Gut

Gut's disease overview

What is

What is the intestinal cage?

intestinal cage is a serious surgical emergency and is the leading cause of intestinal obstruction in children. The disease is only common in children, especially young children.

Bowel disease in children is a serious disease related to the intestinal tract, including the small intestine and the large intestine, in which a segment of the upper bowel moves and crawls into the lower bowel section (or vice versa) clog the circulation of the intestine. When the intestine section is accompanied by blood vessels, it is also caught up in, causing the blood vessels to be stuffy damage to the bowel section below and bleeding.

Bowel disease in children is very fast, so if not treated in time, the intestines will be necrotic leading to perforation causing peritonitis, blood infections that are life -threatening.

For mild illness, the disease only occurs temporarily and may end by itself but may recur. Most recurrent disease takes place within the first 24 hours after treatment. When children grow up, the risk of recurrence will decrease.

Causes of Gut's disease

Most cases of intestinal cage cannot identify the cause. Factors may be considered to cause intestinal cages in children, including:

  • Abnormal intestinal contractions during the young period from breastfeeding to weaning. In addition, due to the size of the intestinal segment in children is too different, it is easy to occur.
  • The tumor is benign or more rare is small intestine cancer, polyps in the intestine, Meckel excess bags or infections that cause intestinal contraction disorders
  • Inflammation
  • super virus

    • In adults, the causes of the intestine are:

  • polyps or tumors
  • Sticky scars in the intestine
  • Gastrointestinal surgery
  • Pathology causes bowelitis like Crohn's disease

    • Symptoms of Gut's disease

    The first stage of the disease:

  • Children are uncomfortable due to gastric contractions
  • Sudden crying, limbing the chest due to abdominal pain, recurrence many times
  • Fearing
    • vomiting many times pale, sweat

    The stuffy intestine is more serious:

  • Mucus, blood
  • sometimes feel a tumor protruding in the stomach area
  • tired
  • Fever
    • Dehydration
  • Continuous vomiting

  • cold, pale skin

  • fast, agricultural circuit
  • Fast fast breathing

    • In adults, rare intestinal disease and symptoms of the disease often overlap symptoms of other diseases, so it is often difficult to detect. The most common symptom is abdominal pain. Nausea, vomiting can also occur. Usually the patient shows symptoms within a few weeks before seeing a doctor.

    People at risk for Gut's disease

    Factors that increase the risk of intestinal cage in children:

  • Age: The intestine can occur at any age, but the most infected age is between 3 and 6 months of age
  • Sex: Boys are at risk of 2 to 3 times higher than girls, especially plump boys
  • Intelligence in children occurs more in autumn and winter

    • innate intestinal structure

  • Having suffered from bowel disease before
  • Having immunodeficiency syndrome
  • Family factors: There are siblings who have had intestinal diseases

    • Prevention of Gut's disease

    Once the intestinal cage, children need to be prevented from progressing or recurring by:

  • Re -examination on schedule to be monitored and health status
  • Obery of the doctor's treatment, not arbitrarily taking the drug without being indicated or arbitrarily quitting the prescription.
  • When children have any abnormalities such as continuous discomfort, abdominal feet, vomiting, bloating, ... must take the child to the hospital immediately so that the doctor can promptly intervention. If you are late, your child has no chance of non -surgical treatment and may suffer a major surgery to remove or even cut part of the intestine.

    • Diagnostic measures for Gut's disease

    Because children are too young to talk, the diagnosis is often difficult.

    The doctor will diagnose preliminary through ornamental and clinical examination.

    Common scene:

  • Children who are eating normally suddenly cry, stop breastfeeding, and pale skin signaling the guts begins to be inserted together. After that, the child temporarily stopped crying, even sucking, but when the pain was relapsed, he cried, screamed, puffed out, stopped feeding, vomiting many times.
  • A few hours later: Children are tired, pale, pale.
  • After about 6-12 hours: Children go to the red blood stool with mucus, cold skin, dry lips, fast circuit, sunken eyes.
  • After about 24 hours but have not been treated: children will vomit continuously, bloating, cold skin, pale, fast shallow circuit, shallow breathing, signs of intestines catching necrotic head.

    • Other scenic diseases: For children with fever, cough, viral infection or children who have had intestines, the sudden crying child is also a sign of Doubt cage.

    If a child has a fever, blood loss or if the above symptoms have occurred continuously for hours, children need surgery immediately for treatment.

    If your child has a more stable condition, the doctor will perform tests:

  • X-ray: In this process, a barium liquid is given through the small intestine, then the doctor will proceed to take a picture. Bari substance helps to diagnose and pressure the small intestine.
  • Abdominal X-rays
  • CT scan of abdominal scanner

    • Abdominal ultrasound

    Gut's disease treatments

    If the child comes early:

  • Remove the steam cage: The doctor puts a small catheter into the rectum, under the guidance of the local X-ray machine, the doctor will inflate gradually into the large intestine with a pressure moderate to stretch the cage intestine until the cage is completely removed this treatment has a high success rate and children do not need to go through pain with surgery.
  • Put the nasal - stomach catheter: Helps reduce the pressure in the small intestine

    • If the child is late for more than 6 hours or the tips to remove the cage with a failure:

  • Surgery to remove the cage intestine
  • Antibiotics to treat infections
  • If the child is late for more than 24 hours: surgery to cut the necrotic intestine. However, the care and resuscitation after surgery is very difficult and complicated, children are easily dead due to exhaustion and severe pneumonia.

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