A study by the University of Zurich has found heatwaves can get one's bowels in an uproar.
Patients with inflammatory bowel disease are at greater risk of relapse
during heat waves, finds a study that could have significant
implications in an era of climate change.
Risk of hospitalisation for an IBD flare went up by nearly five percent
for every day that a heat wave lasted, retrospective data from over
2,000 patients showed.
By around the same margin, patients with infectious gastroenteritis
(IG) were also more likely to have a flare during a heat wave compared
with a control group of patients admitted with non-infectious intestinal
inflammation.
In IG patients the heat wave effect was strongest after a seven-day lag
whereas for IBD flares the effect was immediate, the authors from the
University Hospital of Zurich found.
Drink lots of coconut water and milk. That goes for ulcerative colitis as well.
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