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Digestive disorders are basically diseased states of the organs that are involved with
digestion. So that includes your mouth, your esophagus, your stomach, your small bowel,
and your large bowel, *** and ***. So some of the most common digestive disorders
are peptic ulcer disease, and that's when we develop a little sore inside of our stomach
or our small bowel. And that could be related to an infection, or it could be related to
aspirin, or nonsteroidals which we take for joint pain.
Other things could be gastroesphogeal reflux, which is very common. And that happens when
our gastro contents, which is very acidic, washes up into our esophagus, and our esophagus
does not like that acidity. So we wind up presenting with pain, or heat, or a burning
sensation that goes up from our abdomen up to our chest. Other things such as constipation,
where we are not going to the, we're not emptying out our bowels at an appropriate amount. Or
diarrhea where we are emptying them out too quickly.
The other thing is colon cancer, which is fairly common but with screening colonoscopies
are actually doing a good job with decrease the amount of colon cancer. Hepatitis, and
hepatitis C and B are viral infections of the liver, pancreatitis is inflammation of
the pancreas, and that can come from drinking too much alcohol, or from other viral causes.
So what's involved with the digestive system is all the organs that are involved with digestion.