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Kitty4670
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23 Dec 2022, 9:51 pm

Is Ulcerative Colitis different than Colitis? I wish I knew this already. I have Colitis since early 2000s, I don’t get it too often :D



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27 Dec 2022, 11:07 pm

Colitis is simply bowel inflammation. A diagnosis of colitis means they saw inflammation.

Over long periods colitis might indicate inflammatory bowel disease, two forms of which are ulcerative colitis or crohns disease. Ulcerative colitis is usually a specific autoimmune disorder where your immune system sees your colon as a hostile entity and attacks it. Crohns disease is a closely related disease where it is thought the immune system is targeting normal gut bacteria erroneously. Crohns disease also commonly also targets the ileum, the end of the small intestine.