You don't always need a colostomy bag with colitis, although in some cases if you have surgery for colitis you may need a colostomy bag.
Some surgical procedures for treating colitis like a proctocolectomy with ileostomy, require either a temporary colostomy bag or permanent colostomy bag.
And other surgical procedures for colitis like ileal pouch anal anastomosis or IPAA or J pouch surgery will create an internal pouch from your small intestine to allow you to have more normal bowel movements and avoid the need to have a colostomy bag.
What a gastroenterologist will do for colitis is perform a physical exam, order blood tests and stool tests and use endoscopies such as colonoscopies and even use imaging tests like MRI scans and or CT scans.
Treatment for the colitis will focus on reducing the inflammation from the colitis using medications like anti inflammatories, biologics and or immune suppressants.
The gastroenterologist will also often recommend lifestyle adjustments and dietary adjustments and in severe cases, surgery can be done to correct the colitis condition.
The time of day that colitis pain is worse is in the morning and also at night.
Colitis pain is worse in the morning as well as at night as a result of your colon's activity and the effects of eating.
When you have colitis you may wake up with discomfort as your colon begins it's daily activities and nighttime colitis symptoms can result from eating close to bedtime or even from a lack of distractions.
Colitis pain can also occur at any time as flare ups of colitis are unpredictable.
Colitis is inflammation of your large intestines also called your colon and it can cause a variety of different symptoms.
Common symptoms of colitis are fever, vomiting and nausea, rectal bleeding, diarrhea and abdominal pain and cramping.
Colitis and ulcerative colitis are different conditions although they are related.
Ulcerative colitis is a specific type of colitis which is also an autoimmune disorder and it causes chronic inflammation in the lining of your colon.
Colitis can have multiple causes and ulcerative colitis is an autoimmune disorder.
Colitis also causes inflammation anywhere in your colon, and ulcerative colitis often affects only your lower colon and rectum.
Ulcerative colitis results in the presence and development of ulcers in your colon.
And colitis may or may not have these ulcers.
Treatment for colitis will depend on the cause and ulcerative colitis is often treated with medications such as immunosuppressants and corticosteroids.
Colitis is basically a general term, for inflammation of your colon and ulcerative colitis is a certain or specific type of colitis, which is an autoimmune disorder that results in ulcers and chronic inflammation in the colon.