Top Tips To Treat And Prevent Diverticulosis
If your diet has come up short in the roughage department over the years, you may notice the effects
sometime after your 60th birthday.
That is usually about the time pea-size pouches called diverticula
start to...
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Top Tips To Treat And Prevent Diverticulosis
If your diet has come up short in the roughage department over the years, you may notice the effects
sometime after your 60th birthday.
That is usually about the time pea-size pouches called diverticula
start to form in the walls of the intestines, most often in the lower of the digestive tract.
Sixty-five
percent of us will have developed diverticula, a condition called diverticulosis by the time we turn 85.
Like gray hair, diverticula come with age.
Diverticulosis usually does not hurt.
In fact, most people don t
even know they have it until the telltale pouches show up on an x-ray or during an intestinal exam.
For an unlucky 10 to 25 percent of those with diverticulosis, though, the condition worsens to
diverticulitis.
This means that the usually benign pouches become infected and inflamed, causing rectal
bleeding, constipation, and severe abdominal pain.
Between 15 and 30 percent of people with acute
diverticulitis require surger
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