Constipation Nation - Fong, MD Carmen

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Auteur(s) : Fong, MD Carmen - Md, Carmen Fong

Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/11/2024

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 256.0

Dimensions : 21.6 x 14.0 x 19.0

ISBN : 1538186195

Résumé :

Preface
Part I: The Scope of the Problem
Chapter 1. Introduction: Why me?
Chapter 2: What Constipation Is? (Why we doo... and why we don't
Chapter 3. You Are Not Alone (The Statistics)
Chapter 4. History - Constipation Is the Root of All Evils -Or Is It?
Chapter 5. All Animals Poop (A Bit of Natural history and How Pooping Works
Chapter 6. Embryology, Anatomy and Physiology
Chapter 7. Anal Immune System- The Anus Cleans Itself
Chapter 8. Trained to Contain (Potty Training and Poop Shaming)
Chapter 9. Pregnancy and Constipation
Chapter 10. You Can't Poop Out a Bad Diet
Chapter 11. Probiotics and the Gut Microbiome
Chapter 12. Bearing the Load- Exercise
Chapter 13. Coffee or not covfefe?
Chapter 14. Nature calls- Natural Supplements
Chapter 15. Other Treatments People Have Tried (warm water, SNS)
Part II:
Chapter 16. Monday Morning Hemorrhoids and Other Scenarios
Chapter 17. Common complaints and takeaways
Chapter 18. My mother, a Case Study of an Irregular Pooping Cycle (Parkinson's and Constipation)
Chapter 19. Diagnosis
Chapter 20. The COVID connection
Chapter 21. When Surgery is Necessary
Chapter 22. The flip side of the coin (fecal incontinence)
Chapter 23. Bugs or drugs? Infections and Pharmaceuticals
Chapter 24. Mimics of constipation: when to get medical attention
Chapter 25. Recipes Ideas for Constipation
Chapter 26. Conclusion and future directions
The Ten Bowel Commandments
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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Biographie:
Carmen Fong, MD, FACS, is a Chinese American writer and colorectal surgeon. She's a New York City transplant who now lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her wife, daughter, and two cats. Fong is co-director of the Hemorrhoid Centers of America and specializes in office-based proctology, and most recently was an assistant professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She sees patients with constipation every single day. During her training, Fong won multiple awards and presented at national meetings. She's a member of the Society of Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, where she sits on the Ethics and Health Advocacy Committees, and she's a member of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, where she's active on the Young Surgeons Committee. She has been an ambassador for Fight Colorectal Cancer!, a national advocacy group....

Sommaire:

A definitive guide to the science and history of constipation across the nation.
Most Americans have had constipation symptoms at some point in their lives. Statistics show up to 30% of Americans are affected with chronic constipation. This number reaches 60% as we age. At any given time up to 100 million people in the United States experience constipation. During the pandemic, constipation and its related anorectal issues worsened because everyone was sitting at home.
Constipation has affected humans throughout history. Some called it civilization's curse. Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (yes, of Kellogg's cereal fame) promoted cold cereal as a constipation cure. Today, we have more probiotics and diets than you can shake your tushy at, and social media has popularized the Blue Poop Challenge to diagnose gut health. But what does it all mean?
After seeing thousands of patients in her practice as a colorectal surgeon, Dr. Fong realized that she was repeating the same information, sometimes twenty times a day. Yet, this information was not common knowledge. What was found on the Internet was confusing and conflicting, leaving people who Googled their symptoms with more questions than answers. As an academic clinician who has written peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Fong sought information beyond even what the medical textbooks taught her.
Constipation Nation helps readers who would rather research information themselves before seeing a healthcare professional to troubleshoot their poop chute. Drawing from 200 evidence-based sources as well as historical texts, Dr. Fong addresses all aspects of constipation, combining medicine, physiology, anatomy, microbiology, nutrition, history, and social sciences to get to the bottom of it all to explain why we doo. and why we don't.