Sentences with phrase «upper small intestine»

If you are desperate, ask your doctor about Sulcralfate (Carafate): it helps protect and coat the lining of the esophagus, stomach and upper small intestine by shielding their exposure to stomach acid, so that healing can occur.

Gluten is a protein found in wheat, and other similar proteins found in rye, barley and oats that when ingested by people suffering from coeliac disease damages the upper small intestine.

Foods have to be at a certain acidity before they are allowed to pass from the stomach into the upper small intestine.

When stomach acid is too low, this allows larger levels of flora and other organisms to take up residency in the upper small intestine, leading to SIBO, a small intestinal bacteria overgrowth.

The flexible scope is used to examine the esophagus, stomach and upper small intestine (duodenum).

A food allergy, pancreatic insufficiency, and inflammatory bowel disease are common afflictions of the upper small intestine.

It is classically stated that in normal household pet dogs no more than 104 to 105 bacteria per mL of juice are present in the lumen of the upper small intestine.

If you see tarry stool, then the cause is likely originating in the upper small intestine.

A narrow tube is placed directly into the upper small intestine.

This wreaks havoc on your dog's entire GI system, and can impact the stomach and upper small intestine, causing chronic vomiting, and / or the lower intestine, causing diarrhea.

You cat's liver contains a system of branched conduits (its biliary tree) leading to its gall bladder and on out into its upper small intestine (duodenum) through its bile duct.

When vomiting occurs with IBD, it is due to inflammation in the upper small intestine just below the stomach.

These bacteria produce what is called an enterotoxin in the upper small intestine.