Symptoms of diverticular Disease

Many individuals who develop diverticular disease will no display symptoms. In a small percentage of individuals diverticulitis (the active phase of the disease) might occur and the following symptoms may present themselves:

1) Diarrhoea: The diarrhoea is characterized by great, frequent, aqueous movements of entrails. The constant loss of fluid via diarrhoea can lead to dehydration. If this symptom is serious restocking of the fluids is necessary. If this cannot be done in the house an individual my require the hospitalization. OR
Increased Constipation: The constipation is characterized by the lack of the body to eliminate the fecal matter, in spite it individual feeling to recommend it to make thus. The constipation can have like consequence the feeling inflated and lethargic and in extreme cases (if left untreated) can equalize results in toxicity in the body. If the constipation remains untreated if can also worsen or cause the diverticulite in an individual.

2) Abdominal pain or cramps: It is generally the feeling of the pain or tenderness around the abdominal sector (the area or the belly of stomach). The abdominal pain is the most common symptom of the diverticulite and tends to present because tenderness around the lower left side of the abdomen this is in general indicative ignition of the diverticula due to the infection. The severity of the pain is not always indicative the serious one of the condition because a moderate condition can have like consequence the extreme pain, while a serious state can have like consequence the soft pain. Rather the precipitation of the beginning should be employed to judge the severity of the condition. The abdominal pain caused by diverticulite tends to being regular, divided and deeply.

3) Abdominal puffing-up: This symptom is characterized by feelings of sealing and plenitude in the abdominal sector and is usually due to an accumulation in pressure or gas.

4) Steatorrhoea: This limit refers to the presence of the excessive quantities of grease in the stool due to the malabsorption in the gastro-intestinal apparatus. The stools seem to be cumbersome, ignite colors and tend to float in surrounding water. The diarrhoea is a common symptom accompanying the steatorrhoea.

5) Nausea: An inconvenient feeling in the abdomen which occurs because of the ignition of the diverticula and of the presence of the infection in them.

6) Vomiting: Expulsion of the substances or the bile of food via the oesophagus and by the mouth. The vomiting generally follows nausea.

7) Fever: A condition marked by the moist of the temperatures, perspiration, cold hands high and in extreme circumstances the individual can become delirious.

8) Excessive flatulence and distension: The going beyond excessive of gas and accompanied by the puffing-up around the abdominal sector can indicative of diverticulite.

9) Polyuria, Dysuria and Pyuria:
a. Polyuria: An increase in the frequency of the urination C. - with-D. a person is duty outward journey with the toilet more often.
B. Dysuria: Pain on the urination.
C. Pyuiria: The presence of the pus or the white cells of blood in the urine, of urine present often as cloudy if the pus is present.

Ultrasonography - Diverticular disease can be diagnosed Part 6

This test is equally as accurate and non-invasive as a CT scan in diagnosing acute colonic diverticulitis if the operator of the machinery is well trained and reliable. Ultrasonography involves the use of a skin probe that emits sound waves. Like an ultrasounds, these sound waves produce echoes which form a picture of organs and tissues inside the body on an ultrasound machine.

Enema - Diverticular disease can be diagnosed Part 5

Water-soluble contrast enema is another form of enema- this enables imaging of the intraluminal space and consequent diagnosis of diverticular disease.