RUPTURED COLON
February 16th, 2010 by coloninf under Colonic Health. No Comments.
How to Avoid a Ruptured Colon
The colon, though it carries almost all of the solid waste found in our body, also has its weaknesses. If you try to get the colon cleaned too often, it could be damaged in ways that you wouldn’t want to know how. A ruptured colon is something that really could make your life miserable, though it only usually lasts for a few days; still, it’s very, very prone to infection. The question now is what. What causes a ruptured colon? What causes damage to your colon?
The health website, www.organizedwisdom.com, stated that a ruptured colon can be caused when fecal matter, or manure, gets stuck in or caught in the colon causing it to start a big clog, this is a condition that is called, fecal impaction. This impaction of fecal matter in the colon causes pressure to build up in the internal organ which can cause the walls of the colon to tear up little by little. A cause for fecal impaction can be constipation or other disorders that could cause damage to the nerves surrounding the colon. Hirschprung’s disease, a congenital problem affecting infants, Chagas’ disease, and megacolon, an abnormal widening of the colon, are amongst those diseases.
Of course, colon cancer can also cause the colon to be ruptured. When you have colon cancer, polyps (anomalous growths of tissues coming from a mucous membrane) start to spread and multiply faster than the natural pace. They can then be considered as tumors. The tumors might cause the colon to suddenly break because of the inflammation and the pressure it creates. This can also be a cause of fecal impaction. Another fact is that since colon tumors grow rapidly, they can add to the weakening of the walls which are supposedly there to protect the colon.
Diverticulosis, a disease which causes minute parts of the colon to be wrapped around blood vessels, muscles or the organ itself, causing the flow of blood in that portion of the organ to be cut off. This can cause colon rupture. Consequently, this causes that part of the organ to be, weakened, if not, detached and eventually die, causing it to rupture. Ulcerative Colitis (UC) is a disorder which can also cause colon rupture. UC happens when the immune system start to attack the healthy tissues of the large intestine. This causes the membrane of the colon to be fatigued which, if harsh enough, could cause a complete break in the large intestine.
Having a ruptured colon is definitely something that you would want to avoid. To avoid such complications, all you have to do is keep a healthy diet going in your life.
