Brought to you by the American Gastroenterological Association
An ostomy is an opening in your stomach that is made by surgery to let solid or liquid waste leave your body.
Iron deficiency anemia is the most common type of anemia that happens when you don’t have enough iron to make healthy red blood cells.
La endoscopia digestiva superior es un procedimiento para ver el tracto digestivo superior, que incluye el esófago, el estómago y el principio del intestino delgado.
A colonoscopy is a procedure performed by a doctor called a gastroenterologist, who uses a colonoscope to look inside the colon and check for diseases like cancer or colitis.
A nutritious gluten-free diet can help correct and prevent nutrient deficiencies that may occur in celiac disease and non-celiac gluten sensitivity.
For people with celiac disease, knowing how to read ingredient labels is essential to avoid gluten in foods, beverages and medicines.
Health At Every Size, or HAES, is a weight-neutral approach to health, independent of weight that can help you achieve health and well-being.
A gluten-free diet involves avoiding wheat, barley, rye, and all foods made with these ingredients.
Also called the non-diet approach, this approach focuses on finding alternatives besides restrictive diets to help with GI symptoms.
A small bowel capsule endoscopy is a procedure to view the small intestine by having the patient swallow a capsule the size of a large pill, which has a camera inside.
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