Recently, the level of life of modern man has become increasingly influenced by diseases of the digestive system. Among them, a dangerous inflammatory disease of the colon, such as ulcerative colitis, is often diagnosed.
It has been known to mankind since ancient times, but so far many patients are interested in what is dangerous and what consequences this intestinal ailment, which has no fully clarified etiology, can give.
For a patient diagnosed with this disease, the consequences may be the most unfavorable, from loss of working capacity and lifelong disability, to a lethal outcome. This is usually brought about by the complications that this disease gives.
What is the danger of ulcerative colitis?
In the event that a person who has a history of such intestinal pathology will admit errors in the prescribed treatment, he can expect and almost complete obstruction of the direct part of the colon, and breakthrough bleeding associated with perforation of the walls of this digestive organ.
Such complications of this dangerous disease mostly lead to loss of the patient's ability to act, so if the disease, despite ongoing therapy, continues to progress, it is almost always disability.
For ulcerative colitis, indications for the referral of the patient to the ITU for the purpose of disability will be:
- Severe course of the disease:
- Absence of a positive effect on the treatment;
- Poorly functioning intestinal stoma due to ulcerative colitis and impaired digestion;
- Neuro-like conditions and severe neuropsychiatric disorders.
All these indications are the basis for prescribing a disability to a patient.
Intestinal complications of nonspecific ulcerative colitis
The most dangerous complications of NNC, which almost always lead a patient to disability, are the following:
- Massive, almost impossible to stop, bleeding;
- Occurred due to hormonal resistance( ineffective treatment), perforation of any part of the large intestine and toxic dilatation.
Also, in the event that ulcerative colitis develops totally for a long time( up to 10 years), the disease forecast is colon cancer. To ensure that a patient with a history of a disease such as the NNAC has a disability group assigned to him, he needs to undergo diagnostic tests such as immunological, biopsy and colonoscopy.
Group of disability with nonspecific ulcerative colitis
When appointing a patient with a disability in this pathology of the digestive organ, the specialist is based on the following criteria:
- group I is put in when ulcerative colitis has a very severe course and inflammatory defects have spread over virtually the entire area of the intestine. Also here are those patients who completely or partially removed the rectum and the complications that arise for this reason require extraneous care. The prognosis in this case is very disappointing and patients need constant monitoring from a specialist.
- The second group on disability, prescribed for ulcerative colitis, includes patients with a complication such as the intestinal stroma. Also, it is prescribed with a significant spread of lesions on the mucosa of the large intestine, severe and progressive course of the disease and the absence of any effect of the treatment;
- III group of disability is appointed in the case when the intestinal lesion is distal, characterized by frequent exacerbations occurring up to 3 times a year and continuing, despite adequate treatment, up to a month. With such a course of ulcerative colitis, rational employment for VC is not possible.
Disability with diagnosed ulcerative colitis may not be prescribed if the patient's conditions and types of work are not contraindicated for this intestinal pathology.
How to avoid disability with ulcerative colitis?
To avoid possible disability in this disease, you should follow certain precautions and avoid the development of complications that are the consequences of this disease:
- Fighting the risk factors that contribute to the development of this pathology. Among them, stress, food allergies and addictions are important;
- Timely diagnosis and correct treatment of ulcerative colitis also insure the patient from receiving a disability group for this disease;
- A good prognosis for this inflammatory pathology of the intestines is promoted by annual sanatorium treatment;
- An important factor for preventing the occurrence of various complications of the disease will be rational employment.
Only if all these preventive measures are followed, a favorable prognosis of the disease is possible.