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The best place to get ulcerative colitis info is from your doctor, but knowing that friends and family members as well as patients sometimes do not get as much information as they need, this article attempts to answer questions such as “what is ulcerative colitis”, as well as provide some information about ulcerative colitis nutrition recommendations. None of this is meant to take the place of you...

Colitis, also known as ulcerative colitis, refers to a type of inflammatory bowel disease affecting the inner lining of the colon (the large intestine). Inflammation of the intestinal wall, whether chronic or acute, causes ulcers to be formed in the top layers of the lining. These ulcers may bleed and produce pus. A patient of colitis experiences an uncontrollable urge to empty the bowels frequent...

I’ll give up when I die.  I still from time to time go back jogging, I don’t know if it is to see if my UC still stops me or to find out if I can overcome it.

I wonder some days if I am just plain mad.

Colitis is the term for inflammation of the colon or large bowel or intestine. The rectum is the very last part of the colon. When it is inflamed the term proctitis is used. Understanding the causes and treatment of colitis requires a basic understanding of the colon and inflammation.

The beginning of the colon is called the cecum. It begins in the lower right portion of the abdomen where the last...

An online clinic for those suffering from colitis and Crohn’s disease has just been launched.

The Crohn’s Disease and Colitis Clinic is to be run by the Irish Society for Colitis and Crohn’s disease (ISCC) and is sponsored by Abbott.

According to the Society, the aim of the new Clinic is to provide people living with Crohn’s disease or colitis, as well as healthcare professionals, ...

Ulcerative Colitis and the Flu don’t go well together, in fact whenever I am ill in any way my UC is always worse than usual.

I had an operation a couple of years ago for two hernias.  Before the operation I was of course quite sore, however I was surprised once again by how the UC always seems to be worse when there is something wrong with another part of my body.

All of this came back to mind to...

Ulcerative Colitis and Pizza don’t seems to go too well together.  And I have no idea why.  Perhaps I just blame food too often when things start to go wrong within my body.  But, hey, I eat piazza about three times per year, it is my typical comfort food, so I really should know that there is something going wrong when I decide that tonight is the night for pissa and four hours of film.

UC is a c...

The main reason I found out so quickly about my UC was that I used to jog all the time, then it became a problem. After about ten minutes jogging I would need to use the toilet. It is fairly hard to jog when you know you need to use the toliet - and once I was too far from home and did the toilet in my shorts, and only about 500 meters away from home on my way back. I had to walk slow home, do...

I love my coffee.  I used to hate my ulcerative colitis, before acceptance came slowly along - no other choice really.  I am told that the two of them don’t really go well together, but I still love my coffee.  Doctors since the beginning has told me that no food has any effect on UC - well any of us who have suffered knows that this does not ring true.  I concur on the opinion that it did not sta...

I don’t mean I have been cured of ulcerative colitis, I mean I have got over the anger, the depression, and the why me…

It all took a while and was not a lot of fun.  For about one year I was sick and did not go to the doctor - kinda typical male, head in the sand and it will all go away - it didn’t.  After about a year of passing blood and mucus and trying all sorts of other ways to get my body t...