Patients with gastro-entities on rise

Noman Mosharef :
Public health experts have expressed concern over the rise of the patients with various stomach problems in the country.
Irregularities of food habit is the main cause of stomach problems they said adding that one specific problem named Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) has made serious health crisis in modern life.
Though the exact cause of inflammatory bowel disease remains unknown, but the busy schedule of urban life, changing lifestyle and diversified food habit are more responsible for IBD. In this situation the doctors and public health experts suggested to habituate with homemade food leaving hotel, restaurants and fast food.
Previously, diet and stress were suspected, but now doctors know that these factors may aggravate but aren’t the cause of IBD. One possible cause is an immune system malfunction. When your immune system tries to fight off an invading virus or bacterium, an abnormal immune response causes the immune system to attack the cells in the digestive tract, too. Heredity also seems to play a role in that IBD is more common in people who have family members with the disease. However, most people with IBD don’t have this family history.
There are two types of IBD. One is Ulcerative colitis. This condition involves inflammation and sores (ulcers) along the superficial lining of your large intestine (colon) and rectum. Another one is Crohn’s disease. This type of IBD is characterized by inflammation of the lining of your digestive tract, which often can involve the deeper layers of the digestive tract.
Inflammatory bowel disease symptoms vary, depending on the severity of inflammation and where it occurs. Symptoms may range from mild to severe. Signs and symptoms that are common to both Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis include: Abdominal cramps and pain, diarrhea that may be bloody, severe urgency to have a bowel movement, fever, weight loss, loss of appetite, iron deficiency anemia due to blood loss.
Sheikh Russel National Gastroliver Institute and Hospital Director Professor Dr Faruk said, comparatively young people, age 16-40 is more affected by the IBD. This aged people are more indifferent their lifestyle. They are not serious about their daily meal also.
He said, dietary patterns are associated with a risk for ulcerative colitis.In particular, subjects who were in the highest tertile of the healthy dietary pattern had a 79% lower risk of ulcerative colitis.
Dr Faruk said, gluten sensitivity is common in IBD and associated with having flareups. Gluten sensitivity was reported in 23.6 and 27.3% of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis patients, respectively.
A diet high in protein, particularly animal protein, and/or high in sugar may be associated with increased risk of inflammatory bowel disease and relapses, he added.
Those who are affected or who are not, for all to advise that to drink sufficient water, fiber food and of course try the best to have homemade food, he further said.