It can be difficult to track your symptoms particularly during dietary or treatment trials. This bowel symptom diary using the Bristol Stool Scale can help.
Many patients point to their throat when describing a swallowing difficulty, where they feel a persistent irritation or lump. This is also known as globus pharyngeus. These research trials in adults and children describe the use of Argon Plasma Coagulation to cure troublesome ‘lump in throat’ symptoms which in some patients seem to be linked with a patch of stomach lining or mucosa high in the oesophagus.
Microscopic, Collagenous and Lymphocytic Colitis
Information sheet on an increasingly recognised cause of diarrhoea
This paper describes case histories of an under-appreciated condition where chronic use of painkillers leads to more pain.
Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Information sheet on probably the commonest cause of abnormal liver function tests.
An often overlooked cause of chronic abdominal pain, this paper describes the condition including its natural history.