ulcerative colitis

Ulcerative colitis is one of two similar forms of chronic inflammatory disease of the bowel (the other is Crohn’s disease). Ulcerative colitis affects the large bowel. There are periods without symptoms, but also phases of pain in the left abdomen, diarrhoea and weight loss that may be so severe that people cannot go to work or even need to go to the hospital.

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