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Health Tip: Caring for Your Bowels

By HealthCast on March 25, 2010

An illness or injury can affect the nerves that help control your bowels, sometimes resulting in diarrhea, constipation or incontinence. Your doctor may recommend a daily bowel-care routine.

The U.S. National Library of Medicine offers these suggestions:

Schedule a time each day to try to have a bowel movement. Opportune times may include just after a meal, or after your morning shower.
Don’t rush the process. Relax and be patient, and make sure you wait up to 45 minutes, if necessary.
Gently rubbing your belly may help stools pass through the colon.
Always use the toilet as soon as you feel the need to move your bowels. Don’t wait.

Source: HealthDay

Are You Living with Psoriasis?

A growing knowledge of the skin disease called psoriasis is leading to greater treatment choices, including personalized therapies, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reports.

Psoriasis is an immune system disorder that causes overproduction of skin cells, resulting in scaling, pain, swelling, redness and heat. The condition affects about 7.5 million Americans.

“As we better understand the disease, researchers know more about what specific factors to target in order to develop effective treatments,” FDA dermatologist Dr. Melinda McCord said in an agency news release.

There is no cure for psoriasis, so the main goals of treatments are to stop skin cell overproduction and reduce inflammation. Current therapies include medicines applied to the skin (topical), light treatment (phototherapy), or drugs taken by mouth or given by injection.

Doctors used to take a step-by-step approach, starting patients with mild to moderate psoriasis on topical therapy. If that was ineffective, doctors moved on to phototherapy or drug treatment.

Health Tip: Caring for Your Bowels

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