The foods you eat may contribute to the development of diverticulitis. Additionally, certain foods may worsen or improve symptoms, such as abdominal discomfort, constipation, diarrhea, or gas.

For some time, medical professionals informed people with diverticulitis to avoid hard foods such as nuts, seeds, and popcorn, due to the difficulty some individuals have digesting these foods.

Many health conditions can affect the descending colon, including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), colon cancer, colonic perforation, and diverticulitis. The colon helps the body absorb water and ...

Diverticula are small sacs that bulge outward through weak spots in the colon's wall, most commonly in the lower part of the colon. When this happens, the person has a condition called diverticulosis.

No specific foods are known to trigger diverticulitis. Experts used to believe that eating popcorn, nuts, corn, and seeds ...

There is still controversy regarding the appropriate management of diverticulitis of the colon in cases when both surgical and conservative treatment may be an option. We performed a systematic ...

J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2007;22(9):1360-1368. Our study has several limitations. The most important limitation is that the comparative studies we included in our review were not randomized ...

Just then Alba got home, and I said, “I have diverticulitis, and I think my colon is perforated. You need to take me to the emergency department." In the emergency department, a CT scan was done which ...

Race and obesity are among the contributing factors to suboptimal bowel preparation for colonoscopy. Predictors of inadequate bowel preparation (IBP) in colonoscopy include use of Medicaid insurance, ...

In CD, colonic localisation (L2+L3) was more frequent than in other age groups at diagnosis ... 15 This allowed us to properly exclude various clinical situations such as diverticulitis and ischaemic ...