Types of ulcerative colitis

By: Dr. Alexander Shapsis

TYPES OF ULCERATIVE COLITIS

Proctitis

Symptoms

Rectal bleeding and pain, urgent feeling to use bathroom, inability to move bowels

Proctosigmoiditis

Bloody diarrhea, cramping, tenesmus (feeling of wanting to pass stools)

Symptoms

TYPES OF ULCERATIVE COLITIS

Left-side colitis

Diarrhea with blood, cramping, weight loss, pain

TYPES OF ULCERATIVE COLITIS

Symptoms

Pancolitis

Bouts of diarrhea differing in severity, fatigue, weight loss, night sweats, cramping

TYPES OF ULCERATIVE COLITIS

Symptoms

Fulminant  colitis (acute severe ulcerative colitis)

Severe pain and diarrhea, even life-threatening levels of dehydration and shock

TYPES OF ULCERATIVE COLITIS

Symptoms