Yourwellness Magazine Follows Up New NICE Ulcerative Colitis Guideline
London, UK (PRWEB UK) 27 July 2013 -- On the 26th of June 2013, the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) released its first guideline on ulcerative colitis. According to NICE, symptom relief through the range of recommended drugs and treatments available should be the primary outcome for patients with the condition, which is the most common type of inflammatory disease of the bowel. NICE explained that while there is no cure, medical approaches focus on treating the disease to address symptoms, improve quality of life and maintain remission, and so the guideline covers maintaining symptom remission.
The guideline also advises that healthcare professionals should discuss the disease, associated symptoms, treatment options and monitoring with patients and their family members or carers as appropriate, as approximately 10% of inpatients with inflammatory bowel disease report a lack of information about drug side effects on discharge from hospital. NICE added that all of this should also be discussed with the multidisciplinary team at every opportunity. (http://www.nice.org.uk/newsroom/news/SymptomReliefKeyCommonDistressingBowelCondition.jsp)
With this in mind, Yourwellness Magazine took a closer look at bowel cancer, and explored ways in which readers can reduce their risk of the condition. According to Yourwellness Magazine, the symptoms of bowel cancer include blood in the faeces or loose stools for three weeks or more, weight loss without any obvious reason and/or loss of appetite, tiredness or breathlessness (due to small amounts of blood loss leading to anaemia) and pain, bloating or a lump or swelling in the abdomen. (http://www.yourwellness.com/2012/09/the-low-down-on-bowel-cancer/)
Yourwellness Magazine noted that readers experiencing any of the symptoms should consult their GP, and outlined six main ways that readers can reduce their risk of these symptoms occurring in the first place:
1. Eat five or more portions of fruit and vegetables every day and select foods high in fibre such as wholegrain bread, cereals and wholemeal pasta
2. Cut down on consumption of processed meat and red meat
3. Maintain a healthy weight
4. Do 150 minutes of moderate exercise over a week in bouts of 10 minutes or more.
5. Stop smoking and only drink in moderation
6. Get enough vitamin D
To find out more, visit the gateway to living well at http://www.yourwellness.com, or read the latest issue online at http://latestissue.yourwellness.com.
Michael Kitt, Yourwellness Publishing Ltd, http://www.yourwellness.com, 0208 588 9553, [email protected]
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