Seventy patients with diverticular disease of the colon were treated with a high-residue, low-sugar diet including unprocessed bran. Follow-up for an average of 22 months showed marked relief of symptoms in 62 patients. Bowel habit was restored towards normal and abdominal discomfort relieved. Only seven patients were unable to give up the use of laxatives. Eight patients did not tolerate the b...

How is it diagnosed? clinical features Actively consider constipation as a diagnosis in patients with learning disability. A focused history from the patient or carer regarding bowel habit (including faecal overflow) and abdominal pain is required, with careful attention to ensuring that the patient understands. We suggest that constipation be specifically considered during all learning disabil...

Colorectal cancer usually presents with alterations in the bowel habit. Less commonly, the presenting symptoms may be part of a paraneoplastic syndrome. Metastasis can occur by lymphatic or hematogenous spread, most frequently to the lungs and liver. We present the case of a 56-year-old man admitted with paraneoplastic polymyositis due to a poorly differentiated colon adenocarcinoma. The evolut...

Clinical features, complications and results of investigations are analysed in 50 patients diagnosed by jejunal biopsy as having coeliac disease at the Adult Gastroenterology Unit, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, between 1969 and 1983. Only one patient was entirely asymptomatic, but 22% had no disturbance of bowel habit, and 50% had not lost weight. There were relatively few physical abnormal...

Abdominal radiograph showing The anal ta severe constipation. pain-it ind which is. Constipation is the commonest cause of abdominal pain in childhood. A full rectum may compress the bladder, causing urinary problems. Constipation may be considered as either the passage of hard stools or an irregular bowel habit. Less easily recognisable is the passage of only small motions each day with the ch...

CASE HISTORY An 80 year old man presented with gross ascites and altered bowel habit. Investigations, including a barium enema and Duplex Doppler ultrasound, revealed a colonic carcinoma and a portal vein thrombosis (figure). The ascites was a transudate and did not contain any malignant cells. The ascites responded satisfactorily to treatment with spironolactone and he then underwent a left he...

Small bowel obstruction is a common surgical emergency but trichobezoar as an etiology, rarely reported. A seven year old school going female child presented with acute intestinal obstruction with a palpable and mobile mass in the abdomen. At exploration, a 10 cm long trichobezoar was found in the distal ileum which was removed through enterotomy. Postoperative course remained uneventful. Furth...

One hundred and fifteen consecutive new women patients were examined in a department of genitourinary medicine for evidence of infection with Chlamydia trachomatis in the rectum, in addition to the routine screening tests performed. An impression smear of the rectal mucosa was made as a semiquantitative assessment of the degree of proctitis, and details of bowel habit and symptoms and of sexual...

Aims: Constipation is one of the most common complaints digestive system. The prevalence constipation in general population approximately 15%. aim this study was to investigate frequency medical students, their defecation habits and correlation between two.
 Methods: conducted 1 January June 2019 through questionnaires. relationship individuals’ chronic investigated within scope study. Dat...