and curing the inflammation and damage in the digestive tract that are characteris¬tic of ulcerative colitis and crohn's disease. Its antimicrobial assets also affect intestinal health by destroying bothersome micro-organisms that may cause the chronic inflammation symptoms of ulcerative colitis and crohn’s disease.

As strange as this may sound, there is scientific backing that relief can be found for the symptoms of ulcerative colitis and crohn’s disease, by eating macaroons. If you don’t like macaroons and cooked coconut products, then coconut oil and coconut milk are just as effectual as a natural treatment to bring relief from ulcerative colitis and crohn’s disease.