Rare digestive system diseases and its cure

Rare digestive system diseases can often be dangerous to humans health, and functional digestive system diseases cannot be cured traditionally. No infections, structural disorders can be visible by usual examination, X-ray and laboratory test. If any organ in the digestive systems fails to maintain the coordination with other organs, then the actual problem occurs. Even if a brain controls the functions of nerves of the intestine, it acts abnormally and then creates a significant problem in the digestive system.

Here are some of the rare diseases as mentioned by “The National Institute Of Health Office of Rare Diseases Research.”

 

Achalasia

It happens in the nerves of oesophagus and effects in the lower oesophagal valve. Symptoms of this disease often occur during a meal or after a meal. All suffering person can feel the sensation of passing food (solid or liquid) into the stomach.

Often bland regurgitation, incomplete digestion and whitish saliva with chocking and coughing at night are common symptoms of Achalasia. Some person also suffers from chest pain and heartburn. Due to the food fermentation in oesophagus and retention of acidic food, this heartburn occurs. Weight loss is also a significant symptom of this disease.

Treatment

Oesophageal manometry and barium X-rays are an adequate diagnosis of Achalasia. The heller myotomy procedure and pneumatic dilation are both successful in 80%- 90% cases.

●     Pneumatic dilation: Upper GI endoscopy is the vital part of the pneumatic dilation with a passage of different sized balloons to open the valve by tearing oesophagus. It takes 30 minutes approximately. There are no major complications in this procedure, but a crucial surgery is mandatory.

●     Heller myotomy: This procedure involves muscles cutting through small laparoscopic sites with normal anaesthesia. It requires hospitalization up to two days and the limitation of physical activities for two weeks is necessary. Acid refluxes can be shown due to the deep cutting of muscles.

Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome

It is a disorder with repetition of vomiting and severe nausea with alteration of periods without symptoms. The first phase only includes vomiting that lasts up to a week or a month.

The second phase includes nausea with vomiting, and it continues up to minutes to hours.

In the third phase, the suffering person loses the ability to eat and drink properly, and he or she suffers from cold chills, belly pain, hot sweats, headache and diarrhoea.

Treatment

Supportive care and oral medicine is the primary solution for CVS. A short time treatment and a long-time treatment of drugs are available for the prevention of the vomiting episodes. Antiemetic agents are useful to reduce nausea and vomiting. Antimigraine and antianxiety medicines can also be helpful. If electrolyte imbalance, dehydration and severe irritation of oesophagus occur in the suffering period, then the person must be treated as per doctors recommendation.

Hirschsprung’s disease

The internal and external anal sphincter muscles are the parts of the intestine and pelvic floor accordingly. The internal sphincter prevents the leakage of gas and liquid from the rectum. But a reflex helps to open the rectum when it fills with gas and liquid. Sometimes the nerves of this reflex are not available with the newborn. This disease mainly occurs in childhood sometimes in adulthood also.

Treatment

Necessary diagnosis needs to be made within the first few months or years after birth. But the treatment should be made according to the medical test reports and after doctors confirmation only. Basically, surgery is the only permanent solution though some symptoms still exist after surgery, then only proper medical management is required to recover from the prevailing situation.

There are also some other rare digestive system diseases such as Intestinal pseudo-obstruction, Levator syndrome, Rumination disorder, Short bowel syndrome that have some major and minor harmful impacts on humans health. Whenever any unusual symptoms prevail in your digestive system for a long time, make sure to consult the gastroenterologists in chennai, as they provide the best treatment for such ailments.

source:

• https://www.iffgd.org/other-disorders/rare-diseases.html
• https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/diseases-by-category/6/digestive-diseases
• https://www.fortismalar.com/speciality-doctors/best-gastroenterologist-gastro-surgeons-doctors-chennai
• https://fortisbangalore.com/speciality-doctors/best-gastroenterologist-doctors-specialists-bangalore

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