Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Weekly health news roundup: IBS, Crohn’s disease, kidney stones, inflammatory bowel disease, cataracts

This week’s health news roundup presents articles discussing irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn’s disease, kidney stones, inflammatory bowel disease, and cataracts. This week we discuss how IBS symptoms may be lowered with modified rye bread, natural treatments for Crohn’s disease, higher risk of kidney stones in ankylosing spondylitis, and how cataract surgery can help extend seniors’ ...click here to read more

National Celiac Disease Awareness Day: IBD, migraine, gluten sensitivity, gluten-free diet, liver disease

September 13, 2016 is National Celiac Disease Awareness Day. As it’s approaching next week, we present our top stories discussing various aspects of celiac disease, including inflammatory bowel disease, migraines, gluten sensitivity, gluten-free diet, and liver disease. September 13 was chosen as celiac awareness day because that is the birthday of Samuel Gee who was ...click here to read more

Inflammatory bowel disorders alleviated by protein from bacteria in yogurt and dairy products: Study

Inflammatory bowel disorders (IBD) may be alleviated by protein from probiotic bacteria in yogurt and dairy products. The protein – known as P40 – was found to be effective in animal models of colitis, a type of inflammatory bowel disease. The researchers demonstrated that P40 helped support intestinal epithelial cell growth and function, and reduce ...click here to read more

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) flares and gastroenteritis incidences increase with heat wave: Study

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) flares and gastroenteritis incidences increase with heat waves, according to research. The findings come from Swiss researchers explaining, “There is evidence for an increase of IBD hospital admissions by four to six percent for each additional day within a heat wave period. Presence of a heat wave was estimated to increase ...click here to read more

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) associated with chronic narcotic use: Study

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is associated with the chronic use of narcotics in child patients. Lead author Jessie P. Buckley said, “Chronic narcotic use is common in pediatric IBD patients, particularly among those with anxiety and depression. Describing the characteristics of children with IBD using long-term narcotics is important to define the magnitude of this ...click here to read more

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) risk lower with poor oral health, dental plaques reduce Crohn’s disease risk: Study

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) risk is lower with poor oral health. The recent research based on a Swedish population-based cohort study has come up to a surprising conclusion: Poor oral health was associated with a reduced risk of developing IBD. Increased IBD prevalence in the Western world is usually explained by the hygiene hypothesis, suggesting ...click here to read more

Multiple sclerosis and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) link identified in study

Multiple sclerosis (MS) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) link has been identified. Studies have shown an increase in IBD rates – specifically, Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis – in multiple sclerosis patients. IBD is characterized by inflammation of the intestines and colon, whereas multiple sclerosis destroys the protective coating around the nerves, disrupting the communication ...click here to read more

Shingles risk can increase with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD): Study

Shingles risk can increase with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to the research. A cohort study of 108,604 patients has found that the risk of contracting herpes zoster risk is greater in IBD patients than non-IBD patients. Those taking antitumor necrosis factor-alpha agents (TNF) were found to be particularly prone to the virus. Herpes zoster ...click here to read more

Weekly health news roundup: Celiac disease, ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, and inflammatory bowel disease

This week’s health news roundup includes recent stories about celiac disease, ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). This week, we discussed the benefits of going gluten-free in celiac disease, possible treatment for ulcerative colitis, risk of cancer in rheumatoid arthritis, positive impact of aquatic aerobics on fibromyalgia patients, and the problem ...click here to read more

Inflammatory bowel disease patients more likely to have urinary tract infections, renal failure, and sepsis: Studies

Inflammatory bowel disease patients are more likely to have urinary tract infections, renal failure, stone formation (urolithiasis), and sepsis. The researchers compared IBD patients and urolithiasis patients to a cohort of individuals with urinary stone formation. The study included 14,352 IBD and urolithiasis patients combined. IBD patients with urolithiasis had higher rates of sepsis and ...click here to read more

Ulcerative colitis risk linked to childhood physical and sexual abuse: Study

Ulcerative colitis risk is linked to childhood physical and sexual abuse, according to research. The researchers at the University of Toronto uncovered that adults who were exposed to physical or sexual abuse in the childhood were approximately twice as likely to have ulcerative colitis. Lead author Professor Esme Fuller-Thomson said, “We found that one-quarter of ...click here to read more

In osteoporosis, natural probiotic supplement can help build healthier bones: Study

In osteoporosis, natural probiotic supplements can help build healthier bones. The findings come from Michigan State University where researchers found that a natural probiotic supplement given to male mice helped promote stronger bones. The same results were not rendered in female mice.  Lead author Laura McCabe said, “We know that inflammation in the gut can ...click here to read more