Inflammation of the intestines is a common ailment that occurs due to non-compliance with proper nutrition rules by people. People who have a predisposition to digestive disorders are significantly affected.
Symptoms and signs of intestinal inflammation are general and do not depend on the problem’s location and its cause.
Enteritis
Inflammation of the mucous membrane of the small intestine – is often combined with damage to other parts of the gastrointestinal tract (gastroenteritis, enterocolitis)
Acute enteritis first manifests itself with diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, pain in the umbilical region. Then general symptoms join – fever, weakness, sweating, headache. The disease progresses quickly.
Chronic enteritis develops over a long period, often against the background of concomitant gastritis. The disease manifests itself as dull, weak pain around the navel, nausea, bloating, rumbling after eating. In severe cases, diarrhea is characteristic. In feces, gas bubbles, particles of undigested food are noticeable. The patient’s body weight decreases, weakness, and general malaise, external signs of hypovitaminosis occur.
Gas
It has been found that in inflammatory bowel disease patients, the intestinal bacteria are different from what is found in healthy individuals. Bacteria are responsible for your gas. When they digest parts of the food that you eat, gaseous byproducts are formed. It has been scientifically proven that patients have worse gas than healthy individuals.
Gurgling Gut
The most bothersome symptom is the gurgling gut. This happens because your intestines are filled with gas and fluid fecal matter, unlike those with normal stool. Every time your bowels move to push the matter along, it sets off a cacophony of bubbles and squeals.
Weight loss
Weight loss is the most common symptom of inflammatory bowel disease. Weight loss can be caused by various factors: failure to absorb nutrients, lack of appetite, and mechanisms associated with severe inflammation. Different patients experience weight loss during a flare.
Mucus
A mucus layer on the inside of your intestinal walls is a normal phenomenon. It’s there to protect you from your intestinal flora. More mucus is produced during inflammation than usual, and it’s sometimes visible as a whitish substance in your stool.
Additional inflamed organs
Sometimes, inflammatory bowel disease can lead to other types of problems in other areas of your body. The most typical areas that become inflamed are the joints, the skin, and the eyes. Most patients experience at least one form at some point in their lives.
To be correctly diagnosed with a form of inflammatory bowel disease, it’s essential to visit an IBD Clinics Network. They will, likely, perform several blood tests and a colonoscopy. Studies show that the sooner you receive treatment for chronic inflammatory diseases, the better the long-term outcome.
To learn more about inflammatory bowel disease, please feel free to look at a short video, which describes IBD passport was developed to help people who’ve got a diagnosis of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. And it’s intended to be an information resource to give people confidence and knowledge that they can travel and give them the tools that they’re able to do it safely.
