Many people suffer from colon diseases such as irritable bowel syndrome, colitis, and ulcers. There are many reasons behind all these cases. What are the most important and common colon diseases? What are its causes and most important symptoms?
First: Bowel Disease Inflammatory. To begin with, is inflammatory colon disease considered? A name for a group of diseases that lead to inflammation of the intestine that lasts for long periods during which the patient feels some symptoms such as abdominal pain, cramps, and severe diarrhea, and sometimes it leads to bloody bleeding from the anus.
There are two main types of this disease. The first is Crohn’s Disease, and the second is Ulcerative Colitis. There is a third type between these two types, which is less severe and is called Indeterminate Colitis.
? Cause of inflammatory colon disease
As for the main cause of this disease, it is not known yet, but there are some indications of a defect in the immune system or the presence of a microbe that has led to a defect in the immune system, which results in the immune system being unable to distinguish well parts of the intestine and colon, so it begins to attack them and cause damage to them, such as ulcers. Or bleeding.
? What are the symptoms of the disease
As for the symptoms of the disease, the stage of inflammation differs in the three types (Crohn’s disease, chronic colon ulcers, and non-specific colitis) according to each type. In the first type, represented by Crohn’s Disease, it affects the digestive system from the mouth to the anus, but in most cases it begins from the anus. Between the small intestine and the large intestine on the right side of the abdomen, it leads to severe inflammation and then fibrosis in this area. Then it affects another part of the intestine with the same stage of inflammation and fibrosis. Therefore, the patient may develop many symptoms.
As for the second type, which is chronic ulcerative colon ulcers, the disease affects the left side of the colon with the same previous phase of inflammation and fibrosis, resulting in fibrosis in the wall of the left colon. In both cases, patients feel abdominal pain and cramps, then a severe period of diarrhea that does not stop with traditional treatment, and sometimes bleeding from the anus. Accompanying diarrhea. The third type remains, which is indeterminate colitis. It has a lower degree of symptoms, such as abdominal pain, cramps, and diarrhea, but it recurs throughout the year and does not respond to traditional drug treatment
Second: Spastic Colon – This is the colloquial (non-scientific) name given to unstable irritable bowel syndrome – which is a group of symptoms that the patient suffers from, such as pain, abdominal cramps, bloating, and alternating between constipation and diarrhea
This disease arises due to instability in intestinal motility. Intestinal movement is responsible for transporting digested food into the intestine, which turns into waste in the colon. Food moves quickly into the intestine, which enables the intestinal wall to absorb important components of food, water, essential elements, and vitamins. This stable speed is so important that it is a factor. Essential for digestion, this movement is called peristaltic movement of the intestines.
This movement is controlled by many factors, including the nervous system, hormones, the intestinal wall, and the intestine itself, which works to stabilize this speed of transporting digested food inside it. In unstable colon disease (IBS), the speed of the intestine increases or decreases, which leads to disruption of the transport of what is inside it. An increase in the speed of the intestine leads to contractions. Abdominal pain with diarrhea and the inability to control excretion for a long time, but if the bowel movement slows down, this leads to bloating, and abdominal pain with constipation. Accordingly, the patient moves from one to another in successive cycles
The latest scientific research has proven that in cases of irritable bowel syndrome, there is an acceleration in colon movement and a large number of expulsions, along with contractions in the colon wall, causing severe pain. Therefore, cases of chronic constipation constitute a small portion of cases of irritable bowel syndrome, but what is the cause of chronic constipation? In our latest research published in the International Colon and Anus Journal, it was found that chronic constipation is one of two things: either colonic or anal, meaning that colonic results from a slowdown in the movement of the colon, as the colon has a regulated phase of movement that transports the outputs coming from the small intestine to the colon and then ends up in the anus and regulates it. These are electrical pulses that come out of the colon wall to regulate the contraction and relaxation of the colon wall. In cases of chronic colon constipation, there is a slowdown and imbalance in the electrical impulses, which leads to a delay in the passage of waste into the colon beyond once every 24 hours, which leads to the drying of the waste in order to absorb water through the colon wall, which It leads to the excretion of very hard feces that injure the anal area and cause secondary fissures
