Ulcerative Colitis
What is Ulcerative Colitis?
Ulcerative Colitis is referred to the gastro intestinal tract infection that occurs on the inner wall of the colon in the large intestine. Due to the fact that colon is where the stool is stored before defecation it is pretty common to notice severe cramps, abdominal pain, diarrhea and rectal bleeding.
What causes Ulcerative Colitis? The causes for Ulcerative Colitis are still a very much of a mystery even in the Twenty First Century. Although it is certain that it arises from infection or sometimes from contagions, it is clearly also notable that most of the patients suffering from Ulcerative Colitis have never had a gastro intestinal infection or any case of contagions.
Technically Ulcerative Colitis occurs when the immune system of the body is activated chronically and instead of protecting the body from germs and harmful viruses, the self defense abnormally malfunctions and adversely affects the body. During this ‘self defense’ the immune system abnormally and chronically produces immune cells and proteins from these cells which cause uncontrolled inflammation at the spot of activation. This activation of the self dense in the bodies of the patients suffering from Ulcerative Colitis is without the presence of any known virus or any other harmful contagion or bacterial intrusion.
The fact that the immune system is triggered to release all these immune cells and their respective proteins to defend the body against an infection that has never occurred makes Ulcerative Colitis the mystery it is today, researchers are still unable to answer what chemical messengers trigger the immune system to react so abnormally.
Who are most likely to be affected by Ulcerative Colitis?
Ulcerative Colitis is mostly affects people in early adolescent and seldom later in the adulthood, even though it affects One hundred in every million people worldwide; however it is most common in people from the West, Middle east and Jewish decent. It is very
Ulcerative Colitis is referred to the gastro intestinal tract infection that occurs on the inner wall of the colon in the large intestine. Due to the fact that colon is where the stool is stored before defecation it is pretty common to notice severe cramps, abdominal pain, diarrhea and rectal bleeding.
What causes Ulcerative Colitis? The causes for Ulcerative Colitis are still a very much of a mystery even in the Twenty First Century. Although it is certain that it arises from infection or sometimes from contagions, it is clearly also notable that most of the patients suffering from Ulcerative Colitis have never had a gastro intestinal infection or any case of contagions.
Technically Ulcerative Colitis occurs when the immune system of the body is activated chronically and instead of protecting the body from germs and harmful viruses, the self defense abnormally malfunctions and adversely affects the body. During this ‘self defense’ the immune system abnormally and chronically produces immune cells and proteins from these cells which cause uncontrolled inflammation at the spot of activation. This activation of the self dense in the bodies of the patients suffering from Ulcerative Colitis is without the presence of any known virus or any other harmful contagion or bacterial intrusion.
The fact that the immune system is triggered to release all these immune cells and their respective proteins to defend the body against an infection that has never occurred makes Ulcerative Colitis the mystery it is today, researchers are still unable to answer what chemical messengers trigger the immune system to react so abnormally.
Who are most likely to be affected by Ulcerative Colitis?
Ulcerative Colitis is mostly affects people in early adolescent and seldom later in the adulthood, even though it affects One hundred in every million people worldwide; however it is most common in people from the West, Middle east and Jewish decent. It is very