Bowel and bladder health depends on identifying irritants, managing incontinence through lifestyle adjustments, and utilizing nutritional therapy.
Your kidneys continuously filter your blood, excreting waste products while holding back proteins and other important molecules. Healthy kidneys normally allow almost no protein to be lost in the urine.
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Irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS, is one of the most common digestive complaints, making up between 20 and 50 percent of all digestive-related visits to the doctor in the U.S., according to the University of Maryland Medical Center.
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Irritable bowel syndrome is a chronic disorder of the digestive tract. Common symptoms are cramps or stomach pain that improve after a bowel movement. IBS patients often suffer from constipation or diarrhea, sometimes alternating between them. Stress or some foods may aggravate symptoms, but an article in "
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The digestive system is made up of a series of tissues that mechanically and chemically digest food and absorb nutrients into the body to sustain life. The length of the digestive system is lined with membranes that contain specialized digestive cells, connective tissue and a rich supply of blood vessels.
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Blood and mucus in a child's stool can be alarming to parents. There are several causes of rectal bleeding, and doctors can determine the cause based on taking a careful history and an examination and through imaging and laboratory testing.
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Urinary tract infections affect your urinary system. The urinary system includes the bladder, the kidneys, the urethra and the ureters. Most infections affecting the bladder are known as lower tract infections, while infection of the kidneys is known as pyelonephritis.
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Infection of the bowels is a common problem that can arise from a virus, bacteria or a multitude of disorders. Any change in frequency or appearance of bowel movements can signal an infection or other bowel problem.
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Approximately 8 million to 10 million people get urinary tract infections annually in the United States. Most of these people are women. Women have shorter urethras, which is the likely cause of their more frequent infections. The urethra and bladder is where UTIs start.
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The medical term for an infected hair follicle is folliculitis, which is often associated with shaving. According to MayoClinic.com, folliculitis develops when bacteria enters one or more hair follicles. Folliculitis first develops as a red bump around the hair follicle.
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Frequent urination can occur due to many different causes. You could experience frequent urination due to urinary incontinence, a bladder infection or interstitial cystitis, a condition involving chronic bladder inflammation.
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You may already be able to spot the warning signs of a urinary tract infection, or UTI, if you get them often. The familiar burning, discomfort and constant need to urinate often means only one thing--bacteria in the urinary system are causing a UTI.
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If you haven't had a bowel movement in three days, you could be suffering from constipation. Constipation is sometimes treated with laxatives, but usually only on a short-term basis.
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An anal fissure is a small slit or tear in the mucosal lining of the rectum. Causes of adult anal fissures include constipation, passing large stools and swelling caused by inflammatory bowel disease. MayoClinic.com reports nearly 90 percent of anal fissures heal without any treatment.
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One of the more common causes of blood in the stool is the development of anal fissures. Anal fissures are very small tears (usually less than 1 1/2 inch) that occur in the skin of the anus (which is where the bowel movements leave the body).
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Chronic irregularities in the body are sometimes related to nutritional deficiencies of some kind. That can be the case when you are experiencing frequent urination; the condition sometimes results from a lack of the vitamin B12. Talk to you doctor about your frequent urination.
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The inability of an individual to control when he has a bowel movement is called fecal incontinence. While a disorder involving the gastrointestinal or neurological system is typically the cause of fecal incontinence, other conditions may also result in a loss of bowel control.
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By the time your baby is 8 months old, the two of you have developed your own ways of communicating. While it mostly revolves around body language, you can usually tell if sheโs not feeling well.
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Group B streptococcus (GBS) is a spherical bacteria that is commonly found in the digestive and lower genital tract of many individuals but may cause urinary tract infections (UTI) in newborns and in immunocompromised individuals.
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Urinary tract infections, or UTIs, can affect one or more parts of the urinary system, including the kidneys, the bladder and the tubes that connect to them. If youโre experiencing abnormal colored urine, burning urination, cramping in the lower back or abdomen or fever, you could have a UTI.
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Irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS, is a common digestive disorder that effects as many as one in five people, according to the National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse. If you suffer from IBS, you likely experience cramping, diarrhea, abdominal discomfort, constipation and trouble eating certain foods.
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