BCIR surgery allows you to maintain control over your bowel movements
Ulcerative colitis can shape your life in an unfavorable way. It can deprive you from many wonderful things. It gives the real pain and it gradually gets worst day by day. A day consists of 15-20 trips to bathroom and yield a bowl of blood. Abdominal pain, diarrhea, blood stool are symptoms of these disease.
Treatment of colitis: Treatment basically involves prescription drugs to reduce inflammation and promote healing of the ulceration. The treatment may or may not prevent from recurring colitis in the future. Drug that suppress the immune system are sometimes prescribed for severe cases of colitis. But sometimes for some people medication does not work and the last option that remains is surgery.
BCIR or Barnett Continent Intestinal Reservoir surgery is sort of a compromise between having a colostomy bag, which stores waste on the outside, and having an ileoanal anastomosis surgical procedure that allows you to maintain complete control of your bowel movements.
In this type of surgery colon surgeon creates an internal pouch from your small intestine. The pouch takes over the function of the rectum (or colostomy bag) and stores waste inside the body. You then empty the pouch by inserting a catheter (tube) into a stoma (access hole) just above the pubic region several times a day. It is a major modification of the original Pouch Continent Ileostomy, the conventional or traditional ostomy known as the Brooke ileostomy, and the ileoanal J-pouch [also known as the IPAA, the pull-through, and the J pouch].
Generally you have to stay at the hospital for 18-21 days but it can vary according to the circumstance of the individual. The recovery time of BCIR surgery is 12 weeks, but many people recovery sooner than 12 weeks.
What is BCIR?
BCIR is an appliance-free intestinal ostomy. The BCIR itself is a surgically created pouch located on the inside of the abdominal wall made from your small intestine. The function of pouch is to store intestinal waste, which is drained several times a day by inserting a catheter into a small opening in the abdomen called a stoma. It can be a life-changing option for patients who have had removal of their large intestine (colon and rectum) in that it creates a new pathway for the evacuation of waste. The BCIR is 100% internal, or intra-abdominal. It's also 100% appliance free.
Colitis can ruin your happiness. Remember the saying precaution is always better than cure. Although the cause of colitis are unknown till date but it can become manifested due to faulty diet. Fried stuffs and dairy products have to be avoided by the patient.
Treatment of colitis: Treatment basically involves prescription drugs to reduce inflammation and promote healing of the ulceration. The treatment may or may not prevent from recurring colitis in the future. Drug that suppress the immune system are sometimes prescribed for severe cases of colitis. But sometimes for some people medication does not work and the last option that remains is surgery.
BCIR or Barnett Continent Intestinal Reservoir surgery is sort of a compromise between having a colostomy bag, which stores waste on the outside, and having an ileoanal anastomosis surgical procedure that allows you to maintain complete control of your bowel movements.
In this type of surgery colon surgeon creates an internal pouch from your small intestine. The pouch takes over the function of the rectum (or colostomy bag) and stores waste inside the body. You then empty the pouch by inserting a catheter (tube) into a stoma (access hole) just above the pubic region several times a day. It is a major modification of the original Pouch Continent Ileostomy, the conventional or traditional ostomy known as the Brooke ileostomy, and the ileoanal J-pouch [also known as the IPAA, the pull-through, and the J pouch].
Generally you have to stay at the hospital for 18-21 days but it can vary according to the circumstance of the individual. The recovery time of BCIR surgery is 12 weeks, but many people recovery sooner than 12 weeks.
What is BCIR?
BCIR is an appliance-free intestinal ostomy. The BCIR itself is a surgically created pouch located on the inside of the abdominal wall made from your small intestine. The function of pouch is to store intestinal waste, which is drained several times a day by inserting a catheter into a small opening in the abdomen called a stoma. It can be a life-changing option for patients who have had removal of their large intestine (colon and rectum) in that it creates a new pathway for the evacuation of waste. The BCIR is 100% internal, or intra-abdominal. It's also 100% appliance free.
Colitis can ruin your happiness. Remember the saying precaution is always better than cure. Although the cause of colitis are unknown till date but it can become manifested due to faulty diet. Fried stuffs and dairy products have to be avoided by the patient.
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