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Reply to "Someone please re-name Ulcerative Colitis !!"

"Colitis" means inflamed colon. Anything ending in -itis means inflammation.  My daughter has "Indeterminate Colitis," as her IBD is all colon, but more likely Crohn's type, as skip lesions.

"Colitis" is not IBS: they have no inflammation, so whoever is getting *that* mixed up is REALLY misinformed  

Ulcerative, well... We *do* have ulcers in the colon. It's true! 

Its actually pretty appropriately named, really.  I don't really feel so harshly about the name, but I'm a nurse. To me, it's very descriptive, actually. �� 

But you're allowed to hate it.  

I often just say I have inflammatory bowel disease, because I have a murky new dx anyway; it's just easier.

 

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