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Digestive Diseases
Introduction: Digestive Diseases
Any condition that involves the digestive tract. The conditions may range from benign to serious. Some examples include duodenal ulcer, esophageal achalasia, fecal incontinence, Whipple disease and dysentery. The digestive system involves the tube from the mouth to the rectum (esophagus, stomach, intestines) as well as various organs the are connected to this tube such as the liver and pancreas.
Symptoms of Digestive Diseases
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Medical Textbooks Online about Digestive Diseases
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Wrongly Diagnosed with Digestive Diseases?
Misdiagnosis and Digestive Diseases
Chronic digestive conditions often misdiagnosed: When diagnosing chronic symptoms of the digestive tract, there are a variety of conditions that may be misdiagnosed. The best known, irritable bowel syndrome, is over...read more »
Intestinal bacteria disorder may be hidden cause: One of the lesser known causes of diarrhea is an imbalance of bacterial in the gut, sometimes called intestinal imbalance. The digestive...read more »
Antibiotics often causes diarrhea: The use of antibiotics are very likely to cause some level of diarrhea in patients. The reason is that...read more »
Food poisoning may actually be an infectious disease: Many people who come down with "stomach symptoms" like diarrhea assume that it's "something I ate" (i.e. food poisoning). In fact, it's more likely to be an infectious...read more »
Mesenteric adenitis misdiagnosed as appendicitis in children: Because appendicitis is one of the more feared conditions for a child with abdominal pain, it can be over-diagnosed (it can, of course, also fail to be diagnosed with fatal effect)....read more »
Celiac disease often fails to be diagnosed cause of chronic digestive symptoms: One of the most common chronic digestive conditions is celiac disease, a...read more »
Chronic digestive diseases hard to diagnose: There is an inherent difficulty in diagnosing the various types of chronic digestive diseases. Some of the...read more »
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Causes of Digestive Diseases
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Stomach Ulcers
Not too long ago doctors thought stomach ulcers were caused by stress and spicy foods. In 1982 researchers discovered a bacteria that changed our...
Treating Stomach Cancer
Gastric cancer, more commonly known as stomach cancer, is one of the most common cancers in the world. Learn more about this cancer and what...
IBD Cooking
The kitchen is where problems sometimes start and where solutions are often found for people with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). For the latest on...
IBD Intro
Few diseases generate as many misconceptions as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Listen to host Bettina Gregory and two...
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Prognosis for Digestive Diseases
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Reseach about Digestive Diseases
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Statistics for Digestive Diseases
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Types of Digestive Diseases
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- NAUSEA AND VOMITING (Algorithmic Diagnosis of Symptoms and Signs)
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- Bowel sounds, hyperactive (Professional Guide to Signs & Symptoms (Fifth Edition))
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- Vomiting (Professional Guide to Signs & Symptoms (Fifth Edition))
- Nausea and Vomiting (The 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual: Symptoms and Signs in the Time-Limited Encounter)
- Nausea/Vomiting (Field Guide to Bedside Diagnosis)
- Bowel sounds, hyperactive (Alarming Signs and Symptoms: Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice Series)
- Vomiting (Alarming Signs and Symptoms: Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice Series)
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- Regurgitation and Vomiting (The Diagnostic Approach to Symptoms and Signs in Pediatrics)
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