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Ulcerative Colitis Clinical Manifestations
This disease may vary from mild cases with relatively minimal symptoms to acute and fulminating ones with severe diarrhea and prostration. Diarrhea is characteristic; there may be up to 30 or 40 discharges daily, with blood and mucus in the stool, or blood and mucus may occur without feces. Blood in the stool is the cardinal manifestation of ulcerative colitis. Constipation may occur instead of diarrhea.

Nocturnal diarrhea is usually present when daytime diarrhea is severe. Rectal tenesmus may be severe, and anal incontinence may be present. Cramping lower abdominal pain often occurs but is generally mild. Anorexia, malaise, weakness and fatigability may also be present. A history of intolerance to dairy products can often be obtained, and there is a tendency toward remissions and exacerbations.

Fever, weight loss and evidence of toxemia vary with the severity of the disease. Abdominal tenderness is generally mild and occurs without signs of peritoneal irritation. Abdominal distention may present in the fulminating form and is a poor Prognostic sign. Rectal examination may show perianal irritation, fissures, hemorrhoids, fistulas and abscesses.

DIAGNOSIS
Essentials of diagnosis in Western medicine. Bloody diarrhea with lower abdominal cramps.
Mild abdominal tenderness, weight loss, fever.
Anemia: No stool pathogens.

Specific X-ray and sigmoidoscopic abnormalities.X-ray findings: As shown by X-ray, the involvement may he regional or generalized and may vary from irritability and fuzzy margins to pseudopolyps, decreased size of colon, shortening and narrowing of the lumen, and loss of haustral markings. When the disease is limited to the rectosigmoid area, the barium enema may even be normal.

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