Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Got a Gut Feeling About Climate Change? You Just Might.

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.

1 comment:

  1. Drink lots of coconut water and milk. That goes for ulcerative colitis as well.

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