Coping successfully with Ulcerative Colitis
If you've been diagnosed - or think you might be soon - with ulcerative colitis,
you will know that it has symptoms which can be painful,
disruptive and frequently embarrassing. Although a common condition,
it is one not often talked about,
which makes the practical advice given in this handbook even more indispensable.

In Coping Successfully with Ulcerative Colitis,
Peter Cartwright offers clear,
accessible information about the condition. He outlines the causes and explains which diagnostic tests are necessary and what treatments are available. The book also gives helpful strategies for self-management through diet and other lifestyle changes. Should surgery become necessary,
there is step-by-step guidance on to what to expect,
both during a hospital stay and afterwards,
and reassuring insights on adjusting to a stoma.

This practical,
readable and clinically comprehensive book will reassure you or your loved one,
offering an opportunity to live life to the full,
free from the limitations imposed by ulcerative colitis.
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Coping successfully with Ulcerative Colitis
If you've been diagnosed - or think you might be soon - with ulcerative colitis,
you will know that it has symptoms which can be painful,
disruptive and frequently embarrassing. Although a common condition,
it is one not often talked about,
which makes the practical advice given in this handbook even more indispensable.

In Coping Successfully with Ulcerative Colitis,
Peter Cartwright offers clear,
accessible information about the condition. He outlines the causes and explains which diagnostic tests are necessary and what treatments are available. The book also gives helpful strategies for self-management through diet and other lifestyle changes. Should surgery become necessary,
there is step-by-step guidance on to what to expect,
both during a hospital stay and afterwards,
and reassuring insights on adjusting to a stoma.

This practical,
readable and clinically comprehensive book will reassure you or your loved one,
offering an opportunity to live life to the full,
free from the limitations imposed by ulcerative colitis.
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Coping successfully with Ulcerative Colitis

Coping successfully with Ulcerative Colitis

by Peter Cartwright
Coping successfully with Ulcerative Colitis

Coping successfully with Ulcerative Colitis

by Peter Cartwright

Overview

If you've been diagnosed - or think you might be soon - with ulcerative colitis,
you will know that it has symptoms which can be painful,
disruptive and frequently embarrassing. Although a common condition,
it is one not often talked about,
which makes the practical advice given in this handbook even more indispensable.

In Coping Successfully with Ulcerative Colitis,
Peter Cartwright offers clear,
accessible information about the condition. He outlines the causes and explains which diagnostic tests are necessary and what treatments are available. The book also gives helpful strategies for self-management through diet and other lifestyle changes. Should surgery become necessary,
there is step-by-step guidance on to what to expect,
both during a hospital stay and afterwards,
and reassuring insights on adjusting to a stoma.

This practical,
readable and clinically comprehensive book will reassure you or your loved one,
offering an opportunity to live life to the full,
free from the limitations imposed by ulcerative colitis.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781529381078
Publisher: Mobius
Publication date: 03/30/2021
Pages: 144
Product dimensions: 5.80(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Peter Cartwright has 17 years' experience of working for patient and self-help associations,
including as Assistant Director of the National Association for Colitis and Crohn's Disease. He is a former Trustee of the
Bladder and Bowel Foundation,
the main UK charity providing information and support to people with diverticular disease. Peter has an MSc in Microbiology,
a BSc in Biomedicine and an MA in Sociology,
and is the author of Coping Successfully with Ulcerative Colitis (Sheldon Press) and Probiotic Allies: How to maximise the health benefits of your microflora (Prentice Publishing). Peter is married with two grown-up children and two grandchildren.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vi

Foreword Virginia Ironside vii

Introduction: basics of ulcerative colitis x

1 What causes ulcerative colitis? 1

2 Diagnosis and tests 8

3 Treatments 18

4 Diet 29

5 Living with ulcerative colitis 38

6 Non-intestinal complications 53

7 Surgery 58

8 Living with an ileostomy or a pouch 69

9 Special circumstances 76

10 Probiotics and prebiotics 85

11 Future developments 92

Glossary 101

Sources of help 105

Further reading 108

Index 109

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