What are the effective drugs for treating colitis

Colitis is a relatively common intestinal disease in daily life. It is very harmful to patients and often causes constipation, diarrhea, abdominal pain, etc. If you have colitis, you must treat it in time to avoid greater harm. First of all, you must pay attention to diet and health care, get enough rest, avoid mental tension, and in terms of diet, don’t eat hard foods, drink less milk and dairy products. For those with severe symptoms, you should eat some vegetarian food. In addition, if there is inflammation, you should carry out anti-inflammatory treatment in time. Vegetarian medicine is also a common drug. Treatment can be carried out under the guidance of a doctor.

Treatment of colitis

(1) Diet:

Get enough rest and avoid fatigue and excessive mental stress. Give less irritating, easy to digest, nutritious food, try to avoid foods containing rough fiber, and temporarily stop eating milk and dairy products. Appropriately replenish fluids and electrolytes, and supplement vitamin B and calcium. Take iron supplements and folic acid to treat anemia. Patients with severe illness, frequent diarrhea, and severe malnutrition can be given a period of gastrointestinal elemental diet or parenteral nutrition.

(2) Anti-infective drugs:

Salicyloylsulfapyridine is effective in treating various types of colitis and preventing complications. Some cause nausea, vomiting, headache, rash, granulocytopenia, anemia and poor liver function. If it is ineffective or has adverse reactions, metronidazole can be used instead. Neomycin and phthalidazole are also effective.

(3) Hormone therapy:

Adrenal cortical hormones, hydrocortisone and prednisone can improve the general condition, relieve the course of the disease, reduce the number of bowel movements, alleviate recurrent symptoms and increase appetite. However, the effect is not good for some patients, and it may cause ulcer perforation, bleeding and slow healing. It is now believed that the scope of application is small. It can significantly alleviate symptoms and improve the condition of patients with acute outbreaks or severe early attacks. However, the effect is not satisfactory for long-term recurrent attacks. The corticotropin unit is dissolved in glucose solution and dripped intravenously. After the symptoms improve, it is switched to intramuscular injection. Hydrocortisone can be given intravenously, and the dosage can be gradually reduced after symptoms are relieved. Corticosteroids are better than cortisone in relieving symptoms, but are not as effective as cortisone in maintaining relief. This treatment should not be continued for more than 2 weeks if there is no improvement in symptoms.

(4) Immunosuppressive drugs:

Azathioprine, taken once a day, can change the course of the disease and inhibit clinical manifestations, but it cannot change the underlying disease. It is often used in the quiescent phase to reduce recurrences, but it may also cause poisoning, so caution should be exercised. 6-Mercaptopurine (6-MP) combined with hormones can alleviate symptoms.

(5) Antidiarrheal drugs:

It can reduce the number of defecation and relieve abdominal pain. Compound phenethylpiperidone, codeine and compound camphor tincture are commonly used. Antidiarrheal drugs may cause toxic megacolon in acute ulcerative colitis and should be used with caution. Sedatives and antispasmodics may also be given.

(6) Retention enema:

It is commonly used for rectal and sigmoiditis to relieve symptoms and promote ulcer healing.

I believe that through the simple introduction of the treatment of colitis in this article, everyone must have a corresponding understanding. The treatment of colitis is very critical to the grasp of time. If everyone is aware of the symptoms of colitis in the early stages of life, then in the later stage of treatment, both the choice of methods and the grasp of time will be more advantageous.