Digestive Disorders

Digestive System

Our digestive system consists of the digestive tract, represented by several caval organs forming a long winding tube, stretching from mouth cavity to the anus. It also includes some other organs, allowing the organism to crush and absorb products we eat.

The digestive tract consists of such organs as mouth, gullet, stomach, small gut, large gut (colon in other words), straight intestine and anus. The inner surface of these caval organs is lined with so-called mucosa, which is mucous tissue. Food is digested with the help of juices produced by very small glands, contained in a person's mouth cavity, stomach and small gut. Besides, the digestive tract includes plain muscle layer, which participates in crushing food and forwarding it along the tract.

The liver and the pancreas, the two 'firm' digestive organs, form digestive juices coming to the gut through ducts, or tubes of small size. The gallbladder is destined to keep digestive juices produced by the liver until the gut starts to use them. The digestive system's proper functioning is also ensured by certain areas of the nervous and vascular systems.

Digestive Disorders

Millions of people in the USA hear the diagnosis 'digestive disorder' every year. Digestive disorders include different cases, from scarce digestive troubles to the fatal bowel cancer. Digestive disorders also include improper functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, and of the hepar, cholecyst and pancreatic gland as well.

As many as 95 million people suffer from digestive disorders. Digestive disorders make more than 37 million people go to their therapeutist each year.

Digestive Disorders Symptoms

One can think a person has a digestive disorder in case a person suffers from diarrhea, constipation, digestive tract bleeding, eructation and labored swallowing. If a patient has symptoms of a rather general character, like pains in the abdomen, meteorism, absence of appetite and sickness, it is a reason to suppose one of digestive disorders and a disorder of another kind as well.

Indigestion is an uncertain term, which people use to apply to different notions. This term includes a lot of different digestive disorders symptoms, such as dyspepsia, sickness and vomiting, eructation and a feeling of obstruction in the throat (feeling of globus).

Digestive Disorders

A list of different digestive disorders include:

• Bladder Problems
• Constipation
• Diarrhea
• Hemorrhoid
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Sensitive Digestion

Bladder Problems

There are a number of medical bladder problems that can affect the function of your bladder. Some of these bladder problems can manifest themselves in similar ways to incontinence, so it is important to seek help from your doctor or a continence advisor to identify the cause of your bladder problem.

The overactive bladder treatment depends on the cause of your bladder problems.

Constipation

Constipation is one of digestive disorder that can be different for different people. For some people constipation is having three defecations a week or less, and for others it means having solid and dry excrements, pains and difficulties when defecating. It is typical for some patients with constipation to feel weakness and the sensation of full or swollen abdomen.

Constipation treatment may be recommended in case a person has problems with muscles and nerves responsible for defecation.

Diarrhea

In case a person has diarrhea, his defecation process is disturbed, and his excrements are rather unformed. Excrements, or stool, are waste products, remaining after the digestive system (stomach, small gut and large gut) consumes nutrient material and liquids from food and drink one takes. Through the straight intestine excrements leave a person's body. In case liquids do not get absorbed, or in case too much liquid is produced by the digestive system, excrements get loose and will contain much water. Unformed excrements have bigger size. Patients with diarrhea defecate more often and the volume of stool with much water may exceed one liter.

In many cases diarrhea ends without any treatment, but it may also mean that a person has some severe digestive disorders. In case a person has diarrhea for 3 days and more, he is recommended to consult his doctor. Sometimes it may be advised to have medical diarrhea treatment.

Hemorrhoid

Speaking of hemorrhoid, we mean unusually bloated veins in the area of the straight intestine and anus. The veins look the same as legs of the one suffering from varix dilatation. In case of irritation of swollen hemorrhoidal veins, a patient feels strong pains, bloating, itching, and may experience bleeding. The reason of hemorrhoid is excessive pressure in the straight intestine, which makes the veins walls swollen and stretched because of the blood flow, and in some cases they even break.

Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a constellation of several clinical sings. In most cases such signs of IBS as pains in the abdomen or uncomfortable feeling there, produced by spasms, swelling, gas-formation, diarrhea and/or stool retention are present. IBS occurs in the large intestine, a section of the digestive tract where excrements are kept.

Unlike many other digestive disorder, there is no way to get rid of IBS, but it is possible to make the symptoms less disturbing. IBS treatment includes changes of nutritional habits, taking some drugs and making one's life less stressful.

Sensitive Digestion

The notion of Sensitive Digestion implies a permanent upset, represented by pains in the abdomen and interrupted diarrhea, frequently replaced by stool retention. Sensitive Digestion is quite typical for people from 20 to 30, and females experience it twice as much as males. Sensitive Digestion has other names, such as irritable colon, mucocolitis, unstable colon, irritable colon syndrome, nervous diarrhea, adaptive colitis and nervous bowel.

Digestive Disorders Treatment

Since there are different types of digestive disorders, there are different digestive disorders treatment. In addition to the information above, you may want to look for the following:

• Colon Cleanse
• Probiotics
• Liver Cleanse

Colon Cleanse

The colon is one of the major organs in a human body. The role of the colon is to remove waste products in the form of excrements. The colon reabsorbs nutrient materials and liquids. But under some circumstances the colon does not function the way it normally should.

In case of intestinal obstruction one should perform the colon cleanse, i.e. to eliminate alls waste products from the large and the small gut. Waste products are accumulated there because the gut cannot eliminate them itself.

Probiotics

Probiotics are food additives with microorganisms or yeast, which are potentially wholesome. One of the most positive things about probiotics is that they help us to fortify our immune system. The purpose of probiotics is to help our body to restore the natural intestinal flora. Doctors advise probiotics in some cases, but more often they are recommended by dietitians, especially after antibiotics treatment and in case of treatment for intestine-related candidiasis.

Liver Cleanse

The liver is one of the biggest and one of the major organs of a human body. It is something like a storage of different nutrition materials we receive from the consumed products, such as vitamins, sugars, fats, etc. The liver has many functions, such as formation of chemical materials necessary for good health, destruction of unhealthy substances, such as alcohol, and many other toxins, elimination of wastes from a person's blood.

The process of liver cleanse has been used by many people during many years. It allows one to eliminate stones, residuals, crystals and wastes from the liver, which put obstacles on the way to healing, and to remove all toxins from the cholecyst and the liver, as well as to clean the liver biliary tracts.