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How Can Colitis Be Treated?

Posted on Thu, 1 Jun 2017

Question: I would like to about drugs for colitis imodium seems to a short fix and is only very temporay---always end up in er and urgent care a 3-4 wk ordeal md to seen 5wks after onset of problem

Answered by Dr. Lekshmi Rita Venugopal (41 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Treatment of colitis depends on cause

Detailed Answer:
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Colitis is inflammation of the colon(large intestine).There are several causes for colitis like infection including c.difficle, inflammatory bowel disease like chron's and ulcerative colitis, allergy etc.
Treatment depends on the cause of the colitis.
Imodium just gives symptomatic relief for diarrhea, but do not treat the underlying colitis.
Metronidazole is an antibiotic, that is used in the treatment of both Infectious and Inflammatory colitis.

Please provide me further information regarding your diagnosis and specific type of colitis, so that I can give you detailed answer regarding treatment options.

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Dr.Lekshmi

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