About 2 years ago I had a one month stint with a lot of pain and blood in the stool. I never go to the doctor due to the USA's healthcare system and fear of colon cancer, however, I switched to about a 95 % vegetarian diet (i.e. tomatoes, avocados, grapes, strawberries, carrots, cherries, etc.) with little or no processed foods and haven't had any problems since (no medication).
ok thanks dudeman, can i ask you what a normal meal for you is the whole day? i was just diagnosed with it and i dont want to go on drugs
Lifestyle and home remedies per the Mayo Clinic's recommendations. http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/ulcerative-colitis/DS00598/DSECTION=lifestyle-and-home-remedies Alternative medicine. http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/ulcerative-colitis/DS00598/DSECTION=alternative-medicine
I never went back to my old diet. Today, for example, was a large bowl of grapes for breakfast, two slices of pizza and a coke for lunch and about 5 tomatoes (olive oil and basil) and three beers for dinner. I also drank about 5 iced teas during the day with no sugar. I still eat crappy food (i.e. potato chips, etc.), however, it is always combined with easily digestible stuff so that the ratio of raw food to cooked or processed food is about 9-1. I am not a physician and I never had it diagnosed. I might have had just a severe case of hemorrhoids for an extended time, however, it lasted long enough for me to change my ways. About 7 years ago I tried a long jump and torqued my back for over a year. That pain had me playing Russian Roulette every night until I disciplined myself with physical therapy for 5 months. This type of pain was bad but not as bad as the back. Same thing, however, I do back exercises every day even though the pain has been gone for 5 years. It is a lifestyle change.
If you don't know if you have ulcerative colitis, it's probably best not to give others medical advice in regards to it.
Do not take random medical advice from people on the internet. See a physician or reference credible medical literature such as I have provided.
that physicians and nurses are clueless lab technicians that take advice and dogma from real researchers (i.e. engineers and scientists). I have a publication record. Eating healthy is never a bad idea - just skip the beers that I had.
Had ulcerative colitis when I was 28, is a mean disease, had ostomy surgery when I was 30... Natural defense mechanism may fight C. difficile 8/21/2011 — A natural defense mechanism used by cells in the gut to neutralize harmful toxins may lead to new ways to fight Clostridium difficile, the most common cause of hospital-acquired bacterial infections, researchers said on Sunday. See also: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
I have ulcerative colitis and have had it for 18 years. In my opinion you cannot go without drugs and I take 6 Asacol tablets a day to control it. Even then I sometimes get blood in my stools and then take an enema called Cortenema. Be warned. Without treatment it will get worse. See a doctor who can arrange for you to have a colonoscopy which will ascertain if you have it and it's severity.
Sure beats the pain of a regular colonoscopy... Virtual colonoscopy still has its skeptics 09/16/2011 : Whether the most technologically advanced way to check for colon cancer will become the standard screening method of the future does not appear to be a slam-dunk.
Defeating C. diff with competing bacteria... 'Faecal transplant' clue to treating gut bug 25 October 2012 - C. difficile bacteria live in many people's guts
Well it looks like this white stuff is here to stay for awhile. It is forecast for every day for a week. Aint we got gun. http://www.wyoroad.info/highway/webcameras/WYO22TetonPass/WYO22TetonPass.html
Who wants to eat monkey worms? Yuch!... Parasitic worms 'treat diarrhoea' 15 November 2012 - Chronic diarrhoea could be treated using parasitic worms, a study of monkeys has suggested.
Worms work, but there is a new one where stool from someone who has a good immune system is transplanted in those with digestive disorders in the colon. The reasoning is that the good bacteria from the healthy persons stool, will take up residence in the sick persons stool, and kill the disease off
Granny says now dey got a breath test for bowel cancer... 'Promising results' for bowel cancer breath-test 4 December 2012 - Could a breath test detect cancer? See also: Testing for cervical cancer with vinegar 4 December 2012 - Smear tests to check for abnormal cells that lead to cervical cancer are expensive and require specialist equipment. So doctors in India are trying a new method - vinegar swabs.
This general technique reminds me of what my niece is currently going through. She was diagnosed in early May with lung cancer. Since she was not a smoker and had never worked in an environment that promotes cancer, they did more investigating and found out that the lung cancer actually came originally from Pancreatic cancer (yes. . .I know, not good!). The pancreatic cancer had not reached the liver, but had metastasized to the lungs and the lungs were already at an advanced stage (she is 59 years old, but has ALWAYS been very healthy). It was too late to do surgery on the lungs, but they did try chemotherapy. . . then more aggressive chemo. After 3 months, the oncologists told her she had only 6 to 12 months to live. She wouldn't accept that, and decided to go to an experimental treatment in a clinic in Germany (near Nuremberg). The basis of that experimental treatment is to raise the temperature of the body very high and to inject, DAILY, one of 7 types of animal virus directly into the lungs. She also has one surgery a month when a very specific, very powerful chemotherapy is delivered directly in the pancreas. Both treatments are EXTREMELY costly and very painful. One virus is tried at a time for a period of 3 weeks. If there is no progress, the treatment switches to another animal virus. My niece, because she has always been so strong, is doing "fairly well," and she wants to continue the treatments in spite of the suffering that is involved. The tumor on the pancreas has shrunk by half, but the lungs are very inflamed and the lesions are multiplying in the lungs. She knows needs to be on oxygen several hours each day. She has been following those two experimental treatments (the one for the pancreas and the other for the lungs) since the end of September, and she is expected to continue with those treatments for another 4 months. . .if she is strong enough to continue with those. The reason I mention this is because it seems that the treatment with "animal virus" injected into her lungs is basically the same theory as the one mentioned in the MSNBC quote you provided. I believe it is very scary, and I am not sure I would have the courage my niece has (or the financial ability, since, as an experimental treatment, it is not covered by any insurance, any place in the world) to proceed with this treatment. Basically, it looks like. . .if the treatment doesn't kill her, it might succeed in killing the cancer cells! So frightening!. .but what choice does she have with metastasized pancreatic cancer?
