Colitis is Inflammation of the Colon. When you get treatment from the Doctor, the main method is the use of anti-inflammatory drugs. These either calm down the inflammation in a specific area for which Mesalazine is commonly used, or to turn off the body’s immune reactions with a drug like Azathioprine. These are effective ways of treatment but Drugs do tend to have side effects when used long term and they are not addressing the root causes of the inflammation.

Inflammation is the immune systems way of alerting you to that fact that something in the body is wrong. The symptoms are often localised, however the problem is a whole body issue which is just showing up in one place – probably where there was already a genetic predisposition to weakness. Often with Colitis there is tiredness associated and also aching joints which are signs of the inflammation showing up in other areas of the body, these symptoms are low level minor pains but are a sign of the underlying unbalance. The body has shifted in to a state of high alert and chronic inflammation is present, when this builds up to an excess then suddenly a Flare Up arrives. It may be stress, or something you eat or drink that triggers the Flare but the underlying situation was already there and these events just triggered things to break out.

The trigger mostly gets the blame for the Flare up, but really it is just the last straw in a cascade of events. Obviously if you know what has triggered a flare before then it is well worth avoiding that thing but it is also very necessary to address the underlying situation.

A lifestyle that has high stress, little exercise and bad diet sets the scene for inflammation to build up inside and when this reaches an unsustainable level then disease symptoms – a flare up – appears. Conversely a lifestyle including moderate exercise, time for relaxation and an anti-inflammatory diet will build up health reserves and reduce levels of inflammation in the body as a whole, thereby reducing the probability of a flare up.

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