Saffron Cassaday, right, pictured with her husband and stool donor, Al Mukadam. Cassaday did fecal microbiota transplantation, which involves transferring stool from a healthy donor to a patient to ...
Mucus in stool can be a sign of a health issue like irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Ulcerative colitis can cause mucus in the stool due to inflammation and ulcers in the large intestine. Rectal, colon ...
If you have ulcerative colitis (UC), you’ll do anything for relief — maybe even undergo fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), otherwise known as a fecal transplant. The treatment uses a colonoscopy ...
Learn about common early signs of ulcerative colitis, including blood in stool, diarrhea, cramping, bloating, and bowel changes, for a prompt diagnosis and effective treatment.
In patients with active ulcerative colitis (UC) who initiated vedolizumab, loss of vedolizumab in stool samples was noted in more than 75% of patients, with higher rates of drug loss seen in those ...
WAS DIAGNOSED AFTER HAVING A BABY. AFTER HAVING A BABY, YOUR BODY CHANGES. BUT FOR ALISON MURDAUGH, SHE WENT TO THE DOCTOR AFTER REALIZING SOMETHING WASN’T QUITE RIGHT. SO THERE WAS SOME ABNORMAL ...
I first started having symptoms of ulcerative colitis when I was 18. I had just enlisted in the Air Force and was on assignment in South Korea when I started noticing changes in my body. I had bloody ...
Picture this common clinical scenario: A patient has chronic diarrhea, abdominal pain, and weight loss. Blood and stool tests point to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). But which one -- Crohn's ...
Saffron Cassaday had been coping with ulcerative colitis — a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) marked by painful inflammation and ulcers in the digestive tract — since she was diagnosed 15 ...