This is a form of inflammatory disease affecting the colon. It leads to loose stools often mixed with blood. A colonoscopy is needed for diagnosis. There are good long term treatment options and the disease can be controlled very well. Newer biological drugs have completely changed the treatment landscape.
You can contact us in case you have uncontrolled disease and wish to consider biological drugs. Patients with long standing disease also need a colonoscopy once every two years since there is a risk of colon cancer in these patients. We use advanced colonoscopy techniques including narrow band imaging and magnification high resolution endoscopy that makes detection of early cancer easier.
You can read more about ulcerative colitis by visiting these sites.
https://gi.org/topics/inflammatory-bowel-disease/
https://www.uptodate.com/contents/ulcerative-colitis-beyond-the-basics
https://www.uptodate.com/contents/inflammatory-bowel-disease-and-pregnancy-beyond-the-basics
https://www.uptodate.com/contents/inflammatory-bowel-disease-and-pregnancy-beyond-the-basics
https://www.crohnscolitisfoundation.org/science-and-professionals/patient-resources/patient-brochures
https://patient.gastro.org/inflammatory-bowel-disease-ibd/