What is Colitis? It refers to the inflammation of the colon segment caused by specific or unknown causes, and in clinical practice, it can generally be divided into two types: acute colitis and chronic colitis. Patients with colitis often present symptoms such as diarrhea, mucus bloody stools, abdominal pain, and a sense of urgency after defecation. The disease course is long, with varying severity, and frequent recurrence. Patients with colitis have more bowel movements than usual, difficulty in defecation, loose stools, mostly thin or thick paste-like stools, with mucus or pus and blood in the stool, often accompanied by abdominal pain, bloating, and a sense of urgency after defecation. Colitis is also known as non-specific ulcerative colitis, commonly referred to as "ulcerative colitis" or "chronic non-specific colitis" in China. Ulcers are the main feature of colitis, with inflammation mainly located in the mucosal layer. Most cases of colitis develop slowly, with repeated episodes that gradually worsen, while some cases may occur acutely. The disease course can be continuous, chronic, or alternating between chronic and acute phases, occasionally presenting as an acute outbreak. Therefore, the treatment of colitis also requires a longer period. Many patients do not take colitis seriously and are unwilling to seek active treatment. As a chronic disease, the serious consequence of colitis is its development into colon cancer, so patients should highly value it and actively treat it to avoid delaying the condition.
Clinical manifestations of colitis:
● Diarrhea: Mucoid stools and bloody stools; mild colitis patients experience 3-4 bowel movements per day, severe cases may have dozens of bowel movements or alternate between diarrhea and constipation.
● Abdominal pain: Mild colitis patients may have no abdominal pain or only slight discomfort. Generally, they have mild to moderate abdominal pain, which is intermittent in the lower left abdomen or lower abdomen, involving the entire abdomen with a pattern of pain, urgency for defecation, and relief after defecation.
● Constipation: Colitis patients may have constipation with bowel movements every 4-5 days, with stool resembling sheep droppings, sometimes unable to defecate without laxatives.
● Other symptoms: Bloating, weight loss, fatigue, intestinal sounds, insomnia, excessive dreaming, and cold intolerance.
Common complications of colitis include:
● Massive rectal bleeding: Rectal bleeding is one of the main clinical manifestations of colitis, and the amount of bleeding is also an indicator of the severity of the condition.
● Intestinal stenosis: This often occurs in patients with extensive lesions lasting 5-25 years or more, commonly seen in the left half of the colon, sigmoid colon, or rectum. Clinically, there are usually no symptoms, but severe cases can cause intestinal obstruction. When colitis leads to intestinal stenosis, one must be vigilant for tumors and differentiate between benign and malignant conditions.
● Intestinal perforation: This is often a complication of toxic megacolon and can also occur in severe cases, most commonly in the left half of the colon. The use of corticosteroids is considered a risk factor for intestinal perforation.
● Toxic megacolon: This is a serious complication of colitis, most common in patients with pancolitis, with a mortality rate as high as 44%. Clinical manifestations include rapid deterioration of the condition, obvious toxic symptoms, accompanied by diarrhea, abdominal tenderness, and rebound tenderness, weakened or absent bowel sounds, increased white blood cell count, and easy occurrence of intestinal perforation.
● Colon cancer: About 5% of colitis patients develop cancer, especially those who started from childhood and have a history of more than 10 years.
Treatment for colitis:
Traditional treatment methods for colitis
Experts from Zhengzhou Huashan Hospital's Department of Proctology state that the course of colitis is chronic, with alternating periods of exacerbation and remission, sudden worsening of the condition or initial presentation as explosive onset leading to perforation of the colon transforming into ulcerative colitis, causing massive gastrointestinal bleeding, even triggering heart failure, and timely treatment can prevent death. For the treatment of colitis, there are mainly two types: medical drug treatment and surgical treatment.
General internal treatment:
1. Bed rest and systemic supportive therapy;
2. Medication treatment including sulfasalazine, corticosteroids, immunosuppressants, etc.
General surgical treatment: Approximately 20%-30% of ulcerative colitis patients will eventually require surgery. In the past, surgery was used as the last method to solve the disease after various internal treatments failed, and patients were often in a state of severe malnutrition and weakness due to acute or chronic diseases.
When internal treatment fails for colitis patients, other traditional surgical treatments show no significant effect, at this time, minimally invasive surgery becomes very important. Zhengzhou Huashan Hospital uses the "Olympus electronic colonoscope" to accurately detect the lesion site, then treats colitis thoroughly through the digitalized large intestine hydrotherapy system. Survey data from nearly ten thousand patients shows that this therapy has remarkable effects.
Advanced instrument detection avoids surgical pain:
The "Olympus electronic colonoscope" introduced by Zhengzhou Huashan Hospital's Department of Proctology is one of the best similar gastrointestinal endoscopes in the world, hailed as the "smart electronic gastrointestinal endoscope", playing a decisive role in the diagnosis and treatment of various gastrointestinal diseases such as peptic ulcers, gastrointestinal bleeding, colitis, and colorectal polyps. Through the examination of the "Olympus electronic colonoscope", the lesion site can be directly presented before the doctor, making the surgery more favorable and better avoiding the pain caused by inaccurate localization of the lesion during the operation.
Digitalized large intestine hydrotherapy system - A breakthrough technology in treating colitis:
Research conducted by experts in the Department of Proctology at Zhengzhou Huashan Hospital points out: To completely cure stubborn chronic colitis, it is necessary to thoroughly kill and remove the active toxins and necrotic toxins deep in the submucosa of the intestine, creating a clean and healthy environment for the intestine, thereby ultimately solving the problem of repeated treatment and recurrence for colitis patients. This is also the secret behind the complete cure of colitis without recurrence by the digitalized hydrotherapy system!
The digitalized hydrotherapy system introduced by Zhengzhou Huashan Hospital is automatically controlled by a microcomputer, organically integrating aerospace PID temperature control technology. Through colon dialysis, an effective treatment field is established within the colon cavity, utilizing the potential absorption and excretion functions of the colon to clear harmful metabolic products and toxins from within the colon cavity and on the colon mucosa, combined with targeted Chinese herbal decoctions prepared as ulcerative colitis soup. After using the large intestine hydrotherapy instrument to cleanse the colon and empty the intestines, the soup is injected into the colon via a micro-pump of the machine and retained in the colon for more than 4 hours. After one course of treatment for colitis patients, clinical symptoms disappear, stool routine tests return to normal, and colonoscopic examination shows that the intestinal mucosa lesions have returned to normal, achieving the purpose of treating multiple diseases with different drugs.
Reasons why the digitalized large intestine hydrotherapy system effectively treats ulcerative colitis:
Firstly, because the ulcerative colitis soup itself has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, eliminating corruption and generating new tissue, which can quickly improve symptoms and repair damaged mucosa.
Secondly, administering medication through hydrotherapy increases the depth of administration and the range of contact between the medication and the intestine, allowing the medication to reach the lesion site directly, achieving a higher local concentration of the medication, thoroughly killing and removing active toxins and necrotic toxins deep in the intestinal mucosa sublayer. It also forms a protective membrane in the intestine, promoting the disappearance of edema, inflammation, and ulcers.
Thirdly, hydrotherapy can effectively clean the intestine deeply, helping to remove harmful microorganisms and toxic substances produced on the intestinal cavity and intestinal mucosa that damage the mucosa, making it easier for the body to absorb the medication and function locally, producing better therapeutic effects.
The combination of digitalized hydrotherapy system and specially formulated ulcerative colitis soup can achieve rapid breakdown of bacteria in the intestine, targeted administration of medication, direct treatment of ulcers, and efficient components rapidly stop pain, repair, and protect the areas of erosion, ulcers, and redness in the intestinal mucosa. Verified by multiple authoritative medical institutions, this technology for treating colitis can quickly enhance the immunity of the intestine, strengthen the resistance of the intestine, restore patients' robust physique, prevent recurrence, and is suitable for patients of all age groups without any treatment pain.
In addition, the large intestine hydrotherapy also has the following safety advantages, making it more suitable for a wide range of colitis patients compared to traditional therapies.
Four major advantages of large intestine hydrotherapy:
According to experts from Zhengzhou Huashan Hospital, American large intestine hydrotherapy has the following safety advantages:
1. Water quality control: The most advanced hierarchical filtration purification internationally. This machine uses a hierarchical filtration system. During use, the machine filters through a two-stage filtration system to ensure water quality meets drinking standards. Simply put, the water entering the body can be drunk directly.
2. Water pressure control: High-precision touch-type water pressure control device controls pressure safety through a chip set, keeping water pressure within 10Kpa. If it exceeds 10Kpa, the machine will automatically stop water intake.
3. Water temperature control: Temperature safety device controlled by chips in the machine, electrical isolation heating, water temperature constantly controlled around 35℃, basically the same as body temperature. If it exceeds 40℃, the machine will issue a warning sound.
4. Ozone water control: Using new ozone technology, cleaning and removing surface and private area bacteria, achieving anti-inflammatory and sterilization effects.