Articles on digestive health: reflux, bloating, bowel habits, food intolerance and what endoscopy involves. Blood in the stool, unexplained weight loss or trouble swallowing always need a medical check.
Long-term hepatitis B treatment with oral antiviral medicines usually suppresses the virus to undetectable levels in blood, calms liver inflammation, and lowers the risk…
Family doctors generally refer hepatitis to a hepatologist when infection becomes chronic (hepatitis B surface antigen or hepatitis C RNA persisting beyond six months),…
Most hepatitis C treatment side effects from modern direct-acting antivirals are mild and short-lived: tiredness, headache, nausea, and trouble sleeping are the ones people…
After keyhole gallbladder surgery, most people are walking within hours, go home the same day or the next, and manage light activity within a…
Recovery from acute pancreatitis usually takes about a week for mild cases, which make up roughly four in five episodes according to the NHS,…
Laparoscopic hiatal hernia repair is keyhole surgery done under general anesthesia through several small abdominal cuts. The surgeon pulls the herniated stomach back below…
Hepatitis A is confirmed by a blood test for IgM antibodies to the hepatitis A virus, which appear shortly before symptoms and fade over…
An IBS symptom and food diary is a daily record of what you ate and drank, when, and how your gut and body responded…
Most gastroenteritis clears on its own within a few days. Vomiting typically settles in one to two days and diarrhea within five to seven…
Hospitals treat food poisoning mainly by replacing lost fluid and salts, usually with oral rehydration and, when someone cannot keep fluids down or shows…
Most people with mild, uncomplicated diverticulitis start to feel better within about 2 to 3 days of starting treatment, and many feel close to…
Celiac disease is treated with a strict, lifelong gluten-free diet, which removes wheat, barley and rye so the damaged lining of the small intestine…
Cholecystitis, inflammation of the gallbladder, is usually treated in hospital with intravenous fluids, a period without food, pain relief and, when infection is suspected,…
Ulcerative colitis is treated in two phases: medicines to induce remission during a flare, then a different or continued medicine to maintain it. Aminosalicylates…
Preparing for ERCP usually means an overnight or roughly eight-hour fast from solid food, a personal plan for any blood thinner agreed with the…
Living with inflammatory bowel disease means treating stress management, hydration and nutrition as supporting parts of care, not replacements for medical treatment. Stress does…
Anti-reflux surgery is usually considered only after GERD has been confirmed with testing and has not been controlled by lifestyle changes and an adequate…
In Crohn's disease, remission means the inflammation has quieted enough that symptoms settle and, ideally, blood tests, stool markers and the gut lining itself…
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